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The leader of Uganda’s main opposition party, Bobi Wine, has said his life and that of his wife are in danger as the President Yoweri Museveni government continues to keep them under house arrest. Wine said troops raided the headquarters of his party, National Unity Platform, on Monday as staff tried to prepare a legal challenge to Museveni’s declared victory in last week’s presidential election. Wine, who is himself under house arrest, told FRANCE 24 that he and his wife remain “in danger”. He said, “My wife and I are under house arrest. The military surrounded our house; more than 400 of them have surrounded our house. We are not allowed to leave; nobody is allowed to leave or to come in. We have run out of food. My wife was assaulted yesterday when she was trying to go to the garden to pick food. “My lawyers are not allowed to see me and party officials are also not allowed to visit me and also all journalists are blocked from coming to see me so we are isolated, myself a...

Eight people have lost their lives when villagers put up a strong resistance against bandits who invaded Dutsin Gari and Rayau villages of Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The development comes a few months after bandits abducted 40 worshippers, including the Imam in Dutsin Gari village during Friday prayers. An eyewitness, Malam Ibro Mamman, said the bandits who were on motorcycles invaded the Dutsin Gari village on Monday with the intention of abducting some people but were squarely faced by the villagers, the Punch reported. The villagers were said to have engaged the bandits in a fight which lasted several hours after which the bandits opened fire on the residents, leaving six persons dead. Mamman said, “When the bandits realised that they could not succeed in their nefarious activity, they opened fire and killed six people, injured many before they moved to a nearby village called Rayau. “In Rayau village, the bandits also faced similar challenges from the ...

The Niger Delta militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has threatened to resume hostilities against oil and gas operations in the region over an alleged employment scam in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). According to the MEND, they are ready to shatter the existing peace in the region within the next seven days if deployment letters are not issued to genuine and eligible indigent Niger Delta youths shortlisted by the NDDC from August 2019. The MEND, in a statement issued and signed by its spokesman, Gen. Gbomo Jomo, said the seven days ultimatum is to allow the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio; Sole Administrator of the NDDC, Effiong Okon Akwa; Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta, Senator Peter Nwaboshi; and every other person connected to the management of the NDDC to prevail on the Commission to issue employment letters to the youths who had been shortlisted. The statement by the group read, “Ou...

An agitator for Oodua Republic, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has called on the Nigerian government to evacuate Fulani herders from the South-West to prevent escalation of tension. Igboho disclosed this in a recent video circulating on social media. He said he was not concerned about Nigeria but about issues pertaining to Oduduwa Nation as he called on other patriots to join in the fight for the liberation of Oduduwa, often used to refer to Yoruba people collectively. Speaking in Yoruba, he said, “I cannot be discussing a country that cheats Yoruba people. We Yoruba should come together as one and send these people parking. No one will do it for us. Our senators are not doing anything. The senators watched herders kill a medical doctor who struggled, studied abroad. They killed a woman who built her own filling station and others. Should that be so?” Igboho said he was certain that Yoruba elders are not happy with the killings, however, he challenged th...

The Ondo State Government and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria on Monday agreed that children being used as herdsmen would henceforth be arrested by Amotekun operatives and their families made to pay a fine to the government. SaharaReporters also learnt that the meeting agreed that herdsmen should return to the various local government areas where they had been working and meet with the leadership of the Western Nigeria Security Network, also known as Amotekun Corps, to fish out the bad eggs and criminals posing as herders. A top MACBAN source in an interview with SaharaReporters relayed the details of the meeting between Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and MACBAN in Akure on Monday, but argued that there was no mention of herdsmen being banned from forest reserves within seven days. The MACBAN national official said, “The governor invited the leaders of MACBAN on Monday and they held a meeting between 11am and 1pm. They discussed issues of insecurity and th...