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“Unfortunately, this is no solution or wisdom. When you don’t have the monopoly of the instruments of violence, then dialogue has the monopoly of resolving the conflict. The Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has claimed that the current military offensive against criminal herdsmen and bandits terrorising North-western will not solve the security challenges facing the country. Mr Gumi made the declaration on Monday via his verified Facebook page, while reacting to the recent perceived military success over bandits at Zamfara forests. The statement, titled: ‘Zamfara: The Flaring of Crisis’, stressed that the military action against the criminals “is no…

Former military Administrator of Rivers State, Brigadier General Anthony Ukpo, is dead. Brigadier General Anthony Ukpo, a former information minister during General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida’s regime died Monday morning.   Close ally, Leonard Anyogu, who is the secretary of the Ogoja State Creation Committee which was chaired by Ukpo, confirmed the former military administrator’s death.

Nelson Effiong, a former senator that represented Akwa Ibom South at the Nigerian Senate has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. According to POLITICS NIGERIA, the gunmen who were three in number attacked a popular lounge in the state, owned by the former lawmaker, shooting sporadically into the air on Sunday evening. The Senator was quickly seized by the hoodlums and whisked away in a Toyota Camry vehicle at about 9pm on Sunday. Eight people at the lounge sustained injuries as customers scampered to escape amidst a hail of bullets from the hoodlums. “I have just been shot along Oron Road,”…

Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor, the Global President of civil society group, One Love Foundation, on Monday slammed the Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki over his inability to protect the people of Edo state as the Chief Security Officer of the state. In a statement sent to THE WHISPERER on Monday, the social crusader opined that despite the billions deducted as security votes, the governor has failed to provide the necessary institutional and moral support to tackle insecurity in the state. Reacting to Saturday’s attack and killing of Mr. Olajide, the younger brother of Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara…

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, says that all is set for President Muhammadu Buhari's visit to the state on Thursday, September 9. The governor disclosed this while addressing newsmen at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, on Saturday. Uzodinma, who spoke upon his return from an official trip to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, said that the President would commission some “significant projects” executed by his administration. The governor said that he visited Abuja to “address some political matters and some critical issues that are supposed to be handled in Abuja.” He listed the issues to include getting Federal…

Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters and ex-presidential candidate has narrated how suspected herdsmen shot dead his brother in the Okada area of Edo State on Saturday. According to him, Olajide was killed in the early hours of Saturday on his way from Igbinedion University where he was studying Pharmacy. Sowore, in a tribute on his Facebook page, described his deceased brother who almost clocked 50 as an “out-of-the-box thinker” He wrote, “My immediate younger brother, Olajide Sowore was today shot and killed near Okada in Edo state by reportedly herdsmen /kidnappers on his way from Igbinedion University in Edo…

Olajide, the younger brother of Sahara Reporters Publisher and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has been killed. Sowore confirmed this in a Facebook post on Saturday. The activist said his brother was killed by suspected herdsmen or kidnappers. He posted, “My immediate younger brother, Olajide Sowore was today shot and killed near Okada in Edo state by reportedly herdsmen /kidnappers on his way from Igbinedion University in Edo sate where he is studying Pharmacy. “They snuffed out the life yet another real human being! Rest In Power, “Dr. Mamiye!” “This act in itself will not delay their day of justice.…

Abuja originally a grazing reserve, anti-open grazing law is satanic, herders going nowhere - Miyetti Allah Miyetti Allah scribe described the anti-open grazing law being enforced in the region and in Benue State as satanic. HERDERS will continue to graze their cattle in Southern Nigeria despite the September deadline given by Southern governors to begin the implementation of the anti-open grazing law in the region, the Fulani socio-cultural group, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has declared. The group, which described the anti-open grazing law of the Southern governors as “satanic,” also proclaimed that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, was originally…

One Love Foundation and other Civil Society Organisations has condemned the continued detention of Glory Okolie, a 21-year-old young woman arrested and enslaved by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Imo State. The police had arrested Okolie for allegedly being friends with a suspected member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). She was later transferred to Abuja, despite efforts by her family members to secure his release. After 66 days in detention, the police, in a statement said she was arrested for alleged membership of IPOB and for working with one Uzoma Emojiri…