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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has strongly condemned the grievous assault of a female Police Officer, Inspector Teju Moses, by her principal who is a Legal practitioner and human rights activist, Prof. Zainab Duke Abiola and her domestic staff comprising the house maid, one Rebecca Enechido and a male suspect currently at large.  Zainab Duke, an Mbaise born activist, grievously assaulted her orderly in company of some accomplices on Tuesday 20th September, 2022 at her residence in Garki, Abuja, due to the refusal of the orderly to breach professional ethics by carrying out menial and domestic chores at her house.  The IGP has directed the express prosecution of the arrested suspects who are currently in Police custody, as the preliminary investigation shows overwhelming evidence of culpability on the part of the Professor and her domestic staff. The IGP has equally tasked the investigative team to ensure that the fleeing suspect is arrested and made t...

The Northeast Governors’ Forum (NEGF), comprising of the Governors of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno Gombe, Taraba and Yobe States, have held its 7th meeting in Gombe, Gombe State.  At the meeting, the governor's of the Six states of the region expressed delight at the growing strength of the cooperation, collaboration and cordial relationship between them, and they reiterated their commitment to foster a common ground and pursue collective course for the benefit of the region.  After exhaustive deliberations, the forum resolved and presents the following Communique: 1. The Forum, lauded President Muhammadu Buhari and the security agencies for the effort in combating the Boko haram insurgency. It noted the improvement in the security situation in the region which had largely been achieved through kinetic and non-kinetic measures. 2. The Forum, noted the relative peace being experienced in the subregion, especially the reduced incidences of Farmer- herder clashes, as encouraging. Howev...

The Kano state government is going to spend over N1.2 billion on the construction of roundabouts, rehabilitation and maintenance of various metropolitan roads which are in a state of disrepair as a result of the prevailing heavy downpour occasioned by floods. The state commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who stated during the weekend, said some roundabouts that included ones at A A Rano Filling Station and First Bank, among others, have also been slated for reconstruction. He added that a technical committee comprising of engineers from the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, the state Urban Planning and Development Agency as well as other Ministries, Department and Agencies has been constituted to study the situation for an urgent action. Malam Garba said the committee has already reached out to the contracting firms some of which have been mobilized to undertake the project. The commissioner added that eight clusters of roads have been earmarked for the rehabilitati...

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, had on Wednesday, 14th September 2022  distributed a grant of N100m as empowerment to 1,000 unemployed youths from different wards in Biu Local Government Area.  The grant is meant to be used as start-up capital for micro and small businesses and to stimulate the economy of Biu, Zulum said when he flagged off the distribution at Kadafur Cinema in Biu town. .  During the 3-day  visit to Biu which kicked off yesterday, Zulum commissioned a Mega-size Government Secondary School in Buratai village inside Biu for 1,500 students. He also opened a higher Islamic school for 1,200 students and zonal monitoring and evaluation department.  The N100m grant to 1,000 unemployed youths was the fourth of Zulum’s activities in Biu. The governor said government must sustain its fight to reduce unemployment and to fight poverty, citing that poverty played a crucial role in the emergence of Boko Haram. He noted that his administration was...

The Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum has today Wednesday, 14th September 2022 in commissioned a 60-classroom community school for higher Islamic studies, built and donated by the state government in Biu Local Government Area.  Zulum arrived Biu town on Tuesday and passed the night, before today’s commissioning of the higher Islamic school.  The Higher Islamic school system enables students with certain level of Quranic knowledge, gained from traditional Islamiyas, to transit into western education for diploma programmes, and the diplomas can qualify them for admissions into universities and other tertiary schools.  The commissioned school was initiated and run by community members in an aged building, before Zulum approved the construction of an entirely new and far bigger-size school from scratch to finish.  After commissioning the school, Governor Zulum handed over a cheque of N40m to proprietor of the school, Alhaji Mohammed ‘Young’ Kidda.  T...

Troops of Operation Forest Sanity neutralized several bandits and dislodged camps during clearance operations conducted across some hard-to-reach locations spanning Chikun and Igabi LGAs. As disclosed in an operational feedback, the troops neutralized an unspecified number of bandits while clearing out insurgent and bandit camps at Apewohe in Chikun LGA. The operation extended to Dakwala and Kunai hills in the same LGA, where more hideouts were cleared, though no contact was made with bandits.  Another camp was similarly dislodged at a location known as 'Daban Lawal Kwalba' in Igabi LGA, after the troops overpowered heavily armed bandits guarding hostages.  The troops after clearing out the bandits stormed the hideouts and rescued ten kidnapped persons who were chained and bound with ropes. The images attached depict the dire situation in which the hostages were found.  The troops untied the hostages, who were identified as follows:  - Surajo Aliyu - Ayuba Yakubu - I...

