PRESIDENCY officials have asked the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to publish the names of all Fulani herdsmen currently undergoing trials across the country as the pressure mounts on the government to act on the deteriorating security situation.
Over recent months, the herdsmen saga has threatened to tear Nigeria apart as...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's official spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu has dismissed suggestions that the next inspector-general of police must come from the southeast geo-political zone as a matter of course in line with Nigeria's zoning principle.
Last month, President Buhari replaced all his service chiefs, appointing new...
TENSION is mounting across Ondo State as the seven-day deadline Governor Rotimi Akeredolu gave Fulani cattle herdsmen to vacate the local forests expired last night and the two sides are yet to thrash out an acceptable agreement.
Last week, Governor Akeredolu asked all Fulani herdsmen operating in the forests of Ondo State to leave as...
ONDO State government is set for a showdown with the presidency over the issue of Fulani cattle herdsmen as the ongoing dispute over the expulsion of pastoralists by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu heats up.
Earlier this week, Governor Akeredolu gave Fulani herdsmen operating in the forest areas of Ondo State seven days to leave....
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's administration appears to be finally coming round to the realisation that it needs to do something to curtail the activities of murderous Fulani herdsmen after presidential spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu admitted conceded that their movement needs to be checked.
Over recent years, the herdsmen have...
NIGERIA'S former ambassador to the US Justice Sylvanus Nsofor has passed away at a hospital in Maryland in the ripe old age of 85 after what appeared to be we brief illness associated with being elderly.
Justice Nsofor, a native of Imo State, was the oldest serving Nigerian diplomat at the time of his death and his...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu has dismissed calls for the sacking of Nigeria's service chiefs over their failure to tackle insecurity in the country pointing out that his principal is satisfied with their performance.
Over the weekend, 43 farmers were slaughtered by Boko Haram in Borno State in...
CALLS for there to be a comprehensive restructuring of Nigeria have intensified over the last 24 hours with the Northern Elders Forum (Nef) advising Nigerians not to be tired of making the demand despite the government's opposition to the concept.
Over recent years, there have been calls for a restructuring of Nigeria...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has categorically ruled out restructuring Nigeria during his tenure saying that his government will not succumb to blackmail and be intimidated into adopting a policy which it does not believe in.
On October 1, Nigeria clocked 60 and as part of the independence day debate, there were countless...
NIGERIA'S presidency has hit back at fears raised by a member of the British House of Lords Baroness Anne Cox who wrote to the Commonwealth Secretariat expressing her concerns over the escalating violence in the country asking it to intervene in the matter.
Over recent years, insecurity has grown in Nigeria with Boko Haram...
