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The ongoing three-day national convention of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) was on Thursday disrupted by violence. About 20 members of the association, who gathered at the old parade ground in Abuja for the convention, sustained wounds from gunshots and machete after thugs loyal to a factional coordinator of the association in Zone D (Southwest) began attacking delegates. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: 20 Injured As Violence Rocks NANS Convention In Abuja 0 Comments 4 Hours Ago BREAKING: 20 Injured As Violence Rocks NANS Convention In Abuja | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/nDR0ymNYjG pic.twitter.com/FyVNvKjx9j — Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) December 3, 2020 The thugs, numbering over 20, stormed the venue with dangerous weapons while accreditation of Students Union Government (SUG) Presidents under NANS Zone B and Zone D was in progress. Meanwhile, DSS operatives have allegedly arrested the National Public Relations Officer of the...

Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has queried the police legal officer over a suit filed by the police at the federal high court on the legality of judicial panels of inquiry on police brutality set up by various state governments. Adamu has also ordered an investigation on the circumstances surrounding the suit, a move that raises new questions on whether he was not informed before the legal action by the police was taken.   Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu “The Force Legal Officer has been queried and may face further sanctions if found guilty of dereliction of duty, a statement from the police on Thursday claimed.  “The IGP reiterates the commitment of the Force to fulfilling all its obligations with regards to the disbandment of the defunct SARS, the ongoing judicial panels and all other police reforms.” In a suit marked FHC/ ABJ/CS/1492/2020 and filed by O.M Atoyebi, the police ...

A top delegation of the Cameroonian Armed Forces on Thursday visited the Borno State Government House, Maiduguri, and met with the state governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, over Saturday’s gruesome massacre of at least 70 rice farmers in Zabarmari community. This visit is coming 48 hours after the state governor noted that one of the recommendations his state had put forward to the Federal Government was to consider hiring mercenaries to dislodge the Boko Haram terrorists from the region since the Nigerian military appeared to be overwhelmed. . @ProfZulum receives Cameroonian 4th region military commander.. https://t.co/dwRXzrT98a pic.twitter.com/IPUtctqdvQ — Governor Borno (@GovBorno) December 3, 2020 Another recommendation that Zulum gave was for the regional forces, Cameroon, Chad and the Niger Republic to collaborate on waging war against the Boko Haram terrorists. At the meeting, the governor urged the Cameroonian delegation on the need for Nigeria and Cameroon to t...

Shehu Sani A former Kaduna State Senator and public analyst, Shehu Sani, has berated the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, over his projection that the Boko Haram insurgency could last for another 20 years in the country. Sani said the army chief’s statement suggested someone who was bankrupt of fresh ideas and strategies and who should, therefore, tender his resignation. Shehu Sani The senator wrote on Twitter, “When the protesters needed you, you were not there; when you needed the protesters, they are not here.  When the protesters needed you,you were not there;When you needed the protesters, they are not here. — Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) December 3, 2020 “Telling our people that the insurgency will last 20 years after repeated misleading claims of victories attests to the failure of those saddled with the responsibility of leading the fight. “It also signifies the resignation and bankruptcy of new ideas and strategies.”  Telling our pe...

Heavy gunshots on Thursday rocked the old parade ground in Abuja, venue of the national convention of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). NANS, the umbrella body of students of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, is currently holding a convention to elect a new set of national leaders. A source, who spoke to SaharaReporters, said not less than 20 students sustained wounds from gunshots and machete after thugs loyal to a factional coordinator of the association in Zone D (Southwest) began attacking delegates. He said, “They have stopped accreditation already, you know we have factions in Zone D. If you see the boys one of the coordinators brought to the convention ground, even the DSS ran away.”   BREAKING: Sporadic gunshots rocks the ongoing #NANS Convention venue in Abuja amidst vote buying. The gathering of students leaders was meant to elect a new President of National Association of Nigerian Students that will pilot the affairs of the student’s...

