Akure—AFTER reducing the ransom demanded for the release of kidnapped Ondo State civil servants to N10 million, their families have been given a 24-hour deadline to pay or they would be killed.

LAGOS—NATIONAL Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has lampooned the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Jimi Agbaje who is advocating freedom for Lagos State.

OF recent, General   Abdulsalami Abubakar, former military Head of State who ushered in the current civilian democratic governance, which is in its 20th year, has been in the news. His National Peace Committee got the 2019 presidential candidates to sign a peace accord or rather an accord for peace. Wonderful gesture! This is actually not the first time, this committee that seems to have no tenure limit has gone on its missionary assignment of preaching peace in the nation. They did so in the lead up to the 2015 elections and got Jonathan and Buhari to sign an accord for peace. I also noticed that at the heat of the Cattle-Fulani/Herders conflict that threatened to consume Nigeria, they were active in preaching peace and arranging some meetings. 

ABUJA—DEPUTY Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday denied media report that he was on the list of Nigerians barred from traveling out of the country on the request of the Special Presidential Investigative Panel on the Recovery of Public Property.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, rose in strong support of the Amnesty International report that indicted the Federal Government for failing to stop the killing of 3,641 Nigerians by herdsmen in the last three years.

All seems not to be too well with the Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) going by the feelers reaching us.

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THE Vice-Presidential debate was a fascinating opportunity to see and understand the philosophies of Nigeria’s two main political parties (APC and PDP). During one of the most commented upon segments, Peter Obi, the PDP Vice-Presidential candidate, criticised the rise of unemployment and the slump in Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, reinforcing his earlier remark: “fighting corruption is not an economic policy”.

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities to call off the industrial action embarked upon by its members in the overall interest of the nation.

The International Organization for Migration IOM, has cautioned Africans particularly Nigerians to uphold their dignity by not embarking on irregular migration but explore their God-given talents to develop the nation.

The Nigerian Air Force last night announced the shocking death of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex‪ander Badeh in the hands of unknown gun men.

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ONE of the few things for which the 2018 debate for the vice presidential slot will be long remembered are the quips round the fight against corruption. Peter Obi, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate had, while arguing that corruption is not an economic policy, gone on to add that one cannot close one’s shop to chase thieves. To which the All Progressives Congress candidate and current Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, had instantly retorted that one couldn’t leave one’s shop open to be plundered by thieves or there would be nothing left to sell.

A group of 33 Nigerian human rights and humanitarian organisations has expressed concern over the incessant attacks and criticisms of human rights and humanitarian organisations by the Nigerian Government and its security agencies, in particular, the Nigerian military and security services.