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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has urged South-East Governors to incorporate the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB's Eastern

Apr 12, 2021 The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy patrols the Arctic Ocean near Oliktok Point, Alaska. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Grant DeVuyst) Share As the Arctic grows warmer, so too does the potential for great power competition amongst the United States, China, and Russia. While a historic Arctic power like Russia is militarizing its waters, so-called near-Arctic China is extending its commercial reach to Greenland and Russia with the Polar Silk Road component...

Sa’ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto, has sighted the moon signalling the beginning of Ramadan. The Sultan in a live broadcast on Monday announced that the

• Urges other regions to create own Amotekun Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, yesterday, in Abuja, reviewed the country’s security challenges and concluded that a sure way to tackle them is to decentralise the policing system. Oyetola, who acknowledged community policing, argued that the intervention is inadequate as it is still being controlled from the centre. He further argued that the constitutional provision that assigns the role of chief security officer to governors ought to h...

Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has slammed Africa’s Richest businessman, Aliko Dangote for allegedly exploiting Nigerians via the Dangote Cement Company. The IPOB leader alleged that the Dangote cement is sold cheaper in other countries while the price is doubled in Nigeria. Kanu made the allegation on Wednesday via a tweet on his verified Twitter handle. The tweet reads: “In Zambia, Dangote sells cement for 55 Kwatcha (1150 Naira). But here in Nigeria, t...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Following the recent attack on Imo State correctional centre (prisons) by unknown gunmen which led to the loss of lives and property, a cultural group, Igbo National Council (INC), has demanded that all the heads of security agencies, including the police, be arrested and tried. It accused them of conspiring with the hoodlums to perpetrate the dastardly act. The President of the group, Godsent Chilos made this demand through a press release made available to newsmen...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Troops of I Division, FCC, Nigerian Army has said it rescued five of the students of the College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna who were kidnapped by bandits on March 11. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, NAN reports. Yerima gave the names of the rescued students as Abubakar Yakubu, Francis Paul, Obadiya Habakkuk, Amina Yusuf and Maryam Danladi. He said the rescued students...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Western Security Network, Amotekun, Osun has described as false the information in some quarters that its personnel have been going about in marked vans, harassing citizens and residents of Osogbo. Speaking to DAILY POST, the Assistant Head of Media and Publicity to the Field Commander, Yusuf Idowu stated that those harassing residents in those locations were not Amotekun personnel but members of other security outfit who go about tagging themselves as Amotekun....

The Rivers State Police Command has assured residents and business operators in the state of their safety and protection in the wake of increasing devastating attacks on police formations in neighbouring Abia and most recently, Imo State. Spokesman of the command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni gave the assurance in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt in reaction to the deadly attack at the Imo State Police Headquarters and Correctional Centre. SP Omoni said the command in Rivers State is on the alert...

By Kayode Fasua Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, and Nobel Laureate, Professor ‘Wole Soyinka, yesterday warned operatives of the state’s chapter of the South Western Security Network (SWSN), code-named Amotekun Corps, against trampling on the rights of the citizens in the course of fighting criminality. Abiodun has also decorated Soyinka as the Super Marshall of the Amotekun. The governor specifically charged operatives of the Amotekun Corps to operate within the ambit of the...