Suspected Armed Herders Abduct 19 Passengers In Benue 

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaSuspected Armed Herders Abduct 19 Passengers In Benue 

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 24, 2025

…As Hoodlums Kill A Youth Mobiliser Nineteen persons have been abducted along the Makurdi – Naka Road, less than three kilometers to Naka, the headquarters of Gwer-West Local Government Area (LGA) by suspected herders. The incident which took place between 10am and 11am in the morning of Thursday, involving two vehicles has left residents of Naka town stunned. The 19 persons were abducted while they were traveling in two separate commercial vehicles, each heading in...

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FG Announces Schedule Of Activities For Youth Empowerment

NewsNigeriaPoliticsFG Announces Schedule Of Activities For Youth Empowerment

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 24, 2025

The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Youth Development (FMYD) has announced the schedule of activities for Youth Economic Intervention and De-Radicalization Programme (YEIDEP). A press release by the ministry indicated that the programme is aimed at supporting youth farmers, food, and agro-allied entrepreneurs in Nigeria. According to the ministry, the application period for the programme will end on May 31, 2025. It noted that following the application deadline, the ministry will undertake the...

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Niger Delta Youths Laud Kyari’s Leadership, Condemn Calls For His Probe  

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNiger Delta Youths Laud Kyari’s Leadership, Condemn Calls For His Probe  

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 24, 2025

The Niger Delta Youth Congress (NDYC) has lauded the exceptional leadership of the immediate past Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari and condemned calls for his probe. In a press statement on Thursday by the group’s National Coordinator, Comrade Israel Uwejeyan,  NDYC stated that the call for his probe is ill-advised and an orchestrated campaign of calumny aimed at discrediting Kyari’s legacy of reforms in the oil...

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PDP Laments Over Oborevwori’s Defection To APC

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPDP Laments Over Oborevwori’s Defection To APC

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 24, 2025

… Promises To Take Over Delta Structure Immediately The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lamented over the defection of the Delta State governor, Sheriff Oborevwori to the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing it as very sad and unfortunate. Reacting on the defection while presenting a certificate of return to Chief Jude Ezenwafor, the PDP candidate for Anambra State governorship election scheduled for November 8, the Acting National Chairman of PDP, Amb. Umar Damagum, explained why...

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Lawmakers Frustrated, As Rivers Sole Administrator Shuns House Invitation 

NewsNigeriaPoliticsLawmakers Frustrated, As Rivers Sole Administrator Shuns House Invitation 

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 24, 2025

House of Representatives members expressed frustration over the failure of the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas to honour another scheduled meeting. Recall that the House Committee on Rivers State Oversight had invited Ibas to discuss important matters regarding the state’s governance, but once again, he failed to attend. It was reported that Ibas had originally been scheduled to meet with the committee on April 17, 2025. However, he sent a request...

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Government Pitches State Police as Solution As Terrorist Attacks Surge

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaGovernment Pitches State Police as Solution As Terrorist Attacks Surge

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 24, 2025

Nigeria is considering a major change in its police system, as President Bola Tinubu pushes to introduce state-controlled police forces to tackle the country’s worsening security crisis. Rising Insecurity Sparks Reform Across Nigeria, violent attacks, kidnappings, and insurgency have become disturbingly common. In the North, Islamist terrorists and bandits continue to raid villages, impose fines, abduct residents, and demand ransoms. In the Southeast, separatist groups are blamed for killing civilians and security personnel, and enforcing...

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IGP Orders Withdrawal Of Mobile Police Officers From VIPS

NewsNigeriaPoliticsIGP Orders Withdrawal Of Mobile Police Officers From VIPS

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 24, 2025

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the withdrawal of mobile police officers from VIPs. In a statement by the spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Muyiwa Adejobi, said the move is part of the reorganization of the Police Mobile Force (PMF). The statement read in part: “He expressed concern over the diversion of PMF personnel to non-core roles, including escort and guard duties for private individuals and VIPs, a trend which...

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Suspended State Lawmakers in Zamfara Form Parallel Legislative Assembly

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSuspended State Lawmakers in Zamfara Form Parallel Legislative Assembly

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 24, 2025

Ten members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, recently suspended for allegedly speaking out on the security challenges affecting their constituents, have formed a parallel legislative assembly in the state. The lawmakers, who had earlier reaffirmed the selection of Bashar Aliyu Gummi as Speaker following the impeachment of former Speaker Biliyaminu Ismail Moriki by a majority of the House last year over alleged high-handedness and misconduct, convened in Gusau on Wednesday to deliberate on...

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FG Releases ₦50bn to Settle University Staff Earned Allowances

EducationNewsNigeriaPoliticsFG Releases ₦50bn to Settle University Staff Earned Allowances

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 24, 2025

In a major move to improve staff welfare and boost confidence in Nigeria’s education system, the Federal Government has released ₦50 billion to academic and non-academic staff of federal universities. The Minister of State for Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, made this known on Wednesday in Abuja through a statement issued by the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Folasade Boriowo. Dr Alausa described the payment as a promise fulfilled by President Bola Tinubu, targeting...

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Ribadu: We Inherited a Mess, But We’re Fixing It

NewsNigeriaPoliticsRibadu: We Inherited a Mess, But We’re Fixing It

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 24, 2025

The National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has admitted that President Bola Tinubu’s administration met the country in a very bad shape, security-wise, but insists that things are getting better, slowly but surely. Ribadu made this known during a high-level security meeting at the Benue State Government House in Makurdi, where he met with leaders and stakeholders to address the disturbing wave of violence in the state. In his words, “We will defeat it. The...

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