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Hundreds of villagers in Damari town under Kazage Ward in the eastern part of Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State are fleeing their homes en masse after bandits dislodged members of the Ansaru terrorist group last week after a fierce fight. Daily Trust reports that a local union said at least 50 persons have been abducted by the bandits ...

Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Wednesday apologized to Nigerians over his recent post, insisting that it was not his intention to cause disaffection amid the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions. Recalls Gbajabiamila recently posted a picture of himself attending a leadership course at Harvard University in ...

The Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has concluded plans to impose another five per cent Excise Duty on all telecommunications services, including calls, SMS, and data services. Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance and national planning disclosed this at a stakeholders’ forum organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC in Abuja on Thursday.   Ahmed said the decision was motivated by the ...

Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State governor has said President Muhammadu Buhari was not aware of bandits’ threat to capture him until he informed him.   Terrorists had on Sunday July 24, 2022, after flogging abducted Abuja-Kaduna train victims in the forest, vowed in a trending video to capture Buhari and El-rufai.   However, Governor El-rufai, while speaking on a Radio Programme, ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Wednesday night, attacked Owo town in Ondo State, injuring unspecified number of people. The latest attack comes less than two months after terrorists killed about 40 worshippers at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo. Reports said many people were injured in the attack which took place Wednesday evening, at Folahami Junction, where a construction company ...

The Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies are deploying their operatives to man critical infrastructure and facilities as the nationwide protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) takes place today, Tuesday. This is the force warned those it called hoodlums to stay off the streets or face the ...

Beatrice, wife of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the embattled former Nigerian deputy senate president, was on Monday granted bail by a London court, over allegations of human trafficking and organ harvesting.   Beatrice was arrested alongside her husband, Ike on June 23 by the London police, claiming they tried to traffic a minor to illegally harvest his organ. The claim that ...

Barely 24 hours after terrorists threatened to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna Governor Nasir el’Rufai in a viral video, troops of the Guards Brigade have been ambushed by armed bandits in Abuja.   The battalion is a unit under the Guards Brigade, which is responsible for protecting the president.   Three soldiers were wounded during the attack, which has ...

Ado Aleru, notorious banditry kingpin, who was recently named the Sarkin Fulani Yandoton Daji Emirate (the head of the Fulani in Yandoton Daji) in Zamfara State, in a chilling confession, said he does not kidnap people but kills them. The coronation of Mr Aleru, who is the leading terrorist in Tsafe and Faskari axis of Zamfara and Katsina states, generated ...

  As Nigeria’s public debt climbs to N41.6trn Nigeria’s fiscal position worsened in the first four months of the year as the cost of repaying debt surpassed the government’s revenue in the first quarter of 2022. According to details of the 2022 fiscal performance report for January through April, Nigeria’s total revenue stood at N1.63 trillion while debt servicing stood ...