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Advertisement The kidnappers have since killed five of the students and threatened to kill 17 of them still in captivity if a ransom of N100 million and 10 motorcycles are not delivered to them. Commenting on the issue when he featured on Africa Independent Television (AIT) on Tuesday, Gumi said Boko Haram insurgents are beginning to infiltrate bandit herders. Advertisement “Now, we have two groups of bandits. We have the ordinary Fulani ethnic herdsmen and now there is another element which...

BREAKING: Mother Confirms Bandits Released One Kidnapped Kaduna Varsity Student To Family Attahiru however refused to give details of how her son was released and whether a ransom was paid or not. by SaharaReporters, New York May 04, 2021 One of the kidnapped students of Greenfield University in Kaduna State has been released by their abductors. The mother of the student, Lauritta Attahiru on Tuesday confirmed the development to Channels TV, but the police have yet to confirm it.  Attahiru ho...

The senator representing Taraba South in the National Assembly, Emmanuel Bwacha, yesterday, raised the alarm that the most populous black nation was “fast sliding (in) to anarchy.” He spoke during an interactive session with reporters in Jalingo, the state capital. Stating that the best way of rescuing the country was through “prayers”, the Deputy Minority Leader regretted the insecurity in the land. BESIDES, a coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs) has charged the Federal Gov...

•Akwa Ibom, Gombe begin biometric capturing to reduce wage bills •Kaduna may revert to payment of N18,000, Nasarawa introduces TSA Our Reporters With the dwindling allocations from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), state governments nationwide have planned a raft of measures to earn more revenues and enthrone frugality in public spending, THISDAY has learnt. Investigations showed that many of the states are in dire financial straits and could hardly pay salaries as and wh...

Femi Falana A group of eminent Nigerians, New Fabian Society of the Concerned Professionals, has called on religious, traditional and leaders of thought nationwide to partner for genuine change. In a release titled, ‘Time to raise the white flag’, signed by Prof. Pat Utomi, Prof. Anthony Kila, Femi Falana (SAN), Tola Mobolurin, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, Dr. Usman Bugaje, Dr. Muiz Banire (SAN), Dr. Isawa Dogo, Joe Atueyi and Bisi Olowoyo, the body backed Prof. Wole Soyinka’s advocacy for exte...

  The industrial action by the organised labour and resident doctors in Taraba in the time past has hampered the resolve of the state government to meet its target of vaccinating over 50,000 people against COVID-19 in the state. Mr Hassan Mafindi, the Executive Secretary of the State Primary Health Care Development Agency, told reporters on Monday in Jalingo, the state capital that they have so far vaccinated over 23,000 residents. He disclosed that the state has received 40,020 more doses of ...

Journalists have remained targeted specie and seen as threat to those in public office. by SaharaReporters, New York May 03, 2021 A group, the Association of Cross River Online Journalists, has urged the Federal Government and the Cross River State Government to drop all charges against journalists standing trial for doing their job. The union of online journalists practising in Cross River State made the call in a statement issued by its Chairman, Darlington Edem, and Secretary, Archibong Jer...

Secondus, who said the country is better together, said his party will work in concert with the ruling APC to rescue the nation from all the avoidable “perilous circumstances”. He proposed the establishment of state police and setting up of border patrol squads outside immigration and customs to check the influx of armed criminal gangs “We call on all citizens to support the quest for state police as is the tradition in other federations.” “Mindful of the current plethora of vigilante...

A national survey on drug use in Nigeria published in 2019 shows that about 14.3 million Nigerians between 15 and 65 years have used psychoactive substances for non-medical purposes. One out of every four drug users is a woman. We conducted research on the use of drugs among women farmers in Adamawa State, north east Nigeria. These women are involved in the cultivation of food crops such as maize, beans and rice. We wanted to find out if they used drugs in a bid to enhance their farming liveli...

• We Support NEC, Says Plateau PDP Apprehension was thick in the air, when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced its decision to hold an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at the wake of alleged misappropriation of N10million by its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus. A member of the party from Edo State, Mr. Kassim Afegbua, who blew the whistle on the misappropriation of party’s funds by Secondus, also followed up his allegation with a petition, which he subm...