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SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has alleged that the federal government has no plans to pursue the trial of its leader Nnamdi Kanu and is employing various methods to keep him in detention perpetually.

ARMED bandits and terrorists operating in the Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna State now charge local communities as much N400m ($964,00) to leave them live in peace and to refrain from kidnapping residents.

SUPER Eagles striker Emmanuel Dennis could be on his way to Leeds United soon after it emerged that the English Premier League giants are considering putting in a £20m bid for him to his current club Watford.

Ayo Akinfe

[1 As from October 1 2023, all state governors will stop getting federal handouts as the federal allocation regime will be scrapped. Governors thus have to get their states self-reliant in line with the provisions of the Lancaster House Agreement of 1958

[2] We will scrap government subsidies on all religious pilgrimages. If you want to go to Saudi Arabia or Israel, you are on your own

AS many as 37 security personnel have been killed in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State following a bloody assault on a mining site yesterday by armed bandits who attacked the facility and abducted the foreign workers working there.

ARMED bandits operating in Plateau State have given residents of 10 communities in Wase Local Government Area a five day ultimatum to vacate their communities or face the full wrath of their fury.

FORMER Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate that he is unlikely to receive the backing of the party due to the way he treated Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and the breach of the rotation principle.

GOVERNOR Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara State has signed a new bill into law punishing armed banditry and kidnapping with the death penalty as part of an attempt to combat the growing insecurity across the state.

NIGERIA'S former senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice appeared before Uxbridge Magistrate Court this morning after their ongoing trial for organ harvesting was surprisingly brought forward from July 7.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On May 14 1897, Great Britain signed a treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia, creating bilateral relationships between Ethiopia and British Somaliland. It guaranteed the rights of the citizens of both territories and opened the door to trade between them