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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday celebrated the release of the abducted students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara. Buhari, in a statement signed by Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, described their safe return as a big relief to their families, the entire country and the international community. The President assured  Nigerians of the determination of his administration to rescue all citizens held against their will by either terrorists or bandits. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Abducted Katsina Schoolboys Released 0 Comments 5 Hours Ago The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the release of kidnapped students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, describing their safe return as a big relief to their families, the entire country and international community. “In a short remark shortly after their release was announced, President Buhari expressed the nation’s appreciation for the steps tak...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have released all students abducted from Government Science Secondary School in the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, SaharaReporters has gathered. The students had been in the kidnappers’ den for six days. They are currently on their way to Katsina, sources told SaharaReporters. Sahara Reporters Media Gunmen, who came on motorbikes had last Friday, invaded the school’s premises around 11 pm shooting indiscriminately to scare residents. The operation led to the disappearance of over 300 students. Boko Haram had on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the attack. “Katsina Abduction Was Done To Discourage Western Education" – Boko Haram Claims Responsibility For Abduction Of School Pupils In New Audio LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO: https://t.co/At5WrXlL39 pic.twitter.com/SB1XVV91pj — Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) December 16, 2020 “They are on their way to Katsina, the military finalised the negotiations with them, th...

Yekini Nabena The ruling All Progressives Congress has accused a governor from one of the six North-West states as allegedly responsible for the intense upsurge of banditry and killings in the region. Mr Yekini Nabena, the APC acting National Publicity Secretary on Thursday, challenged “security agencies to investigate an intelligence report linking” the governor to the heightened cases of banditry, abductions and other violent crimes in the zone. Yekini Nabena Nabena, who did not name the governor because of the “security nature of the issue,” said the increased spate of banditry in the North-west was politically-motivated and not unconnected to the unnamed governor’s alleged sponsorship of banditry and other violent crimes in the zone. “Our security agencies have intelligence reports linking one of the Northwest governors of colluding and sponsoring the violent and criminal activities of bandits in the zone. “I won’t give details because of the sensitive nature of the iss...

Following the Federal Government’s directives on the harmonisation of citizens’ data by relevant agencies, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has announced a new directive requiring National Identification Number for citizens to get driver’s licence. Bisi Kazeem, Corps Public Education Officer, made the new announcement in a statement on Wednesday. FRSC Facebook Page According to Kazeem, all driver’s license applicants are to present their National Identification Number from December 21, 2020, before they can be attended to, adding that there would be no waiver for anyone. The statement read, “Following the Federal Government’s directives on the harmonisation of citizens’ data by relevant agencies, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) had in compliance with the directives earlier put members of the public on notice. “As a follow up to that, FRSC Management has resolved that effective December 21, all applicants for the National Driver’s Licence in Nigeria must pr...

Jerry Rawlings Ghana on Thursday postponed the funeral of its charismatic former president Jerry Rawlings, saying the delay was due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Rawlings, who died on November 12 at the age of 73, held sway for two decades, first as a military ruler and later as elected president. Jerry Rawlings His funeral was initially scheduled for December 23. But the foreign ministry, in a statement to diplomats and foreign agencies, said that “due to unforeseen circumstances, the funeral will not be held… as planned.” A new date will be announced later, it said. The statement gave no further details, but local media said a family dispute caused the postponement. A former air force flight lieutenant, Rawlings twice overthrew governments through coups in 1979 and 1981 but was widely seen by the poor as their champion. Ghana today is often considered a beacon of stability in a turbulent region. It held elections on December 7 which saw the incumbent president, Nana ...

On May 22nd 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari set up a Presidential Task Force Team on Apapa gridlock, with the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo as the chairman and Comrade Kayode Opeifa to serve as the vice chairman.  The objective of its establishment is to return normalcy to Apapa because of the incessant gridlock that is crippling the area, enforce discipline, introduce a workable manual call up system pending the introduction of electronic call-up system by NPA, Dvelip and Deoy a working traffic management system, coordinate and control trucks and tanker drivers who are designated to access the seaport to stay off the roads leading to the port. The presidential task force team comprises of Nigeria Police, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the combined team has been working to ensure the objectives of the establishment of PTT achieved. Kayode Opeifa identified some stakeholder’s behaviour as being responsible f...

