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*Amnesty International Says 52 Dead So Far, Blasts Govt For Allegedly Abandoning Vulnerable Communities To Their Fate *Some People Still Missing -Survivor *Police Speak *Taraba ADC 2027 Guber Candidate Tasks Govt On Safety Of Citizens By Okerafor Athanasius, Jalingo, and agency reports The death toll from Friday's attack on a village in Karim Lamido Local Government Area (LGA) of Taraba State has risen to at least 48, police told the BBC. The police had initially reported 10 deaths after unidentified gunmen on motorcycles raided the village of Binnari, looting shops and setting houses ablaze. More bodies were discovered on Sunday…

*Northern Political Leaders, Traditional Rulers, Islamic Clerics Solidly Behind You - Yari tells Tinubu *'Yari Fails To Recognize Millions Of Voters In The Region ... Interestingly, The Leaders He Mentioned Each Has Just One Vote Under Electoral Law 2026' *Makinde To Tinubu: Nigerians Hungry Under Your Govt, Yet You Talk Of Foreign Reserves Do not let anyone deceive you; fuel subsidy cannot be restored as it is gone for good. That was the message President Bola Tinubu sent to Nigerians when he kicked off his 2027 re-election campaign in Kaduna yesterday (Saturday). A mammoth crowd turned out to witness the…

*'It's A Bailable Offence' By Okerafor Athanasius, Jalingo Barely one month after his arrest and detention at the Jalingo correctional facility for allegedly defaming Taraba State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas, and his 2027 election running mate, Hajia Zainab Abubakar Ibrahim, the Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Jalingo has granted bail to Facebook (Fb) user, Fonya Sule, for the alleged action. The court held that the offence is bailable. Our correspondent gathered that Mr. Sule was arrested and detained on 12 August, 2026 for posting on his Fb page that "the All Progressives Congress (APC) 2027 running mate to Governor…

*Nothing Definitive Yet, But Health Officials Now Investigating Whether She May Have Crossed Paths With Kenyan Man Who Died From Ebola And Had Travelled Through Uganda's Main Airport Same Day *WHO Contradicts Nigeria On Woman's Health Condition, Says 'She's Improving' Fresh information has emerged on the woman diagnosed with the dreaded Ebola in Abuja as Switzerland's Foreign Ministry has confirmed that she is the wife of a Swiss diplomat. The development came as bickering broke out among Nigeria, World Health Organization (WHO), Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC), on one hand, and Uganda, the 42-year-old woman's country, on the other,…

*'Pay Your Bills Within 14 Days, Or We Remove, Seal, Impound Billboards' The Department of Outdoor Advertisement and Signage (DOAS) of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has embarked on a comprehensive first party and third party compliance drive and enforcement exercise to clean up and sanitize outdoor advertising practice in the nation's capital. The exercise targets first party billboards - billboards not more than five meters from business premises owned by companies to advertise their products - whose owners have also failed to pay their statutory bills; and third party billboards - owned by outdoor advertisement practitioners that are wrongly…