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Some hoodlums on Tuesday vandalised the palace of the traditional ruler of Ode Community in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, Oba Sunday Boboye, destroying several properties. According to Punch, the incident was the second time in one week, as some youths allegedly burnt down the first palace of the monarch last week. After the attack, Oba Boboye was said to have moved to the second palace where he was allegedly attacked again on Tuesday. Punchng It was gathered that the attack was not unconnected with the land dispute between the Ode and its neighbouring Isinigbo community. According to an eyewitness, the hoodlums stormed the Ode Community about 12.05 am on Tuesday, shooting indiscriminately while everyone was asleep. Shortly after, they allegedly moved to the second palace of the traditional ruler where they continued the shooting. A resident of the community, who identified himself as Ayodeji Agbebi, said the community as a whole was awakened when th...

President Muhammadu Buhari and Yusuf Kasali Oladipo Power brokers in the Muhammadu Buhari administration are planning to appoint another northerner as a controller-general of Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS), instead of Yusuf Kasali Oladipo, an assistant controller who is the most senior officer. A source in the presidency told SaharaReporters that the plans were to disqualify and retire Oladipo, an indigene of Oyo State, from service based on a ‘cooked security reports’ from the Department of State Service (DSS). President Muhammadu Buhari and Yusuf Kasali Oladipo “Yusuf Kasali Oladipo is the most senior and the only candidate with the widest experience and exposure to all levels of our career and who has also worked in nearly all the geo-political zones in Nigeria amongst those invited for screening and exams. He is also the only candidate from the South West who took part in the process,” the source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said. “Despite directing the DS...

The Federal High Court sitting in Benin has fixed January 18 for judgment in a suit challenging the exclusion of the African Action Congress and its candidate, Edith Isokpan, in the September 19 governorship election in Edo State. Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission excluded AAC from political parties to contest the election even after the party had successfully conducted its primary election and produced Isokpan as its candidate. The primary election, which was peaceful and orderly, was witnessed by INEC officials. However, while releasing the list of parties approved to contest the election, INEC omitted AAC from the log without any concrete explanation. In a suit filed on July 27, the party alleged that Isokpan was excluded unlawfully, despite being the validly-nominated candidate of the party, in line with the Electoral Act. At the resumed hearing of the case on Monday, the presiding Judge questioned the longevity of the suit and fixed January 18, ...

A middle-aged resident of Damari in the Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State, Lawal Na Buhari, has lamented the growing insecurity and banditry in the state, saying he had now changed his name to Lawal Na Manzon Allah. Lawal, who shocked his community by printing posters and pasting them in the locality to announce his change of surname from Buhari to Manzon Allah, said this was in protest of the continuous killings. Katsina Post The resident lamented that the Federal Government, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, has not sufficiently addressed the growing insecurity. According to Katsina Post, the resident, Lawal Idi, was fondly called Lawal Na Buhari because of his love for President Buhari, but he announced that he should now be called Lawal Na Manzon Allah. “He printed posters carrying his picture and the announcement, which were pasted at multiple locations in the community. The posters were also widely distributed as pamphlets to the community members. “On t...

Fire service personnel were there to control the situation The office of the Ghana Electoral Commission in the Fomena Constituency was razed by fire in the early hours of Tuesday. The cause of the fire is unclear, but reports suggest it happened at the time some youth in the area were very agitated. Fire service personnel were there to control the situation GhanaWeb According to GhanaWeb, it was discovered that some disgruntled youth had attempted to enter the Coalition Centre because they had received information the commission was about to declare the results. Security officers at post, according to reports, intervened. JoyNews reporter, Nana Yaw Gyimah, reports that the office, which is about 200 metres away from the coalition centre, was later engulfed by fire. The incident has been brought under control as the fire service has succeeded in dousing the flame. Fomena Constituency has been in the spotlight after the incumbent Member of Parliament, Andrews Asiamah, who w...

President Donald Trump and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari during a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 30, 2018, in Washington. The United States Government, for the first time, placed Nigeria on a religious freedom blacklist, as Christian and Islamic groups in the country voice out a growing concern on insecurity and repression. The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, had on Monday designated Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” for religious freedom, the rare inclusion of a fellow democracy in the US effort to shame nations into action. President Donald Trump and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari during a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 30, 2018, in Washington. Saul Loeb / AFP – Getty Images The State Department, in its annual report earlier this year, gave some reasons why Nigeria should be designated, against the background of concerns, both at the federal and state levels. Pompeo ann...

