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Sunday, 28 March 2021 05:23

Myanmar forces kill scores in deadliest day since coup

As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade Saturday in the country’s capital, soldiers and police elsewhere killed scores of people while suppressing protests in the deadliest bloodletting since last month’s coup. The online news site Myanmar Now reported late Saturday that the death toll had reached 114. A count issued by an independent researcher in Yangon who has been compiling near-real time death tolls put the total at 107, spread over more than two dozen cities and towns. That’s more than the previous high on March 14, which ranged from 74 to 90. The…

Saturday, 27 March 2021 05:32

Fuel price won’t go up until negotiations with labour concluded - NNPC

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it will maintain the current ex-depot price of premium motor spirit (PMS), better known as petrol, until the end of negotiations with organised labour. Kennie Obateru, group general manager, group public affairs division of NNPC, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. This development comes after Mele Kyari, NNPC general managing director (GMD), said NNPC could no longer bear the cost of subsidy on its books. Kyari had said NNPC paid between N100-120 billion a month to keep the pump price at the current levels. In the statement, Obateru said although the NNPC currently…

Saturday, 27 March 2021 05:30

Court awards N100m to ex-Ondo deputy gov over unlawful acts by security agencies

A Federal High Court has declared unlawful the act by some policemen who prevented the immediate past Ondo Deputy Governor Ajayi Agboola from exiting the Government House between 7pm on June 20 and 9am on June 21, 2020 over suspicion he planned to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC). F. A. Olubanjo of the Akure division of the Federal High Court, held in a judgment the action of the security officials amounted to a disregard of rule of law and a violation of the constitutional provisions that guarantee citizens’ rights to movement, dignity, among others. Olubanjo, who awarded N100million…

Friday, 26 March 2021 05:29

Nigerians traveling to any of these 8 countries require NDLEA clearance

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says the visa clearance requirement policy is only applicable for eight countries. The agency was reacting to reports that it introduced a levy as visa clearance requirement for Nigerians travelling outside the country. In a statement, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA’s director of media and advocacy, said the policy is not new and has been in existence for 24 years. He added that the requirement is only applicable to people travelling to eight countries, and is part of efforts to address drug trafficking. “The anti-drug law enforcement agency wishes to state as follows: that the policy…

Thursday, 25 March 2021 05:33

Northern Elders to Buhari: Nigeria falling apart, in very serious danger

Director, Publicity and Advocacy, Northern Elders’ Forum, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari is too slow in tacking insecurity. Baba-Ahmed, who spoke on Arise Television yesterday, wondered why it was taking Buhari’s administration so long to tackle insecurity. He said: “If I’ve an opportunity to speak with the president, I’d say: ‘Sir, please, wake up and smell the coffee, this country is falling apart. It’s in very serious danger; it’s going down under your watch. You swore in 2015 and again in 2019 that you’d protect citizens, the territorial integrity of Nigeria. Sorry, sir, you’re not doing that,…

Thursday, 25 March 2021 05:32

Ban on open grazing by govs turned herders to bandits - Miyetti Allah

Saleh Alhassan, national secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, says some bandits are herders who became radicalised after they lost cattle as a result of the ban by some governors on open grazing. He stated this in an interview with Punch on Wednesday. Alhassan also tackled Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano, for his position on the relocation of herders. In January, Ganduje said there should be a law banning movement of cattle from the north to the south. The governor also said his administration was already constructing a settlement with houses, a dam, an artificial insemination centre, and a veterinary…

Thursday, 25 March 2021 05:30

Soldiers kill 11 gunmen in fierce firefight in Abia

No fewer than 11 suspected men of the underworld were feared dead when soldiers engaged them in fierce gun battle Tuesday night in Aba, commercial hub of Abia State. This is even as a policeman was reported to have shot dead his colleague also in Aba yesterday morning. The killings came barely few weeks after gunmen killed some policemen in nearby Abayi, World Bank Estate Police Station and 48 hours after three policemen were ambushed and murdered by hoodlums in Abiriba, Ohafia Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that gunmen numbering about 50 at about 8.30pm on…