File Photo Students and educators at five schools of nursing in Delta State have protested against the proposed strike by the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives. The schools include School of Nursing, Agbor; School of Midwifery, Sapele; School of Midwifery, Asaba; School of Nursing, Eku; and School of Nursing, Warri. File Photo The peaceful protesters, led by the principals of the five schools on Thursday, to the Nigeria Labour Congress secretariat in Asaba, condemned the association’s motive for industrial action. Nduka Egwulu, principal of School of Nursing, Agbor, said that the association had demanded, among other issues, the reversion of transfer of lecturers in the state, adding that such demand was “a purely civil service matter.” Other principals who joined the protest argued that the proposed strike would further disrupt the academic calendar after the COVID-19 lockdown. They pointed out that internal issues within the association could be resolv...

Nineteen months after assaulting a nursing mother, Senator Elisha Abbo, has again been caught on video slapping a young man repeatedly in his hometown in Adamawa State. Abbo, representing the Adamawa North Senatorial District, was seen assaulting a young man in a video posted by a Twitter user, @Jacfelixchidama. The Senator first came to limelight in 2019, when he was captured in a video beating a female attendant, Osimibibra Warmat, at a sex shop in Abuja. The assault was done in the presence of an armed policeman who, rather than protect the victim, arrested her.  The police later arraigned Abbo before a Magistrate Court in Zuba, on a one-count charge of assault. Despite video evidence of the incident, Abdullahi Ilelah, the Magistrate, upheld the no-case submission filed by the lawmaker and dismissed the case. However, Warmate instituted a separate civil suit at the FCT High Court and on September 28, Samira Bature, the presiding Judge, convicted Abbo and ordered him...

‘Fisayo Soyombo, ‘Fisayo Soyombo, an investigative journalist and former Editor of SaharaReporters, has been named winner of the Local Reporter category of the 2020 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism. Soyombo won the award for his undercover investigation on Nigeria’s criminal justice system funded by TheCable and the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR). ‘Fisayo Soyombo, Now a freelance journalist, Soyombo spent two weeks in detention — five days in a police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of arrest by the police to the point of release from prison.  To experience the workings of the system in its raw state, he adopted the pseudonym Ojo Olajumoke and feigned an offence for which he was arrested and detained in police custody, arraigned in court and eventually remanded in Prison.  The judges — comprising Tina Rosenberg, a Pulitzer Prize...

Diezani Alison-Madueke Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s request for more time to produce a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, to face her money laundering charges. The judge had on July 24, 2020, issued criminal summons against the ex-minster to appear in court to face trial. But Diezani, who is believed to have left the country for the United Kingdom shortly after leaving office in May 2015, had refused to heed to the summons. Diezani Alison-Madueke Due to the ex-ministers failure to honour the summons, the EFCC on October 28, 2020, urged the court to issue a warrant for her arrest. But the judge declined the request, citing the commission’s failure to enforce the criminal summons she had earlier issued against the defendant. She said the criminal summons ought to be sufficient for the commission to process her extradition to Nigeria to face her trial...

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have volunteered to take a coronavirus vaccine on camera if it helps promote public confidence. Obama, in an interview with SiriusXM radio, said he would be inoculated if top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci signs off on a Covid-19 vaccine. Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. “If Anthony Fauci tells me this vaccine is safe and can vaccinate, you know, immunize you from getting Covid, I’m going to take it,” Obama said. “I promise you that when it’s been made for people who are less at risk, I will be taking it,” he said. “I may end up taking it on TV or having it filmed, just so that people know that I trust this science, and what I don’t trust is getting Covid,” Obama said. Freddy Ford, Bush’s chief of staff, told CNN the former president also wanted to help promote vaccination. “First, the vaccines need to be deemed saf...

The Divisional Police Officer of Zuba division in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Wellington Omorogieva, has threatened to ‘deal’ with an Islamic cleric, Ismaeel Gbadamosi, and his wife, SaharaReporters has gathered. The threat, according to sources, followed an interview granted to SaharaReporters by Gbadomosi’s wife where she alleged that police officers from the division broke into their house around 10 pm on Tuesday, behaving precisely like kidnappers. See Also Police "Police Are Working With Kidnappers"—Woman Narrates Encounter With Police Who Broke Into Her Home Through Ceiling 0 Comments 13 Hours Ago According to the woman, when the officers led by one Isah Dahiru could not gain access to their home through the door, they broke the ceiling and jumped inside. “Last night, around 10om, we put on the generator because I was marking sone students’ exam scripts. My husband had slept. I heard a bang on the gate, thinking it was a neighbour. Maybe the...