Month: May 2024

FCT Police foils Kidnapping, rescues victims

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In an immediate and strategic response to a distress call on the attack by unknown gunmen in Dawaki on May 19, 2024, at about 11:30 PM, the operatives of the FCT police command led by the Commissioner of Police, CP Benneth C. Igweh himself, swiftly mobilised to the scene. Displaying remarkable bravery and coordination, the police, in synergy with local hunters, advanced on the assailants, tactically ambushed them at Ushafa Hill via Bwari and Shishipe Hills via Mpape. This led to a fierce gun duel as the hoodlums were overwhelmed…

Rivers crisis: Coalition of 92 CSOs send SOS to FG to save democracy in Nigeria … Urges NJC to beam searchlight on Justice Wali’s activities

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A coalition of 92 Civil Society Organisations, CSOs under the platform of Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness, CCLCA, have sent an SOS to the Federal Government to save democracy in Nigeria.   They also called on the National Judicial Commission, NJC to immediately beam its searchlight Justice Charles Wali of Rivers State High Court for issuing a controversial expate motion despite a subsisting order of a federal High Court.   Director General of CCLCA, Dr Gabriel Nwambu made this disclosure at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday.…

NASS committed to multi-dimensional reforms to reposition Judiciary – Sen Monguno

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The Chairman of Senate committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal matters, Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno (APC, Borno North) on Monday said the National Assembly is committed to embarking on multi-dimensional reforms that would strengthen and reposition the nation’s judiciary.   He said the reforms will be in tandem with global best practices and contemporary realities of time.   Monguno, spoke at a one-day public hearing to look into a bill for an act to prescribe the salaries, allowances and fringe benefits of judicial office holders in Nigeria and other…

MUSWEN charges FG to tackle incessant insecurity in Nigeria

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The Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN), the umbrella body for the Muslims in South West, has called on the Federal Government to urgently address the root causes of insecurity in Nigeria.   The President of MUSWEN, Alhaji Rasaki Oladejo made the call during a Public Health lecture series organised by MUSWEN Health Committee in Ibadan.   The theme of the lecture was “National Insecurity and Its Psychological Effects on the Citizens:the Islamic and Health Perspectives”.   ”Nigeria today is fraught with challenges where the very fabric of society…

Deputy Speaker Kalu seeks lasting solutions to ethnic tensions, religious divides in Nigeria

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Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has said that Nigeria’s diversity is not a call for division but a beautiful coloration that signified strength and unity of a people in a journey towards nationhood.   He said that though the country is made up of different ethnic groups and religions, the goal is one national objective.   Kalu made the assertion, Monday, while delivering his Keynote Address at the commencement of a 2-Day National Engagement on Addressing Identity-Based Conflict with the theme “Mapping Actors…

Kneeling for Imams of northern Nigeria By Lasisi Olagunju

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A minister suffered severe abuse and reprimand from the elites of the North last week because she asked the North to choose mass education first before mass marriage. Sixty-four years after independence, we are still struggling to understand Nigeria’s Muslim North and its ways. A 1950 letter to the editor of Gaskiya, northern Nigeria’s preeminent Hausa newspaper, should tell us something about the mystery of the region.   The letter appeared in the newspaper’s number 391 of 8 March, 1950 on page 2.   It reads:   “To the Editor…

Media posseses information that can help Legislative duties if harnessed ,says Hon Ehindero

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Member representing Akoko North-west/Akoko Morth-East Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Hon. Ife Ehindero, has described the role of the media on national development as immeasurable and a sector any success-driven lawmakers must harness in their legislative duties for national development.   Ehindero made the declaration during a courtesy call on him in his office at the National Assembly, by members of Ondo State journalists under the aegis of the Ondo State Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria (OSMEPAN), on Friday.   Addressing the visiting journalists in his office, Hon…

Senator Manu, other prominent Nigerians grace installation of HRH Ahmadu Gboshi III of Takum

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The Senator Haruna Manu representing Taraba Central Senatorial District, colleagues from National Assembly and other prominent Nigerians at the weekend were in full attendance at the installation of a new traditional ruler of the Takums in Taraba State.   HRH Barr Sophiya Ahmadu Gboshi III was installed as a First class Chief 30years after litigations were concluded for the highly revered throne. Dignitaries present include the State Governor, Dr Agbu Kefas who handed over the staff of office to HRH Barr Sophiya Ahmadu Gboshi III.   Also present were former…

Speaker Abbas urges Ganduje to constitute c’ttees to reconcile aggrieved APC members

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen has called on National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje to constitute reconciliation committees that would unite the members of the party nationwide.   Speaker Abbas noted that some members of the APC were aggrieved, which was why there was a need to reconcile and make peace with them.   Speaking at the APC stakeholders’ meeting for the Northwest in Kaduna on Sunday, the Speaker said such action would bring more successes to the…

2024 UNIFEMGA National Reunion:Participants say Insecurity poses threat to Nigeria’s Democracy, Economic growth ….. Urge government to address challenges

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Participants at the just concluded 2024 National Reunion Conference of Obafemi Awolowo University Muslim Graduates’ Association (UNIFEMGA) said failure of leadership at all levels in Nigeria has caused the nation a lot of challenges which included civil strife,insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, corruption,economic comatose, political rascality and social disorder. . The participants maintained that series of security crises been witnessed in the country was due largely to insensitivity on the part of Nigerian leaders,inadequate intelligence gathering on the part of the security agencies all of which constitute a great challenge to good…