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Chief Amusa Akinade Ajani, the Baale of Shasha Village The Baale of Shasha village, Chief Amusa Ajani, on Friday said those ascribing the creation of Shasha market to Hausa communities are liars who do not know the history of the market. He said the market was created by Ford Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation through the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Chief Amusa Akinade Ajani, Baale of Shasha Village The traditional leader who spoke with SaharaReporters on Friday explained that the market was established to compensate the women in Shasha. He said, “Over 60 years ago, the Federal Government was trying to get a specific space of land with certain qualities for IITA. This is where they were able to get it in Nigeria. So, they approached us to leave the place but we said no because they had driven us away from Eleyele, which made us relocate to the University of Ibadan.   “They also asked us to leave the University of Ibadan and we moved to thi

Chief Amusa Akinade Ajani, the Baale of Shasha Village Chief Amusa Akinade Ajani, the Baale of Shasha Village, on Friday said the community would not allow the government or individuals to move the troubled Shasha market to another location in the state. He said truly there was a problem and it had been resolved between the two aggrieved groups. Chief Amusa Akinade Ajani, the Baale of Shasha Village The traditional chief who spoke with SaharaReporters at his Shasha residence in the Akinyele Local Government Area of Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, said he heard that Hausa traders had gone to Iroko in the same local government.  He said the community would accept that. Iroko is one of the villages surrounding Ibadan.  Shasha market has been in the news in the past one week following a clash between Yoruba and Hausa communities, which led to the burning of houses and the killing of an unknown number of people. The Baale of Shasha, while addressing traders in the market, plead

Illustration Gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly kidnapped no fewer than 17 married women in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to Katsina Post, the women were intercepted on Thursday on their way to a wedding ceremony. Illustration “The incident happened when the women were on their way from Unguwar Rimi village to Garin Maigora town to attend a wedding ceremony,” the newspaper quoted a source as saying. The source stressed that all the women were carrying babies as at the time they were abducted. The source revealed that one woman and her baby were released by the bandits due to the ill health of the baby. A resident of the area further disclosed that the security situation in the area had deteriorated. He added that all the villages in the western part of Faskari town were deserted due to the activities of the bandits, adding that it is only Bilbis town that is left. He noted that if no concrete action was taken in the next few we

Two petitioners at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Restitution and Inquiry have been awarded N10 million each as compensation over cases of police brutality, especially involving officers of the now defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The two petitioners, Kudirat Abayomi and Hannah Olugbodi, were awarded the compensation on Friday. According to Punch, the panel also recommended the prosecution of the erring police officers in the case involving Abayomi. Apart from the N10 million compensation to the family of Abayomi, who was killed by a police stray bullet in April 2017, scholarships were also awarded to the children of the deceased. The panel also recommended that a letter of apology be written to the family of the deceased by the police. Olugbodi, a 35-year-old hairdresser, had in November 2020, narrated how she ended up using crutches after her left leg was shattered by a stray bullet fired by some men of the disbanded police Special Anti-Robbery Squad who were attemp

Bola Ahmed Tinubu A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has said the West African region will not be too small to contain Nigerians if there is a crisis leading to a mass exodus in Nigeria. Nigeria has witnessed renewed cases of insecurity and inter-ethnic clashes in recent times with clamour for secession also gaining strength in some quarters. Bola Ahmed Tinubu Speaking at the eighth-day Fidau prayer for the late Lateef Jakande, first civilian governor of Lagos State on Friday, Tinubu said there was a need to stop treading the warpath in the country. He warned against ethnic conflicts in the country, noting that should such snowball into a full-blown crisis and there is a need to vacate Nigeria, the entire West African region will not be too small to accommodate Nigerians. He said: “Nigeria is currently facing a crisis; a crisis of insurgency, banditry in all aspects of security, but God Almighty that made this country as one of the larges