Three flashpoints have been identified as the strongholds of the Boko Haram insurgents in the North East, following a week-long engagement with the service chiefs and other stakeholders in the region. The areas are Lake Chad fringes, Sambisa Forest, and the Mandara mountains – all located in Borno State. The engagement which took place on the instance of President Muhammadu Buhari also had the north-east governors in attendance. “The President has assured the people of Borno State and indeed the north-eastern subregion that he will do everything possible within his reach to ensure that lives and property of people living…
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Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Sunday insisted that the incessant Southern Kaduna crisis will stop when people in the region are willing to embrace peace. El-Rufai said that no number of military troops can resolve the crisis in Southern Kaduna, adding that it is far more complicated than what is obtained in other parts of Nigeria. Appearing on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics, the governor also vowed to deal with perpetrators of crimes in the region, adding that crises in Kaduna are a mix of ethno religious reasons and banditry. According to El-Rufai: “The Southern Kaduna crisis is far…
THE cold war among members of the State Working Committee, SWC of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State, nosedived Sunday as some members of the committee insisted that the purported sacking of the chairman of the party, Jones Erue stands with a former deputy chairman of the party, Elvis Ayomanor currently acting as chairman. Ayomanor was announced as acting chairman of the party after a section of the SWC announced the suspension of Erue for alleged financial misappropriation, failure to convene meetings of the SWC or State Executive Committee and unilaterally suspending seven members of the SWC. Erue…
Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has called for security reform to end spate of insecurity across the Nigeria, lamenting that state governors’ security votes, which is put at N208.8bn annually outweighs the annual budget of police, army, as well as air force and navy combined in the last five years. According to CISLAC, for Nigeria to get out of the current security challenges, the country must embrace a security reform, where security votes are channelled directly to funding the security agencies, rather than being stolen by state executives. Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Ibrahim Musa Rafsanjani stated this in…
The attention of the Special Adviser to the Governor of Ekiti State on Tertiary Education has been drawnto a recent press statement by the Ekiti State University branch of the Academic Staff Union ofUniversities.Ordinarily, there wouldn’t have been any need to join issues with ASUU EKSU in the public domainsince the State Government has engaged in productive discussions with the Union since the inceptionof the Administration of His Excellency, Dr John Kayode Fayemi, the Governor of Ekiti State and theChairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum.However, certain portions of the ASUU press statement sought to portray the Ekiti State Governmentas “…
Two Islamic teachers who were convicted for defiling four under-aged girls in their Islamiyya school, bursts in tears as they were sentenced to 22 years jail term by a Minna Chief Magistrate Court II. The two Islamic teachers, Hassan Bilyaminu and Abdullahi Bilyaminu were convicted by Hajiya Hauwa Baba Yusuf, on two count charges which bothered on act of gross indecence and sexual abuse.According to the first information report (FIR), made available in court by the police prosecutor, Sgt Bello Mohammed, and obtained by CAPITAL POST, the offences were punishable under section, 285 of the penal code law and 19(2)…
Hundreds of catfish accounts with photos of very beautiful Arewa girls are being opened daily on social media, owing to fraudulent activities of internet scammers and imposters. In a highly online fraudulent technique known as: “Catfish,” an internet fraudster assumes false accounts on social networking sites for the sake of growing followers and developing online relationships with strangers. Usually, the perpetrators use someone else’s picture instead of their own and pretend to be that person. Investigations by Arewa Agenda indicated that after they must have attracted a substantial number of followers, they sell the account, which can go for thousands…
As churches reopen in Ekiti State after five months of shutdown by the government as parts of efforts to contain the spread of Coronavirus pandemic, a clergyman, Rufus Osunlade, has called for concerted efforts to ensure strict compliance. Osunlade, the Assistant Pastor In-Charge of Province 7 of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Ado Ekiti, made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti. The clergyman, who thanked government at various levels, particularly the Ekiti State Government, for providing the necessary precautions to ensure smooth reopening of worship centres, admonished worshippers for absolute…
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have foiled the transfer of N25 million from a Nigeria-based bank account and $220,000 from an international account with the arrest of a seven-man fraud syndicate based in Lagos. The fraud was foiled last week, with the members of the syndicate also arrested. The arrest by the Decoy Team of the RRS a few days ago, was based on the intelligence it received on the activities of a fraud syndicate based in Lagos, led by one Osita Nwafor, alias Ossy. Nwafor, 45, was picked up in the gang’s…
A Civil Society Organisation, Media Initiative against Injustice, Violence and Corruption, says it is set to sue the Governor of Imo State, Chief Hope Uzodinma, over what it described as a violation of the law establishing the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission. The Executive Director of MIIVOC, Dr. Walter Duru, disclosed this in a statement in Owerri on Sunday. According to Duru: “Seven months into the present administration, no Board has been inaugurated for the Oil Commission and everything about its operations is opaque. Seven months into the administration, statutory funds of the Commission, being 40% of the…
