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  We have been witnessing attacks and counter-attacks here and there and this portends a great danger to the peaceful co-existence of various ethnic groups in Nigeria. A coalition group, Agbarijo Egbe Odo Yoruba (Grand Council of Yoruba Youths) has called on the federal, states governments and stakeholders to take decisive action against the escalation of Fulani herdsmen menace across ...

  He emphasised that unlike the arrangement with the MAP metering scheme where customers had to apply and pay to be metered, there is no online or offline application in this mass metering exercise The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has cautioned electricity consumers against activities of scammers and unscrupulous individuals who are already taking advantage of the just-commenced National ...

  “We have also seen five people being given N20,000 to share, instead of N20,000 each, while some that were assisted had to part with between N15,000 to N17,000 to the persons that assisted them.” Author: News Agency of Nigeria Some women in Kaduna State have decried alleged extortion and nepotism in the ongoing N20,000 grant being disbursed by the ...

  The officer said the army usually set up a general court-martial publicly to try erring soldiers or officers, adding that such court-martial must have a President and other members. By NAN The Nigerian Army has called on members of the public to ignore a report by a coalition that it conducted secret trials and executed six soldiers of Igbo ...

  The alert stipulated that the targeted States were Sokoto, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Rivers, Oyo, Lagos and those in the South East. The Department of State Services (DSS) has again warned against plans by some persons and groups to exploit some fault lines to cause ethnoreligious violence in some parts of the country. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the ...

  “My lawyers traced them to a police station in Abia State and demanded the release of my staff and the two vehicles after presenting the documents, but Mad Dog asked for N500, 000 to release Sampson and withheld the vehicles. But my lawyers refused to negotiate payment with them and went to court” NAN Report Akwa Ibom State judicial ...

  It was reported that a total of 56.18 million NINs have been collected by the mobile network operators. Each NIN is usually tied to an average of 3 to 4 SIMs and this infers that the current figure accounts for a significant portion of the existing SIMs. NAN Report The ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identity Module ...

  He also disclosed his men had arrested, arraigned, prosecuted and convicted no fewer than 100 persons over violation of the executive order. NAN Report The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Mobile Court, on Monday, in line with the newly promulgated Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Health Protection Regulations 2021 closed down Wuse and UTC markets in Abuja according to NAN report. ...

  “These bad ones are our target. Any herdsman who engages in kidnapping would be flushed out not only Igangan, we are going to visit all Yorubaland and ensure there is peace everywhere.” Pegasus Report Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, has declared that there will be peace for terrorist Fulani herdsmen until they are flushed out of the Southwest. on Monday ...

  “In 1981 the Senate led by Joseph Wayas summoned Prince Momoh for contempt. This caused a major legal battle in which Prince Momoh successfully argued that as a journalist he was empowered by the constitution to hold government accountable at all times” Author: Mashud ‘Baker Prince Tony Momoh, the celebrated and cerebral Yerima of Auchi Sacred Kingdom and one ...