AFTER surviving the insecurity and other socio-economic challenges of 2022, death is the last thing on the minds of most people who crossed over to January 2023. However, less than 20 days into 2023, the Nigerian polity is littered with untimely and aborted dreams. No fewer than 508 people, across the country, have had their … [Read more…]
The Federal Government, FG, has proposed to spend over N30 billion on the installation of Acoustal Sensing Security surveillance system for the Abuja (IDU)-Kaduna railway, including other items in the 2023 budget. Other items include: completion of the Abuja-Kaduna railway; completion of the Lagos-Ibadan and its associated additional works; rehabilitation of Itakpe-Ajaokuta rail line and … [Read more…]
The four Catholic Church Reverend Sisters kidnapped last Sunday at Okigwe-Umulolo axis in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State have been released. Secretary-General of Sisters of Jesus The Saviour (Generalate), Zita Ihedoro, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, yesterday. The freed Reverend Sisters, Johannes Nwodo, Christabel Echemazu, Liberata Mbamalu and Benita Agu, were kidnapped … [Read more…]
Breaking News: Students evacuated from Abuja school as bandits hit nearby community Students of Federal Government College (FCG) Kwali, Abuja, have been evacuated from their hostels following an attack at a nearby community. Parents trooped to the school on Monday morning to evacuate their children from the unity college located at Sheda village, on the … [Read more…]
Federal Ministry of Education has directed closure of Federal Government Colleges (FGCs) located in FCT and ordered immediate evacuation of students. It was gathered that the decision was as a result of rising insecurity and threat to the lives, security and wellbeing of the students therein. While some schools were asked for vacate latest on … [Read more…]
PRESIDENT of the Eze Ndi Igbo in Diaspora, Dr. Boniface Ibekwe, has said that the worsening security crisis in the country was disturbing and has assumed a dangerous dimension. Ibekwe also said that urgent measures were needed to deescalate the growing tension occasioned by insecurity and the downturn of the nation’s economy. Speaking in Akure, … [Read more…]
Consultative Forum (ACF) has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s inability to curtail rising cases of kidnapping, killing and terrorists’ attacks have exposed his ineffective leadership. The group in a statement, yesterday, by its Secretary General, Murtala Aliyu, expressed regret over the level of insecurity, particularly in the Northern region, saying supporters of President Buhari must tell … [Read more…]
Worried by the rising insecurity, civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dumebi Kachikwu, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign. HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, claimed the Buhari administration and the military were cool with the spate … [Read more…]
The Federal Government on Monday condemned the call by five US Republican Senators asking for the redesignation of Nigeria as a country of particular concern because of alleged persecution of Christians. The Senators who made the call in a letter to the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken also alleged violation of freedom of Christians’ … [Read more…]
Contrary to general assumption, the smashing of kidnappers’ hideouts in parts of Anambra State is far from bringing an end to the criminal enterprise in the South East, as more of such dens have been discovered in the region. Saturday Sun investigations showed that the Umunneochi/Lokpanata axis of Abia State, Mbano/Mbaise and Isi-Uzo areas of … [Read more…]
Unknown gunmen suspected to be enforcing the sit-at-home order, on Monday, razed a Dangote’s truck fully loaded with cement at Beach Junction, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. Residents of the area who pleaded for anonymity told Vanguard that the incident happened at about 5:30 AM when most people were still in bed. Though, … [Read more…]
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Senator Ayodele Arise has described as a national tragedy, Sunday’s deadly attack on worshippers at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owaluwa area of Owo, headquarters of Owo Local Government Area of Ondo state. Senator Arise in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday described the incident … [Read more…]