This is as the minister challenged the organisers of the planned protest to reveal themselves, noting that it was strange and ominous that the protest organisers were unknown.
Browsing: Violence
The meeting was convened to seek ways of enhancing security, inter and intra-community peace even as the state prepares for council elections.
The Chief Commissioner of the Public Complaint Commission (PCC), Abimbola Ayo-Yusuf, has urged Nigerians to channel their grievances to the appropriate authorities and not to engage in violence.
The Kogi Police Command on Sunday launched an investigation into alleged reports of political clashes and violence in Kogi as the Governorship election draws closer.
Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has begun the 2023 Batch A Business Training for high-risk survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV)
The government said this in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, in Kano Monday.
has since joined the legal dispute – all in the interest of our people – in the belief that the highest court in the land has the capacity to adjudicate on the matter.
The former two-term Governor of Lagos State spoke on the development in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The big problem that the international community faces is that major stakeholders in the Nigerian election do not care.
America’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Michael Gonzales, issued the threat at a Johns Hopkins University international conference titled “United States Policy and Nigeria’s National Decisions in the 2023 Elections.”
The Met’s Counter Terrorism Command launched an investigation in March 2019 as a direct result of members of the public raising concerns to police about online social media posts which contained comments aimed at particular ethnic groups based in Nigeria.
The miscreants capitalised on the peaceful no-work protest embarked upon by commercial bus drivers on Oshodi-Mile 12 Expressway
This is contained in a statement to felicitate Muslim faithful on the occasion of Eid-el-Fitri and issued to newsmen on Thursday from Oyo, a copy of which was made available to the Lagos Office of the News Agency of Nigeria.
Prof. Abubakar Njodi, Secretary to the State Government, made this known at a news conference in Gombe on Friday.
The National Leader (Amira) of the group, Dr Halima Jibril, made the call when members of the association, the Women Wing of Christian Association of Nigeria (WOWICAN), the Nigeria Girls Guide and the UNWomen paid a courtesy visit to the Sa’peyi of Garki in the FCT.
Obaseki stated this on Wednesday in Benin during a one-day prayer and fasting for a peaceful election organised for all the governorship candidates ahead of the election.
The Chairman of YOSEIC, Dr. Mamman Mohammed, gave the warning in Damaturu on Tuesday when he issued notice for the conduct of the local government election at a meeting with stakeholders.
We hereby call on the present Government of Nigeria to do the needful by “courageously” telling Nigerians that “it is no longer secret that it has since 2016 adopted radical Islamism as state religion in Nigeria or any part thereof including Kaduna State”. This will formally allow citizens of other religions including moderate Muslims to rise in defence of their faith and ethnic identities under the constitutional and lawful rights to life and self defence.
The spokesman of the police in the state, CSP Nnudam Fredrick, confirmed the incident to newsmen at Oruk Anam, Akwa Ibom State on Monday.
The call was made through a Save Our Souls letter by Edda Intervention and Rescue Initiative, a group pressing for the rights of people of Edda clan, and submitted to the IGP in Abuja.