The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has rejected claims in a Sahara Reporters story that the Department of State Services (DSS) abducted Lagos-based lawyer Moses Oddiri on the instructions of the Commission’s Chairman over alleged diversion of community funds. In a statement, the EFCC described the report as false and “contrived to portray the…
The National Association of Nigerian Students has called for proactive measures to secure schools nationwide after kidnapping of students in Kebbi and Niger states. In a press release by NANS Public Relations Officer, Comrade Adeyemi Samson Ajasa, he disclosed that the association is saddened by high level of insecurity in the nation. He furthered the…
The Catholic Diocese of Kontagora has confirmed that armed bandits invaded St Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri, Agwara local government area of Niger state. A memo titled “Attack and kidnapping of pupils, students and teachers of St Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools, Papiri” was signed by the Diocesan Secretary, Jatau Luka…
The Archbishop of the Methodist Archdiocese of Olivier, Imo State, Most Revered Livinus Biereonwu Onuagha has condemned the life sentence slammed on Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Onuagha also described the decision of the court on the terrorism charges against the IPOB as a grave misjudgment that has failed…
No fewer than 20 out of the 34 local government areas in Katsina State, have reportedly entered into a peace accord with bandits, even as residents continue to express doubts over the sincerity and effectiveness of the deal, following fresh attacks in some of the affected communities. The agreement, reached during a meeting attended by…
A survivor of the Yelwata attack in Benue State, Msurshima Apeh, has narrated her ordeal before the United States Congress, describing how she lost her five children during the attack. The victim testified on Thursday before the House Subcommittee on Africa, which examined President Donald Trump’s decision to return Nigeria to the Country of Particular…
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, in Benue State, Wilfred Anagbe, has appealed to President Donald Trump of the United States to match its renewed designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, CPC, with concrete action. Bishop Anagbe made this call on Thursday, while testifying before the US House of Representatives…
A member of the United States House of Representatives, Riley Moore, has called on the Nigerian government to pardon a farmer, Sunday Jackson, who was sentenced to death for killing a herdsman during a 2015 confrontation in Adamawa State. Speaking on Thursday during a US House hearing on President Donald Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked the Minister of State for Defence, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, to relocate to Kebbi State over the abduction of 24 schoolgirls in the state. Matawalle, who was formerly governor of Zamfara State, was asked to remain in the state to monitor security efforts to secure the release of the…
Olusegun Awolowo Jr., the grandson of Nigeria’s legendary statesman Chief Obafemi Awolowo, a prominent lawyer, and former Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), is dead. He was the only son of Hajiya Zainab Abah Folawiyo, popularly known as Sisi Abah Folawiyo, the renowned fashion icon and widow of the late…