The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said accused President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, party of allegedly cutting a deal with the governors of Zamfara and Katsina to “capture” the states. Atiku also said he welcomes “whatever reasonable measures the Federal Government takes to put an end to the needless loss of lives and property in Zamfara and Katsina States,” but warned that “imposing emergency rule in the two states can only address the symptoms rather than the cause of the current security crisis facing the North West states.”

THE leadership of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, led by Oweilaemi Pereotubo, has denounced media report credited to its spokesperson, Daniel Dasimaka that “Ijaw youths have decided to throw their weight behind the behind the second term ambition of President Muhammad Buhari.”

The former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has said that now that the governor of Katsina State has cried that his state is under siege by armed robbers and kidnappers he hopes that President Muhammadu Buhari will stop playing the ostrich.

Saudi Arabia’s attorney general sought the death penalty for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh on Thursday.

The National Democratic Front (NDF), a civil society organization, has condemned several moves to stop the proposed nationwide Operation Python Dance III exercise by the Nigerian Army. The group said it is important to separate politics from real issue that would better the nation. NDF through its Secretary General, Dr. Bolaji Abdulkadir said the action […]