SERAP trains Benue communities on security tracking, accountability
By Peter Duru, Makurdi MAKURDI — The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged residents of Benue State to become more proactive in accessing justice, monitoring government activities and demanding accountability when public spending does not translate into improved safety and wellbeing. The call was made by SERAP Senior Programmes Officer, Folashade Arigbadu, during […]
Osun Accounts: EFCC acted within powers freezing account, says lawyers’ group
By Matilda Ikediobi ABUJA — The Chairman of the League of Patriotic Lawyers, Abubakar Yesufu, has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, acted within its statutory powers when it froze the Osun State Ecological Fund account over concerns about the possible diversion of more than N11 billion in public funds. Yesufu stated this […]
IsDB, SOZEA intensify Islamic social finance drive
By Musa Ubandawaki The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), in collaboration with the Sokoto Zakkat and Endowment Agency (SOZEA), has intensified efforts to strengthen Islamic social finance institutions in Nigeria with a specialised staff training and capacity-lnbuilding programme on Zakkat, Waqf and other Islamic social finance instruments. The training, held on Sunday at Dan Kane Guest […]
Wike, Fubara crisis had no link to Ijaw interest — Eradiri
…Hails emergence of Major Jack as coalition’s guber running mate By Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT — Former President of the Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, Worldwide, Engr. Udengs Eradiri, has said the political crisis between former Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, was a political dispute […]
OPHK air strikes neutralized scores of terrorists fighters in Borno
The strikes, conducted on Saturday, Aug. 8, around the Yuwe and Sabil Huda enclaves in the Sambisa Forest, were described by intelligence sources as highly effective.
Tinubu urges religious leaders to confront extremism, misuse of faith
Tinubu observed that the gathering was taking place at a consequential moment in human history, with societies across the world confronted by conflicts, uncertainty, climate shocks, food and energy shocks, violent extremism, terrorism, transnational crimes and the increasingly dangerous manipulation of identity and religion.
