Month: June 2018
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Revealed: How Herdsmen Are Renaming Communities Forcefully Taken By Them
According to a document obtained by the Vanguard, it has been revealed how the herdsmen in Nigeria are renaming communities invaded by them after their original occupiers have been attacked and displaced. The reports gave list of numerous communities invaded and renamed by Herdsmen dated back 2001 till date. The occupied communities include “Rotchun (aka…
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Police Arrested Pastor For Selling Tickets To Heaven For Church Members
A Pastor in Zimbabwe has been arrested together with his wife for allegedly selling tickets to heaven to his church members, report from a local FM in Zimbabwe has said. Pastor Tito Wats told thousands of people that it was Jesus who appeared to him, then gave him tickets to people especially sinners so that they…
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Opinion: Why Nigerians Should Go For Dankwambo Against 2019
By Sani Jauro Though as a career civil servant I am not a politician, the compelling motivation to write this piece was predicated on an interview I granted some newsmen during the week, in which they asked me questions regarding my principal, Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo. The press men, obviously amazed at what the governor was…
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Plateau: Buhari Mocks Opposition, Says PDP Shedding Crocodile Tears
President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of playing irresponsible politics with the killings of Nigerians in Plateau State when they (PDP) says it is declaring seven days mourning in Nigeria. The president said that the PDP is dancing on the graves of the dead, playing cheap and infantile politics when it…
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Again, Federal Govt Borrows $2.1b Loan From World Bank
The World Bank has approved a loan of $2.1 billion for Nigerian government following a request from the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. According to a statement released on Thursday, the money was approved for seven projects which cover areas like nutrition, access to electricity, states’ fiscal transparency, polio eradication, women’s economic empowerment, public finance…
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Tension In APC As Court Fixes July 3 In Suit File To Disqualify Fayemi
There is tension in the camp of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Bwari, on Wednesday, fixed July 3 to deliver judgment on a suit challenging the eligibility of former Minister of Mines and Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to participate in the July 14 governorship…
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Ekiti Guber Polls: To Vote APC, Is Like Voting For Killer Herdsmen — Fayose
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has urged Ekiti people not to vote for the All Progressives Congress in the July 14 governorship election. He said voting for the APC during the election was an invitation to chaos, killing, raping of people’s wives and daughters by the killer herdsmen which the APC harboured. Fayose urged…
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Herdsmen: Sagay Blasts Defence Minister, Ask Buhari To Sack All Security Chiefs
– Says killing is causing embarrassment to all Buhari’s supporters Prof. Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has called for the immediate sack of Service Chiefs in the face of deteriorating security problem in the country saying they are causing embarrassment not only to President Muhammadu Buhari but to all…
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Guber Poll: Group Mobilises Support For Kolapo, PDP, In Ekiti
The Ekiti State chapter of the Council of Concerned Youth of Nigeria, (COCYON), has started mobilising the youths of the state in support of governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State in his quest to install a successor, candidate of the People Democratic Party, professor Kolapo Olusola through the forth coming July 2018 gubernatorial election in…
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Edo, Ondo, Delta, Ekiti Mobilise Mega Protest Against Renewal of BEDC License
Civil society groups and notable Non Governmental Organisation (NGOs) in Edo, Ondo, Delta, and Ekiti State respectively, have resolved to launch a mass protest at Abuja, against the renewal of the operational license of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, by the Federal government over what the groups described as total failure of the company…
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Yoruba, Igbos, Niger Delta, Others, United Against Buhari Over Anti-Restructuring Comment
President Muhammadu Buhari came under severe criticism yesterday for saying that the calls for the restructuring of the country were laced with parochial interests, hence he did not heed them. Supporters of the calls have not only considered Buhari as being ignorant of the enormity of the challenges facing the country, they have urged him…
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Christianity May Cease To Exist In Nigeria Soon–TY Danjuma Group Raises Alarm
The National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) led by former Minister of Defence Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), and Solomon Asemota (SAN) has revealed that Christianity may cease to exist very soon in Nigeria. NCEF’s Secretary Bosun Emmanuel stated these in his paper entitled “Impact of lack of unity in CAN as threat to Christian faith”,…