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Month: July 2022

2023: Sanwo-Olu, Fayemi, Akeredolu Storm Rivers For Wike

2023: Sanwo-Olu, Fayemi, Akeredolu Storm Rivers For Wike

Speculations about Governor Nyesom Wike’s defection to the APC are at an all time high as three prominent Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have Friday stormed Port Harcourt, Rivers State to meet with Governor Nyesom Wike for a political meeting behind closed-doors.   The governors who had visited hin include Babajide Sanwo-Olu of […]

Ekiti Election: Gov Fayemi Hails NYSC Members’ Contributions

Fayemi I'll Resolve All Issues Before Leaving Office - Gov Fayemi

Dr. Kayode Fayemi who is the Ekiti State Governor has openly commended some of the members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for their wonderful contributions to the successful conduct of the last governorship election which had been held in the State. Governor Fayemi had also appreciated the contributions of the NYSC members to […]

Missing Kuje Terrorists Send Death Threats To Military Officers

Missing Kuje Terrorists Send Death Threats To Military Officers

Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York has revealed that some members of the Boko Haram its factional terrorist group ISWAP, have sent death threats to military officers and some other Kuje Prison guards who had orchestrated their capture and imprisonment. Africa Today News, New York had on Tuesday reported that […]

Osun State NSCDC Deploys 1457 Officers For Eid-El-Kabir

Operating Licences Given To 19 Private Guard Companies - NSCDC

The Osun State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has announced that it has deployed a total of up to 1,457 officers as part of its full readiness to combat crimes during the period of celebration and also to make sure there would be an adequate form of protection for the […]

Kuje Jail Break: Buhari, Heads Of Security In Closed-Door Meeting

Kuje Jail Break: Buhari, Heads Of Security In Closed-Door Meeting

While reacting to the events of the recent siege on the medium custodial centre in Kuje, Abuja which led to a massive prison break in the facility, the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding an emergency meeting with service chiefs, heads of other security services and some ministers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to […]

Ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe Dies After Attempted Murder

Ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe Dies After Attempted Murder

Shinzo Abe who is the Former Prime Minister of Japan has been confirmed dead after he was fatally injured as a result of an attempted assassination on him. “Former prime minister Abe died at a hospital in Kashihara city, Nara, where he was receiving medical treatment”, said national broadcaster NHK. Shinzo Abe had been shot […]

Sallah: FCTA Warns Against Blockages During Eid Prayers

Kubwa Inferno: FCTA Demolishes 100 Illegal Shops

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has appealed to the Muslims in Abuja and other states to make sure that they do not cause road blockages during their Sallah celebrations. The administration had made this open plea in an announcement which they had made on Friday. Muslim faithful will be observing the Eid prayer at […]

Kuje Jailbreak: Why Buhari Must Sack Aregbesola – HURIWA

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Thursday, said Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, must be sacked with immediate effect over his consistent failure to stop attacks on prisons in the country. HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, said it is distasteful and condemnable that over 15 jailbreaks have occurred under Aregbesola in the last five years while over 3,000 inmates have escaped. The group also urged the President, Muhammadu Buhari, to stop asking rhetorical questions on social media on how the intelligence system of the country failed to detect Tuesday attack at Kuje prison in Abuja. HURIWA said the President should immediately set up judicial panel of inquiry on prison breaks in Nigeria and ensure that such assaults on the entire security apparatus of Nigeria do not recur. Recall that terrorists attack the Kuje Correctional Centre on Tuesday evening, bombed the prison, killed some security agents and inmates while they set over 600 prisoners free including 64 Boko Haram suspects. According to media reports, soldiers deployed to Kuje vicinity and the Correctional Center’s environment, who had mastered the terrain, were redeployed 24 hours before the dastard attack. In fact, Tukur Mamu, a media aide to controversial Islamic cleric and bandit-sympathiser and negotiator, Ahmad Gumi, said the Kuje prison attackers were members of the Ansaru terrorist group who launched attack and kidnapped scores of passengers in Abuja-Kaduna bound train on March 28. Reacting, HURIWA’s Onwubiko said, “The spate of jailbreaks under President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, is alarming and condemnable. Even under then President Goodluck Jonathan who had no military experience or background, jailbreaks weren’t as rampant as what Nigerians see these days. “The frequent and recurring jailbreaks show the inefficiency of all those President Buhari appointed into office and his unwillingness to sack them show also that the President tacitly wants the situation to continue to fester. “HURIWA demands the arrest of the persons who gave the order purportedly for the withdrawal of soldiers before the attack.” The group also demands the sacking of “the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; and his Defence counterpart, Bashir Magashi; for perpetual incompetence. We also call for a broad-based judicial panel of inquiry on prison breaks in Nigeria to be constituted.”

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has asserted that Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, must be sacked with immediate effect over his consistent failure to stop attacks on prisons in different parts of the country. The National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko who made this assertion in a statement, revealing it is distasteful […]

Terrorists Relocating To Southern Nigeria, Akeredolu Cries Out

Terrorists Relocating To Southern Nigeria, Akeredolu Cries Out

The Governor of Ondo State, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, has raised the alarm that terrorists are currently moving southward to take refuge in the forest. He emphasised once more the requirement for the establishment of a state police force to protect people and property. The Nigeria Police Force, according to Akeredolu, is overworked, understaffed, and unable […]

Stop Dividing Nigeria With Ethnicity, NEF Warns Politicians

Stop Dividing Nigeria With Ethnicity, NEF Warns

Reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York has it that the Northern Elders Forum, NEF has raised fears that ethnicity and greed were threatening to frustrate the emergence of a country with the capacity to turn around its fortunes in the 2023 general elections. The organisation expressed this concern over recent developments […]

Kuje Attack: Nigeria’s Security Architecture A Failure — NASS

Kuje Attack Nigeria's Security Architecture A Failure — NASS

The Nigerian national assembly on Thursday took a swipe at the management of Kuje Prisons over the unhindered attack on it in the early hours of Wednesday by terrorists of Islamic State for West African Province, ISWAP, asserting that it speaks volumes about the glaring failure of the country’s security architecture. The Senate expressed its […]

Angola Moves To Boost Fuel Production, Expands Refinery

Angola Moves To Boost Fuel Production, Expands Refinery

Oil-rich In an effort to lessen its reliance on fuel imports, Angola revealed a new production unit on Thursday that will multiply output at its sole refinery by four. According to Sonangol, the state oil corporation, the new plant will increase Angola’s fuel production to 1,580,000 litres per day, resulting in a 15% decrease in […]