Femi Adesina The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina; says he once told  President Muhammadu Buhari about the grumblings of some Nigerians regarding the skewed appointments in favour of the North. Adesina said the President responded by telling him that it would be wrong to deny competent appointments based on where they are from. Femi Adesina The President’s spokesman said this in an article titled, ‘Buhari at 78: If Only We Knew the President’. He said, “One day, the President had given me an appointment to announce in the early days of the administration. By then, some people had started talking of northernisation agenda. So I said, ‘Mr President, this is the murmur we hear. Why don’t you consider giving this position to another part of the country?’ “He looked at me calmly, smiled, and said: ‘If a search has been conducted for a position, and someone has been thrown up as the best candidate. And I then bypass him because of where he...

Garba Shehu The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says it took President Muhammadu Buhari nearly six months to form his cabinet in 2015 because he was meeting with permanent secretaries and heads of government agencies one after the other. Shehu said this in a birthday tribute to the President titled, ‘Anti-Corruption Hero, President Buhari Leads by Example’ on Thursday. Garba Shehu Classic FM, Abuja. He wrote, “Upon his assumption of office in May 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari sat at long meetings with teams led by permanent secretaries and heads of the various government agencies and departments. Those meetings took a few months to go round and were in effect, responsible for the delay in the appointment of ministers into his first cabinet. “Before his inauguration, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari wasn’t allowed to meet government officials, just as we witnessed in America recently, until the incumbent President agreed that...

File Photo A witness, Abbah Onoja, had told the panel probing cases of police brutality in Abuja, that the police tortured his co-detainee, Obinna Jonah, to death in Abuja on January 28, 2020. Onoja, who was called to testify in the case of alleged extra-judicial killing, lodged before the panel by the deceased person’s brother, Okechukwu Jonah, recalled that he was arrested along with his friend, Chizoba Samuel, at Anguwar Shehu, Karimo, Abuja on January 27, 2020. File Photo NHRC According to Punch, Onoja told the panel that the arrest took place at Samuel’s place, with the police accusing them of belonging to a cult called, Supreme Vikings Confraternity. He said Obinna was later arrested that same day, also on the allegation of being a cultist. The witness noted that they were all detained at the police Anti-One Chance Unit in Jabi, Abuja. According to him, the unit, headed by DSP Jumbo Jumbo, later moved to Abattoir, a police facility being occupied by the disbanded Sp...

Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration, Muhammad Babandede. A caterer, Mosopefoluwa Odeseye, has taken to the social media to reveal how the Nigeria Immigration Service denied her a passport on Wednesday. Odeseye, who provided food to protesters and helped in sourcing funds for a wounded protester, said she was informed that she had been blacklisted while trying to renew her passport at the Lagos Immigration office. Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration, Muhammad Babandede. @nigimmigration She tweeted, “First, it was the Central Bank locking up all my bank accounts, now it is Nigerian immigration not issuing my passport at Alausa! To what end, Nigeria? To what end? I applied for a re-issue at Alausa, captured some days ago and asked to come to pick today then I’m told that I have been blacklisted?”  First,it was @cenbank locking up all my bank accounts, now it is @nigimmigration not issuing my passport @ Alausa! To what end, Nigeria? To what end? ...

Olabisi Deji-Folutile In a rare admission of incompetence, Nigeria’s Education Minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu, a few days ago gave a damning report on the quality of graduates produced by the country’s higher institutions. According to the minister, many of these graduates can neither read nor write.   The minister spoke in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, during the inauguration of some completed school projects in the state.  Represented by the Director of Tertiary Education in the Federal Ministry of Education, Hajia Rakiya Gambo Iliyasu, the minister reportedly said: “Some graduates of tertiary institutions across the country cannot read or write applications.” He further asserted that some students and even graduates have been found to be unable to write one full sentence without multiple corrections needing to be made. Initially, I thought the minister was quoted out of context since he wasn’t physically present at the Yola event, so I gave him the benefit of ...