On Friday, 2nd September 2022, the Muslim Community of the "Olabisi Onabanjo University  OOU have commissioned a newly built ultra-modern mosque in the campus. The mosque was named as "As-Sujood Mosque. The University’s new mosque situated was singlehandedly built by a Muslim philanthropist and the immediate past Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the university’s Governing Council, Alhaja Tamramat Mosun Belo-Olusoga, The beautiful edifice was commissioned by the National Missioner of Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Sheikh AbdurRahman Ahmad, and saw in attendance dignitaries from within and outside the university community. In his sermon, Sheikh Ahmad implored the users of the new mosque to sustain its purpose, which is to worship and further stated “the Mosque is not meant only for Salat; it is must be an educational centre, a place to dispense justice, a place for recreation, a place to rest from stress, a place of serenity, a reconciliation centre and a place to bring soc...

Hindu religious cleric identified as "Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru have been arrested by the Indian Police for raping two minor schoolgirls at his seminary. He was arrested on Thursday, 1st September 2022, six days after a complaint which was filed against him sparked protests in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It was gathered that 'Sharanaru has denied the allegations and called it a conspiracy, he was charged to court on Friday and was remanded to 14-day judicial custody. The 64-year-old Hindu cleric has been charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.  The police have also invoked the Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribe Atrocities Act against him after one of the survivors said she was a Dalit — formerly known as untouchables under India's caste hierarchy. Sharanaru heads the Murugha Mutt in Chitradurga city. It runs more than 150 spiritual and educational institutions across the state. A case was filed against him on 26 August ...

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has joined his counterparts across the globe at the 3rd United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS) in the United States of America. The event, which is the third of its kind, is a global platform that brings together Heads of Police Organizations from around the globe to discuss ways of strengthening global security and addressing cross-border threats through the unifying power of national and United Nations policing. The UNCOPS is an illustration of inclusive multilateralism at work.  The IGP, on 1st of September, 2022, addressed the summit under the theme Fostering Sustainable Peace and Development through United Nations Policing where he admonished the United Nations to make policies that will promote sustainable peace and development amongst its member nations, and continuously render necessary assistance towards improved policing system across the globe. He equally assured of the Nigeria Police commitment to extendin...

A chieftain of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in and former member of the People's Democratic Party in Oyo state, Chief Bisi Olopoeyan has explained his special admiration for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Olopoeyan, who was a former leader of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, stated that although he is not in the same party with Tinubu, he sees him as someone who has fought relentlessly for many people. In an interview with a local-based outlet — Water Radio monitored by The Nation, Chief Bisi Olopoeeyan stated that  "Tinubu is a good person. I know him personally but we've not had official dealings together" I've seen so many people who have emerged through him. I do not hate him because when you see someone who is thriving, and people are thriving through him too, then you'll know he's a good person. He added that he may not belong to the same party with Tinibu but he respect him very m...

People from around the world have yesterday, Wednesday 31st August 2022 pasted each other with tomatoes as part of the Spanish festival celebration known as "LA TOMATINA"  held on the last day of August every year, in the eastern town of Buñol. It has been two years since the even was last celebrated due to Covid-19 restrictions. People on trucks unloaded 130 tonnes of overripe tomatoes along the main street of the town for participants crammed below to throw, leaving the area drenched in red pulp on Wednesday. Up to 20,000 people paid 12 euros ($12) each to take part in the festival. The town’s streets were hosed down and the revellers showered off within minutes after the hour-long noon battle. The festival which was celebrated, on the last Wednesday of August every year, was inspired by a food fight between local children in 1945 in the town, located in a tomato-producing region. Media attention in the 1980s turned it into a national and international event, drawing partic...

Recently, there has been a rapid emergence of a dangerous new psychoactive substance known as Akuskura/Kuskura, which is made of herbs laced with tobacco and cannabis and which is rapidly replacing controlled psychoactive substances, dominantly in the northern and south-west parts of Nigeria. When taken, the substance sometimes causes sudden, violent, irregular movement of the body and contraction of muscles. The name Akuskura, sometimes known as kuskura or akurkura, is derived from the Hausa word "kuskura" noun, which can be used interchangeably to mean gargling and rinsing. The substance, which is of different varieties, is used in both liquid and powdered form by people who mostly seek to raise their levels of psychological or nervous activity in the body, or put it in simple terms, get high. Akuskura came into the front-line  on social and conventional media when the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, intercepted over seven thousand bottles of the illicit substa...