On August 21, news broke that the Rivers state government had demolished the central mosque at Trans-Amadi Industrial Layout in Port Harcourt. The demolition was said to have been carried out on the orders of Nyesom Wike, the governor. From that time, the controversy has been on.Although the governor said no mosque was demolished and that what was brought down was [...]
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Naledi Pandor, South African minister of foreign affairs, says there are many Nigerians in the country involved in drug and human trafficking.Pandor said this on Thursday while responding to criticisms that South Africa's security agencies are not doing enough to protect foreigners in the wave of xenophobia rocking the country.Many Nigerians based in South Africa lost properties worth millions of [...]
Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), says the federal government will no longer condone mismanagement of local government funds by states.The SGF restated the government’s decision to end the operation of joint accounts by state and local governments.Mustapha said this while speaking at the national summit on local government administration organised in Abuja.Represented by David Attah, [...]
The South African high commission in Nigeria has shut down operations in the country.Lunga Ngqengelele of South Africa’s department of international relations and co-operations, told ENCA, a South African broadcaster, that the high commission is temporarily shutting down following reports of attempted attacks on it.Ngqengelele said: “We received reports that some of the people in Nigeria and Zambia have tried [...]
Air Peace has offered free flights to Nigerians willing to return from South Africa over the xenophobic attacks in the country.Ferdinand Nwonye, spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs, announced this in a statement on Wednesday.Many Nigerians were affected in the fresh xenophobic attacks that started few days ago in South Africa.Nwonye said Air Peace volunteered to send an aircraft from [...]
Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police (IGP), has ordered water-tight security around embassies, foreign missions and businesses in the country.In a statement on Wednesday, Frank Mba, police spokesman, said the directive followed the reprisal attacks on South African-owned businesses in Lagos.He added that the police have arrested 125 suspects involved in the attacks.Many Nigerians were affected in the fresh xenophobic attacks [...]
Femi Adesina, spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari, has denied allegations that the president is keeping silent over the attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.Speaking during a Channels TV programme on Wednesday, Adesina said the president has spoken and acted on the xenophobic attacks through Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs.Renewed xenophobia in South Africa has seen foreign nationals, including Nigerians, [...]
The federal executive council (FEC) meeting will not take place on Wednesday.Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, announced this in a statement on Tuesday.He said the postponement of the FEC meeting is to enable the ministers the time to study and have their inputs in the memos submitted by their predecessors.He added this would also give them time to familiarise themselves with [...]
Udeh Okoye, national youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has regained freedom 24 hours after reports that he was kidnapped went viral.He was said to have been kidnapped at gunpoint while on his farm at Ohumagu in Agbaogwugwu area of Enugu state.But in a statement on Tuesday, Louis Amoke, spokesman to Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the state governor, said Okoye [...]
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ban the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN), an umbrella association of herdsmen in the country.According to the PUNCH, the association also called on the president to “completely scrap” the suspended ‘Ruga’grazing scheme.CAN made the request at the Church leaders stakeholders’ summit, themed, ‘RUGA: The church’s response in [...]
Ibrahim Shekarau, senator representing Kano central, has accused Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, of attempting to truncate Nigeria’s democracy.The senator made the accusation while reacting to Wike’s reported demolition of a mosque in Rivers state.There has been a controversy over the demolition which the governor denied took place.Aliu Sadiq, secretary of the mosque, had told TheCable on Monday that [...]
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) says the success of the 2019 elections was hindered by a “badly disrupted” process and misconduct of electoral officials.The organisation said this in a report released on Thursday.Tagged: "Counting the votes and ward-level collation during Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election: A Post-mortem", CDD said the collation process at the ward level was one of the [...]
Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police (IGP), has ordered that special attention be given to the security of worship centres in the country.Adamu gave the order while reacting to the death of David Tanko, a Catholic priest who was burnt alive in Taraba state on Thursday.The priest ran into his killers along Wukari road while heading to Kofai Amadu village.Frank Mba, [...]
The federal government says 1,460 persons have been killed in 330 attacks by bandits in the country in 2019.Amina Shamaki, permanent secretary, special services, office of the secretary to the government of the federation, said this on Thursday at the federal and states security administrators’ meeting in Kebbi state.Shamaki said the north-west, “which was one of the most peaceful zones [...]
Save the Children, an international humanitarian agency, says at least 2.2 million children in the north-east are in need of immediate education in emergency support.Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, Florence Otedola (better known as DJ Cuppy), the agency’s global ambassador, said at least 800 schools in the region are not functional.Children are among the worst hit in [...]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has freed 14 females being held hostage in a house belonging to Iliasu Abdul-Rauf (pictured), national coordinator, Federal Civil Service Staff with Disabilities Multipurpose Cooperative Society.The commission said the hostages were freed when its operatives raided the house as part of an investigation into alleged fraud involving the [...]
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