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After an interregnum of peace in Plateau State, unknown gunmen invaded Kuru district of Jos South where six people were brutally murdered in the early hours of Monday. But the recent attack which occurred on Tuesday night was also carried out by some gunmen in the wee hours of the day in Gyel district, also of Jos South

According to the former vice president, the over-reliance on oil revenues has virtually destroyed the initiatives by the state governments to double efforts towards improving their internally generated revenue sources

Tukur had on Wednesday threatened to arrest members of Baraje’s faction who parade themselves as National Executive Committee members

Undisclosed amount of cash and cartridges, hidden in some of the vehicles’ safes, were equally removed

Tukur, who addressed a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, while taking on the faction of the PDP under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje as National Chairman, said anyone elected on the platform of the party who recognizes any other leadership apart from his would also be removed from his seat

There are several reasons why the problem in the PDP has no easy solution. One of this is the President’s immediate circle of officials and advisers

Nwabueze made the call in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, while giving a keynote address at the National Political Summit on the theme: “Roadmap to Political Stability and National Security in Nigeria”

But sources said the Presidency has narrowed the search for the certificate to three political gladiators within the party

The meeting commenced at 9:10pm when Jonathan arrived at the venue.
Among those at the meeting were the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak; the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim; and Tukur

The governor stated this on Tuesday at the PDP stakeholders meeting in Minna, the Niger State capital, where he briefed members on what transpired at the party’s Special National Convention in Abuja

The 57 House of Representatives members, including the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Hon. Zakari Mohammed, said there were more members who could not sign the paper before it was released

A source, however, told The Eagle Online that it was possible the meeting was cancelled because some of the governors who have aligned with the PDP faction headed by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, have decided to boycott the meeting

Briefing Journalists after about a two-hour close door meeting, the committee Chairman, Senator Hope Uzodima, stated that the impasse had been resolved with all stakeholders, including Suntai’s wife, Hauwa

Forty-six of the attached properties, situated mostly in Lagos and Abuja, belong to Attang while Kigo, whose properties had earlier been attached, had another of his plot of land at Gudu district attached

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Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, the spokesman of the Joint Task Force on Operation Restore Order, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, that the army was disturbed about the situation

The gunmen were also reported to have injured several persons during the attack

He said: “I have always considered vandalism of national assets and infrastructure as a moral equivalent of war

Enabulele said that the “ongoing destruction of the fabric of professionalism and hierarchical order in Nigerian public hospitals and the health sector” gave rise to the ultimatum

In a letter to the group on Monday, the 22 senators congratulated the faction that broke away from the party on Saturday during the controversial Special National Convention of the PDP in Abuja