Thursday, 25 March 2021 05:27

FG warns of devastating floods this year

Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency on Wednesday advised the three tiers of government and citizens across the country to prepare against impending devastating floods in 2021. Director-General, NIHSA, Clement Nze, who gave the advice at a press conference in Abuja, said this was because Nigeria was at the receiving end of disastrous floods among the nine countries of the River Niger Basin. He said, “There is still time for states/LGAs (Local Government Areas) and individuals to take necessary steps to avert or minimise the disastrous effects of flood in 2021. “As the country gradually steps into the 2021/2022 Hydrological Year in…

Thursday, 25 March 2021 05:24

North Korea fires at least two ballistic missiles into sea

North Korea launched at least two projectiles suspected by Japan to be ballistic missiles on Thursday, officials in Seoul, Tokyo and Washington said, the first such test reported since U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January. North Korea’s ballistic missiles are banned under United Nations Security Council Resolutions, and if the launch is confirmed it would represent a new challenge to Biden’s efforts to engage with Pyongyang, which have so far been rebuffed. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported at least two “unidentified projectiles” were fired into the sea from North Korea’s South Hamgyong Province on the east…

Wednesday, 24 March 2021 05:53

UN warns of famine risks in Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan

Millions of people in conflict-hit Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria are at risk of famine in the coming months or already facing it, two United Nations agencies warned Tuesday. Existing acute food insecurity, heavy constraints on humanitarian access, conflict, economic blows and climate shocks mean "urgent and at-scale targeted humanitarian action is needed to prevent hunger or death" in these areas, the groups said in a joint report. The three areas were among 20 "hunger hotspots" identified by the World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) where existing acute food insecurity risks deteriorating further by July.…

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Wednesday, 24 March 2021 05:52

CBN leaves benchmark rate unchanged, denies new FX policy

Nigeria’s central bank held its benchmark lending rate at 11.5% on Tuesday, said Governor Godwin Emefiele, who also denied that the country is adopting a new foreign exchange management policy. The rate decision would allow the bank “to deploy liquidity into employment generation and output-stimulating sectors of the economy,” Emefiele said, speaking at a briefing to announce the decision. “This would help consolidate the country’s recovery process,” he said. The bank cut rates twice last year to try to stimulate an economy that has been hobbled by the Covid-19 pandemic and an oil price crash. A third of Nigeria’s workforce…

Wednesday, 24 March 2021 05:48

Buhari hosts Ortom in Aso Rock over assassination attempt

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja met behind closed doors with Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state, who escaped attack by gunmen while on inspection of his farm. Ortom was attacked by some unknown gunmen last Saturday while on inspection of his farm along Makurdi-Gboko road. While reacting to the incident on Sunday, Buhari welcomed the dispatch of a high level team of crack investigators to Benue from the police headquarters in Abuja, urging the officers to uncover who, or whatsoever, was behind the attacks and bring them to justice. He also expressed his sympathy and that of the…

Wednesday, 24 March 2021 05:46

Army chief to secessionists: We’re coming for you

The military, yesterday, read the riots act to individuals and groups threatening to destabilise the corporate existence of Nigeria to drop their plans or face the firepower of security forces. This followed the rising seccessionist agitation in some parts of the country, spearheaded by leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kalu in the South East, Sunday Igboho in the South West, Asari Dokubo in the South South, and insurgents and bandits in the north. Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Ibrahim Attahiru spoke at the first Commanding Officers’ Workshop 2021 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom. The army chief while calling on participants to commit…

Wednesday, 24 March 2021 05:42

Northern elders: Attacks on Fulani communities in southern Nigeria must stop

Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has condemned the attacks on Fulani communities in southern part of Nigeria. “At the most minimal level, attacks on Fulani communities who live peacefully with communities in the South must stop,” spokesperson of the group, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, said in a statement on Monday. He said no Nigerian should be threatened or ordered to leave any part of the country. “Elected leaders must rise to their responsibilities of protecting citizens and their property,” he added. The Northern group also alleged moves to blackmail some groups because of the 2023 elections. Baba-Ahmed described the nationalist wave sweeping the…

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