A group, Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders, has promised to assist in finding the killers of 17 soldiers in Okuama community in Delta State. Spokesperson of the group, Collins Idowu, who addressed journalists yesterday, in Abuja, sympathised with the victims’ families. “Firstly, we express our deepest condolences to the families, ...
Angry youths of Angwan Rukuba in the Nabor Gwong community popularly known as Eto Baba of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State went berserk today, destroying and burning the properties of a farmer resident in the area for the alleged killing of his employee. An eyewitness in the community told our correspondent that […]
•Police Several homes were razed, barns destroyed and cattle rustled following a violent clash between irate youths in the Ponglong area of Lalin district, Mikang local government council, Plateau State. The clash, between Motola and Taroh youths, occurred last night in Mikang Local Government Area, reports The Nation. It was gathered that som...
•Maj Gen Olarenwaju (rtd) The Ijaw Youths Network yesterday faulted a former Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Tajudeen Olarenwaju, on the grisly murder of 16 personnel of the Nigerian Army by Okuama youths on March 14, 2024 over alleged land dispute. In reacting to the killings which shocked the entire country, according to the IYN, […]
Government at all levels has been called upon to take measures to cushion the effects of the prevailing economic crisis on the citizenry. The National Council of Muslim Youth Organisations (NACOMYO), Southern zone, made this renewed appeal in a communique signed by the chairman, Imam Idris Yusuf and secretary, Alhaj Azeez Babalola, after the z...
•Kits belonging to fallen soldiers The military high command today vowed to go after some youths, who reportedly killed 16 of its personnel attached to 181 Amphibious Batallion in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State. Trouble started on Thursday when the troops responded to a distress call regarding a communal crisis between the Okuoma ...
•Anambra protesters Some members of the Umuoji community in the Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, mainly youths, have protested the killing of the President-General of the community, Chief Sylvester Onyima. The National Youth Leader of Umuoji, Chudi Chikelu, who led the protest to the Government House in Awka today, express...
The Avu/Ohaji and Egbema Youth Forum in Imo State has issued a 7-day ultimatum to Roudo Construction Company Ltd., an NDDC contractor, within which to return to the abandoned Avu/Umunwaku/Adapalm/Etekwuru road and resume work. Briefing journalists in Owerri on Wednesday, the President of Ohaji Youths, Comrade Nwosu Nicholas Tochukwu, informed ...
•Pro-Tinubu youths Scores of pro-democracy activists today staged a solidarity march from the popular Unity Fountain to the National Assembly complex in Abuja to demand that the Nigeria Labour Congress suspend its planned two-day protest and return to the negotiation table with the federal government. They also vowed to mobilise Nigerians agai...
Some youths and women of the All Progressives Congress (APC) today thronged the party’s secretariat in Benin City, the Edo State capital in protest against the outcome of Saturday’s governorship primary election which produced three winners. The group who removed furniture and other items from the secretariat and promised to camp outside the f...