File photo used to illustrate story. A global human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has said that over 10,000 people arrested in the context of the Boko Haram crisis have died in military custody since 2011, many of them in Giwa Barracks, Borno State. The AI lamented that up to 25 per cent of the casualties are older men and women who are most affected and vulnerable during Boko Haram and military raids on villages and communities. File photo used to illustrate story. Nichole Sobecki/AFP Amnesty disclosed these in its latest report on Tuesday – a 67-page report, titled, “My heart is in pain”: Older people’s experience of conflict, displacement, and detention in North-East Nigeria. The new report revealed that the Nigerian military had committed atrocities against older women and men, with nobody held to account. The report also focuses on how displaced older people are consistently overlooked by the humanitarian response and their current pathetic condition in ...

The Nigerian government has announced a reduction in the pump price of premium motor spirit, otherwise known as petrol, from N168 to N162.44 per litre with effect from December 14. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, disclosed this at the end of a meeting with labour leaders which began around 9 pm on Monday and ended at 1:30 am on Tuesday. The product presently dispenses at N168, following the decision of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company to increase the ex-depot price of petrol from N147.67 per litre to N155.17 per litre in November. The ex-depot price is the price at which the PPMC sells the product to marketers at the depots. The minister said a technical committee had been set up to ensure price stability in the industry. See Also Economy UPDATE: Again, Nigeria’s Economy Slips Into Recession Under Buhari-led Administration 0 Comments 2 Weeks Ago Ngige stated that the committee, which would report back to the larger house on January 25,...

File Photo No fewer than 216 Nigerians were killed in November, and 144 others kidnapped amid the rising insecurity in the country, according to data gathered by the Civic Media Lab. The data released on Monday showed that the Northern part of the country was the worst hit with its areas claiming 180 of the 216 deaths recorded within the period. File Photo Also, Borno State, which has been the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency, suffered the most attacks from the terrorists which claimed 131 people, including the highest single attack which claimed 110 lives.  A release by the Civil Media Lab said, “Insecurity in Nigeria keeps increasing instead of decreasing. Death now looks like a norm in Nigeria, most especially the northern part of the country. The data gathered by the civic media lab for November shows the rate at which death occurred in November and how kidnapping is slowly rising in the country. “The attack was faced mostly by the Northern region of the count...

File Photo Residents of Gudu and Tangaza local government areas of Sokoto State have recounted how bandits forced them to abandon their residence and seek refuge in the Niger Republic. They said the bandits would raid towns in the evening, and force them to collect huge sums or identify the rich among them to kidnap. File Photo of famers used to illustrate story. Speaking to BBC Hausa service, a resident of Kurdula village, who preferred not to be named for security reasons, said many of them now spend the nights in the Niger Republic and return in the morning. “The situation we find ourselves in the villages of Gudu and Tangaza local governments is indeed terrible. Every night, bandits will visit our villages with guns going house by house. If you don’t have money to give them, they will force you to show them a rich man in the village to kidnap him. Even yesterday (Sunday), they kidnapped two people, and they are yet to release them since they did not pay a ransom,” he...

File Photo A group of more than 150 collaborators, led by Campaign for Nature and Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), has called on governments and conservation leaders to include indigenous people in all biodiversity discussions.  The group said the current conservation approaches have colonial undertones and that without the inclusion of indigenous people in policy discussions, there would be no progress. File Photo RRI made the call in a report that has already been endorsed by Jose Francisco Cali Tzay, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It also sets out how to achieve them by empowering the Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendants who have customary land rights to at least half of the Earth. The study, conducted by RRI and produced in collaboration with the Campaign for Nature, shows that over 1.65 billion indigenous peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendants live in the world’s important biodiversi...

Chisom Adams, a 24-year-old man, suspected to be a Nigerian, has bagged a 40-month jail term for using a secret sex tape to blackmail his former girlfriend after they broke up. Adams, who had secretly taped the sex act with his older girlfriend, had recently demanded £3,000 from the mother of three, warning that if she failed to pay, he would release the video to all her children. According to Daily Mail, the victim, known as MM, had moved out of the country to another to avoid seeing him as she was nursing suicidal thoughts. However, Adams had sent the sex tape to the victim after which he sent a series of threatening messages on Facebook. The humiliated victim, who had been dating Adams for a year, offered to pay him £1,000 but instead went to the police and he was arrested. It was gathered that Adams had previously scrounged thousands of pounds from the victim on several occasions, threatened to stab her and stole a diamond ring from her. The sex video was not uploaded o...