Land-grabbing, banditry, and illegal mining are said to be some of the reasons for the insecurity and communal crisis ravaging the North-Central region. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement (North-Central), Dr Abiodun Essiet made the disclosure while addressing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. She said their engagement with the media focused on insecurity. The SA, who was flanked by her counterparts from the North-west, South-east, and South-west zones,...

The Adamawa Jail Delivery Committee (JDC), led by the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Hafsat Abdulrahman, has discharged 55 inmates after their cases were reviewed by the committee. The committee, however, convicted 32 inmates awaiting trial and granted bail to 40 others. Some of the discharged cases were based on health grounds and disproportionate sentencing, while several civil cases were reviewed and reduced. The committee conducted its routine legal operation aimed at de-congesting correctional centres across...

…Calls For Mutual Respect, Partnership In Tackling Menace Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation has said that terrorism in Nigeria is multifaceted and requires mutual respect, partnership and cooperation in addressing it. The organisation noted that adopting the conventional ‘war approach’ is not the way to solve the terrorism challenge currently going on in Nigeria. A press statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, stated that in conventional war, the ‘enemy’ could...

Former Vice National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Eddy Olafeso, and former zonal organising secretary, South-West, PDP, Chief Taiwo Kuye have vowed that nothing will stop the November 15 and 16 national convention of the party from holding. Olafeso, who spoke in an interview while reacting to the Abuja High Court judgment halting the scheduled national convention, stated that the judgment is inconsequential in view of the previous Supreme Court judgment that...