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…Backs AUFCDN’s move to suspend movement of foodstuffs to South over attacks on Northerners By Luminous Jannamike Members of the Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, have blamed the country’s security challenges on those they called “desperate southern political power seekers”. The group also sensed a weakness in the Federal Government’s will to deal decisively with the instigators of the insecurity being felt, especially by Northerners in their region and elsewhere across the country...

The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG says it aligns with calls by Sheikh Ahmed Gumi that criminal bandits be granted amnesty. Recall that the cleric had

Punch Newspapers Sections Friday Olokor, Abuja THE Presidential Amnesty Programme has begun investigation of fraud perpetrated by some vendors and contractors to determine its spread and extent of involvement or connivance with staff. The organisation said while the investigation remained ongoing, it would not stop the payment of those whose contracts and documents had been verified and reconciled as soon as the expected funds were released. The Interim Administrator of PAP, Col. Milland Dikio ...

PORT HARCOURT: The Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP office has launched investigations into fraudulent activities of some contractors

The office of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has launched a probe into fraudulent activities of some contractors and vendors engaged by the scheme to train and empower ex-agitators.

Vanguard News Cost of militancy in the Niger Delta On By Patrick Dele Cole THE plight of the Niger Delta has never been worse than it is now. The people are a lot poorer than ever before. They are restless, nearer revolt; the low level insurgency is gone. The original militants have been compromised and their leaders even more so. Today we have a people who prey on themselves. The  voice of the older leadership is raised only when they need something and slink away to quietude once the prover...

Crime, punishment and bush ‘repentance’ By Thu Feb 11 2021 Perhaps most of us have recollections of the news that day on July 22, 2011, when a certain Anders Breivik first detonated a bomb in Oslo, outside the Norwegian Prime Minister’s office, killing eight persons. He then travelled some 38km to the island of Utoya, where a youth league was having its meeting and, for over an hour, in cold bold, Mr Breivik shot and killed 69 young persons. By the time Breivik surrendered to the police, ...

Niger Delta MilitantThe plight of the Niger Delta has never been worse than it is now. They are a lot poorer than ever before. The people are restless, nearer revolt; the low-level insurgency is gone. The original militants have been compromised and their leaders even more so. Today we have a people who prey on themselves; Older leadership whose voice is raised only when they need something slink away to quietude once the proverbial bone is thrown to them. They, like most of Nigeria, have been...

Soldier Serving In North-East Sells AK-47 Rifle To Kidnapper For N300,000 Ebiowei, who hails from Ofunama in the Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State, was caught by the police with the rifle as well as 88 rounds of ammunition. by SaharaReporters, New York Feb 08, 2021 A 34-year-old suspected kidnapper, Sampson Ebiowei, has explained that he got his operational AK-47 rifle from a soldier of the Nigerian Army serving in the Operation Lafiya Dole in the North-East who sold the weapon...

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