•Adebayo Adelabu National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) has called on the Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, to resign his position as a result of the electricity situation in the country. The national student body, also called on other ministers who they claimed are not active to step down from office, reports Nigerian Tribune....
•Abure and Ajaero The labour veterans and trade unionists’ assembly has again today, urged the embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party(LP), Mr Julius Abure, and the President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr. Joe Ajaero, to tender immediate resignations from their respective positions. They declared that the two individuals are no ...
The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has called on the federal government to investigate the management and Board of Trustees of the Cement Technology Institute of Nigeria (CTIN) over alleged diversion of N20 billion intervention fund meant for training of students and development of CTIN. The National President of the assoc...
The bereaved families and friends of some of the police officers who were ambushed and killed while investigating the disappearance of three colleagues by unknown persons in Delta State have demanded justice for their loved ones. The spokesperson for the Nigeria Police Force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, had disclosed the killing of the six police offic...
•Policemen Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State says governors will demand the review of the current revenue allocation formula once state police is adopted. The governor of the North Central state last night said funding would be an issue for governors to pursue the adoption and implementation of state police, reports Channels TV. Sule a...
•The suspects The Lagos State Police Command apprehended two undergraduate companions who orchestrated a fake kidnapping scheme to extort money from their parents. The suspects, 21-year-old Balogun Ayodele, a second-year student at Lagos State University of Education, Ijanikin, and Okuomo Dennis, also 21 years old and a student at the National...
•The Senate The Northern Senators Forum (NSF) has said that the escalation of kidnappings in the North, particularly Kaduna State lately, is not only “reprehensible” but also calls for “urgent and resolute action” to tackle the mass abductions of citizens. As a body, it said it had the mandate to ensure that the security situation […]...
•Fulani herdsman A group, Middle Belt Patriots, has urged state governors not to succumb to pressure from the federal government to cede lands to Fulani herdsmen for grazing. The group said yielding to such demands would worsen the security situation in the middle belt and other parts of the country, reports Saturday PUNCH. President Bola [&he...
•Bandits The bandits that kidnapped 15 Qur’anic students in Sokoto State have established contact with their families, demanding N20 million before releasing them. The proprietor of the school, Liman Abubakar confirmed this development in a telephone conversation with our correspondent today, reports The PUNCH. It was earlier reported that the...
•Senator Ningi The All Progressive Congress, Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party and some other political parties yesterday, called for a thorough probe into the allegation made by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Population, Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central), that N3.7tn was padded in the 2024 budget. While the parties called for a probe ...