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*Tor Tiv Challenges Notion Of Coexisting With Herders, Likens It To Living With Warriors By Sam Tyav, Makurdi President Bola Tinubu has assured that he would work with other stakeholders to bring lasting peace to Benue State in particular and Nigeria generally. Speaking in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, during a town hall meeting with stakeholders in the state, President Tinubu, who commiserated with the government and people of the state over the unrelenting killings, noted that his administration was interested in unity and peace of the people, insisting that Federal Government would restore permanent peace in the land. The…

By Sani Bala Karo, Kano In a spirited move by Kano State Government to rid the state of open defecation habit, the state, through its Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA), distributed more sanitation and campaign materials to six Local Governments (LGs), thus coming closer to achieving the enviable status of being Open Defecation-Free (ODF). The LGs are Doguwa, Tudun Wada, Sumaila, Bebeji, Bunkure and Tofa. Speaking during the presentation, Managing Director (MD) of the Agency, Engr. Shamwilu Abdulkadir Isa called on people of the state to continue to imbibe the culture of our decent ways and manners of…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, re-arraigned the Bauchi State's Accountant General, Sirajo Muhammad Jaja before Justice O.A. Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja.  Jaja was arraigned alongside a bureau de change operator, Aliyu Abubakar whose trading name is Jasfad Resources Enterprise.    Other defendants at large  are: Abubakar Muhammed Hafiz,  Ari Manga and Muhammed Aminu Bose. They are facing prosecution on a five-count amended charge bordering on money laundering, stealing and conversion of public funds to the tune of N1,488,425,629.000 (One Billion, Four Hundred and Eighty-eight Million, Four Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand, Six Hundred and Twenty-nine Naira only). Count two of the charge reads: “That you Aliyu Abubakar…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Lawmaker representing Atiba State Constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly and Chief Whip of the House, Hon. Gbenga Oyekola, has congratulated fathers particularly, in his constituency, Oyo Zone and the state in general, on the occasion of the celebration of this year's Father’s Day. In a message made available to journalists from his office in Oyo, Hon. Oyekola appealed to fathers to continue to inject the right moral values into their children, in order to make them fulfil their God-given potentials in life. According to the Oyo-born lawmaker, Father's Day is an opportunity for…

There would be no further pilgrimage to Israel until the Israel/Iran conflict is resolved. This position was taken by the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), according to a report in the government-run News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The Commission's Executive Secretary, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, June 17, in Abuja,the nation's capital. The statement was signed by Deputy Director/Head, Media and Public Relations, NCPC, Mr Celestine Toruka. The NCPC is the statutory body responsible for coordinating Christian pilgrimages from Nigeria to Israel and other holy sites worldwide. Adegbite, while addressing circulating reports claiming that Nigerian…