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Pastor Tunde Bakare The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has slammed the Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government. Speaking during an Instagram Live Chat with popular journalist, Dele Momodu, Bakare said the President has not met the expectations Nigerians had when they elected him into office in 2015. Pastor Tunde Bakare Belle Naija The cleric bemoaned the lack of leadership, especially with the rising cases of kidnapping and killing, causing non-state actors to take the law into their own hands. He said, “We are praying hard that the country will survive and become strong again, this is not what we all call the Nigeria of our dreams. Nigeria will survive and will become the Nigeria of our dreams but right now, things are not together, especially with the drum of disintegration which is louder than before. “Nigeria is better together, if we go back together to the basics of how we came to...

The media aide to the Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, Dapo Salami, on Tuesday said the Commisioner for information in Ogun State, Waheed Odusile, who denied that the state government didn’t invite his boss to drive criminal Fulani herdsmen away from the state, lacked the right information. Salami said his principal had decided not to honour any invitation without an official backing again.  Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, through Odusile, had denied seeking Igboho’s help curb insecurity in the state. But Salami who spoke with some reporters in Ibadan on Tuesday said nobody was killed during his principal’s visit to Ogun State on Monday. He described rumours of violence in Ogun during Igboho’s visit as the work of some mischievous elements working against the interest of Yoruba nation. Citing the example of the incident in Igangan where nobody was killed during Igboho’s visit there, Salami said despite police report and the evicted Ser...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, on Tuesday, secured the conviction of one Oluwatobi Damilola Aina before Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan. The 26-year-old, who claimed to be a fashion enthusiast, was arrested on September 29, 2020, when the Commission got wind of his fraudulent activities and consequently charged him to court on one count bordering on impersonation. The Commision disclosed this in a statement by the Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, in Ibadan.  The charge reads, “That you, Oluwatobi Damilola Aina, sometime between the month of January and October 2020 at Ibadan within the Ibadan Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, falsely presented yourself as a female known as Namita Cooling.” He pleaded guilty to the charge. He was consequently convicted and sentenced to four months in prison. The court also ordered him to restitute items recovere...

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt General Yusuf Tukur Buratai. An Igbo group called Eastern Nigeria’s Rights and Intelligentsia Coalition says it will launch international and local justice campaigns against the former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai. The group alleged that the former Nigerian Army chief secretly executed six Igbo soldiers last Monday, a day to his retirement from service. One of the signatories of the international press statement, Nigerian lawer based in South Africa, Austin Okeke, revealed the position of the group to SaharaReporters on Tuesday. The group, which is an assemblage of intellectuals of Igbo extraction in Nigeria and overseas, said the action was to make the former Nigerian Army chief pay for allegedly killing the soldiers from the South-East, among other atrocious acts he allegedly committed while in office.   Okeke alleged that though Buratai was the biggest culprit, there other senior serving military and police officers t...

The International Press Centre (IPC) has expressed great concern over allegations of threats to life of Ibanga Isine, Nigerian investigative journalist and editor of an online newspaper, Next Edition.  SaharaReporters had earlier reported how Isine went into hiding following death threats to his life over a series of reports on the conflicts in Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State. It was gathered that many of the sources linked to him in the course of writing the reports were said to have died in controversial circumstances, a situation that compelled him to go into hiding for safety. About three sources who have been killed revealed the shadowy role played by the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, in the intercommunal clashes which occurred in Southern Kaduna, leaving several people dead in the past year. The journalist, who has spent about a week in hiding, told the Safety Alert Desk of the IPC, that he was forced to abandon his home after the death threats became intolerable....

Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu The Abia State Government has accused herders of kidnapping citizens of the state. John Okiyi Kalu, the state Commissioner for Information, made the allegation in a statement on Monday. Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu Kalu said the herdsmen also destroyed farmland in the state, with their cows “grazing openly in violation of extant laws of the state and Nigeria”. The commissioner said Governor Okezie Ikpeazu had directed security operatives to investigate the destruction of farmland and the kidnapping cases in some communities in the state. The statement read, “Abia State Government wishes to condemn in its entirety the recent destruction of farmland by cows grazing openly in violation of extant laws of the state and Nigeria. “It also condemns, without reservations, the activities of criminal herdsmen suspected to have masterminded the recent brazen kidnap of innocent citizens around Abia North Senatorial Zone of the state. “Consequen...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a suspected cocaine trafficker, Ukaegbu Bright Onyekachi, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos. The suspect, who arrived in Nigeria on board Ethiopian Airlines from São Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, was nabbed with 3.30 kilogrammes of the illicit drug during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines at the E arrival hall of the MMIA. NDLEA commander at MMIA, Ahmadu Garba, said the drug was concealed in T-shirt stickers. He said, “The hard drug was cleverly concealed in T-shirt stickers but he was nabbed by eagle-eyed detectives.” This comes barely a week after the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mohammed Buba Marwa, directed the commanders of the agency in all states and special commands to rid the country of illicit drugs.   Drugs News AddThis :  Original Author :  Saharareporters, New...

Senator Kabiru Gaya The senator representing Kano South Constituency, Senator Kabiru Gaya, has said he will support a president that emerges from the southern part of the country in 2023. Gaya also stated that the next president of the country to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari should come from the southern part of Nigeria, describing the rotation of the presidency as a fair gesture. Senator Kabiru Gaya He disclosed this at a forum organised by the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday. There has been a political debate as to the region of the country to produce the next occupant of Aso Presidential Villa in 2023. Among those believed to be eyeing the highest political seat in the country is the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Also, the caucus of politicians across party divides from the South-East has unanimously agreed recently to present someone of Igbo extraction to vie for presidency in 2023, as the region has not tasted the highe...

Illustration Nigeria is set to receive 57 million doeses of Covid-19 vaccine over the next few months, the authorities say. They have asked for a four-fold increase on their previous request for 10 million doses from the African Union. Illustration “We have applied for 41 million doses of a combination of Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines,” Faisal Shuaib, who heads the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, told the Reuters news agency. According to the BBC, an additional 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are expected in February from the World Health Organisation-backed Covax programme. As Nigeria fights a second wave of Covid-19, officials are looking to multiple sources to secure more vaccines to inoculate its enormous population. During a press conference in the capital, Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, also said the country’s drug agency was looking into vaccines from Russia and India. So f...

File Photo Residents of Ayete, a town in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State, have alleged that a Fulani warlord, Iskilu Wakili, has continued to kill and maim their people. The residents, especially farmers, alleged that Wakili had taken over all their farms and mounted no cross-zone on them following the eviction of the Seriki Fulani of Igangan, Abdulkadir Saliu, from the area, in a bid to send warnings to the people of the town that he cannot be evicted.  File Photo Punchng According to The Punch, Wakili was also accused of shooting farmers who trespassed the no cross-zone. Wakili, a Fulani herdsman, is said to be more infamous than the ejected Seriki Fulani. Farmers and residents of Ibarapaland have accused him of displacing them from their farms by forcefully invading their farms with cattle. It was gathered that Wakili, who is said to be the leader of the herdsmen in the Ayete area of Ibarapaland, work with dozens of herders who are his disciples. Together with his bat...

Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday showed up at the Force headquarters in Abuja wearing his uniform despite the fact that he has attained the statutory age of retirement, SaharaReporters has gathered. Adamu, who was officially due for retirement on Monday, has refused to hand over the reins of leadership to the most senior officer as expected. Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu SaharaReporters gathered that police officers at the Force headquarters were upset and shocked when the IGP appeared at the Louis Edet House in uniform. “He’s still here now, he refused to hand over despite not given an extension by the President, he is a lawless man,” a police officer said. The President was supposed to convene a meeting of the Police Council which has the mandate to appoint a new IG but that had not been done as of time of filing this report. However, findings indicate that the co...