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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday held a secret meeting with former head of state Gen Abdusalami Abubakar (retd), Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III and His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan on pressing issues of national unity, security, peace, and integration. At the end of their meeting, they all drove away. However, Cardinal Onaiyekan told journalists that they would take their resolutions to the president. Cardinal Onaiyekan said, “We discussed everything about Nigeria. We all discussed how to make the nation better.” He added that a communique will be issued to the press afterwards. Also, the chairman of Arewa Consultative…

The Central Bank of Nigeria has condemned the rate at which Nigerians mutilate, deface, squeeze and even spray and sell the naira notes. The apex bank threatened that “abuse of the currency attracts a penalty of not less than six months or a fine of not less than N50,000 or both.” An Assistant Director at the Currency Operations Department, Aladeen Badajo said this on Thursday during the commencement of the CBN two-day sensitisation fair held in Abeokuta. The programme was meant to create awareness about its activities in relation to economic development initiatives. In his presentation, Badejo urged the people…

Afenifere, the apex socio-cultural organisation in the South West, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for his recent comment against the Igbo nation. Afenifere noted that ”the President takes delight in ridiculing the Ndigbo which he used IPOB to represent.” Buhari had during an interview with Arise TV on Thursday said that the, ‘”IPOB is just like a dot in a circle. Even if they want to exit, they will have no access to anywhere. “And the way they are spread all over the country, having businesses and property, I don’t think IPOB knows what they are talking about. “In any…

Yoruba Nation agitators have threatened to shut down the country if there is bloodshed in the South-West region during the protest that will be staged on June 12 –Democracy Day. This was made known by Olayomi Koiki, media spokesman for Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) in a Facebook broadcast. June 12 Democracy Day nationwide protest was currently gathering momentum as Nigerians in over 30 cities around the world had shown solidarity to register their displeasure about the country’s state of insecurity. Civil society organisations and human rights activists had called for a nationwide protest on June 12, Nigeria’s Democracy…

President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that last year’s #EndSARS protests against police brutality, were aimed at removing him from office. Buhari stated this while appearing on Arise TV on Thursday morning. He also blamed the protests on the dwindling inflow of foreign direct investment to the country. The president insisted that those who participated in the protests, have made Nigeria unattractive to investors. Buhari was asked how he can improve foreign direct investment (FDI) to Nigeria. In response he said: “This question was answered last year when there was the #EndSARS protest last year. You remember the young people that…

The president has asked governors to be proactive and do their jobs. "The governor of Benue said I cannot discipline the cattle rearers because I am one of them. I cannot deny that I am one of them," President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State once told him that he has been soft on killer herders of Fulani extraction because he is also a cattle herder of Fulani extraction. Nigeria is battling a recurring farmers-herders crisis that often sees pastoralists and crop farmers baying for each other's blood. Governor Ortom of Benue has been one…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government had mobilised and would continue to mobilise the military and the police to go after the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) accused of disturbing the peace in the South-East region. He stated this on Thursday in an interview on Arise News Television in Abuja, adding that IPOB also had businesses across the country and nobody was disturbing them. Buhari stated that IPOB is "just like a dot in a circle and they have nowhere to turn to. They are spread everywhere and they have investments and properties everywhere and in other areas.…

President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that all appointments he makes are strictly based on merit and not based on ethnic or regional balance. Mr Buhari stated this on Thursday during an interview with Arise TV which was monitored by THE WHISPERER. The president has been criticized for allegedly appointing more northerners in strategic positions. In the interview, the Nigerian leader said he cannot jettison seniority and merit for balance and federal character. The Nigerian Constitution states that major appointments and other privileges should be shared in such a way that it reflects Federal Character, that is balance across the 36…

The police command in Imo says its officers have arrested a 40-year-old IPOB and ESN’s native doctor, Uzoamaka Ugoanyanwu. According to the police, Mr Ugoanyanwu is a notorious witch doctor who prepared charms for IPOB and ESN members. In Imo, Abutu Yaro, the Commissioner of Police, confirmed the arrest in a statement signed by the command’s spokesman Bala Alkana. Mr Yaro said the police also arrested nine individuals suspected to have taken part in the attack on the country home of Governor Hope Uzodimma. The police chief said the “breakthrough” followed a painstaking investigation carried out by the command’s tactical…

A member of the House of Representatives from Kebbi State, Kabir Ibrahim Tukura, told his colleagues Wednesday that over 500 persons had been killed, 201 abducted and 15,000 displaced in attacks by bandits and terrorists on farming communities in Sakaba and Danko/Wasagu Local Government Areas of the state. He, however, did not specify the period within which those attacks happened. In his lead debate at plenary, Tukura said though the state police command confirmed that bandits killed 88 persons in the last week’s attacks on Koro, Kimi, Gaya, Dimi, Zulu, Rafin Gora, D’lanko, Dguenge, Chonoko, and Unashi villages in Danko/Wasagu…