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The leadership of Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has agreed to end the blockade of supplies to the south. They reached the agreement at an ongoing meeting with some governors in Abuja on Wednesday. Abdullahi Tom, a youth leader of the cattle dealers in Lagos, told Daily Trust Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is among the leaders who appealed to them to end the industrial action. Details later…          

A pastor, Chris McDouglas Omosokpea of Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Oshodi, Lagos, who is facing a charge for the rape of his member’s teen daughter has allegedly sold his church building and fled to an unknown place to establish another church. Omosokpea, who was arrested in June 2020 by officers of the Makinde Police Station where the family of the victim reported the matter, was granted bail on health grounds before the Lagos High Court. It was gathered that the pastor had allegedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl for the past four years before he was arrested and charged before…

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has since Thursday blocked shipment of cattle and farm produce to the Southern part of the country over demands for compensation for its members affected by violence in that part of the country, Daily Trust reports. The decision might have driven up prices of the items in the South but it has also brought prices crashing in Kano as farmers and marketers suffer huge losses, as Daily Trust reports. It is an irony that as tomato and onion scarcity prevails in the South, the vegetables are flooding markets in…

The incident occurred at the departure hall of the Kenyan airways Apart of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos was on Wednesday gutted by fire. SaharaReporters gathered that the incident occurred at the departure hall of the Kenyan airways. The cause of the fire has yet to be ascertained as at press time. “Part of the Lagos airport was earlier gutted by fire. The Kenyan airways office at departure, that was where the fire happened. “The airport staff around quenched the fire alongside some fire fighters from FAAN (Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria),” a source told SaharaReporters.

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) says it prefers that farm produce goes to waste rather than tolerate continued attacks on its members in the South, TheCable reports. Awwalu Aliyu, an official of the union in Kano on Tuesday said the decision not to supply food to the South was not to starve southerners but to protest against attacks on their people. Aliyu who restated the group's claim that northerners were killed and lost properties, especially during the #EndSARS protests and the recent Shasha market crisis in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, added that it…

FOLLOWING the rise in the cost of foodstuffs across the country, the Nigerian Tribune, on Monday, took a survey of prices in different markets in the country and found that insecurity, extortion, climate change, among others are reasons for the skyrocketing prices of food commodities. From southern states to those in the North, the experience is the same, as prices of food items soar. In Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, prices of cow meat rise, with Alhaji Sule Esa Mohammed, state secretary of Cattle Breeders Association and also secretary to Amalgamated Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria, linking it to the…

The House of Representatives Committee on Army says its investigation revealed that 386 soldiers voluntarily disengaged from the army due to medical and other reasons in the second quarters of 2020, Daily Trust reports. The chairman of the committee, Abdulrazaq Namdaz, who presented a report to the house yesterday, said records by the army indicated that 356 soldiers left the army after losing interest, 24 left to take up traditional titles; while six were discharged on medical grounds. He said the records also indicated that 6,752 soldiers were discharged from the service in the last five years; while 25,655 soldiers…

Reports from Obubra, Cross River State say unknown gunmen have attacked Policemen at two checkpoints in Obubra LGA in Central Cross River state early today, Wednesday morning. The early morning attack occured at Ofotura where 2 officers were shot and killed while another 4 officers were also killed at Oyadama check point. All their arms were carted away by the criminals. One soldier also reported shot in the hand, has also been confirmed dead. Details later.

The traditional ruler of Amaifeke in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo state, Eze Emmanuel Okeke, alongside other traditional rulers in the zone and Orlu Zone Political Consultative Assembly, OPOCA, have agreed to activate the recall process of Senator Rochas Okorocha, who represents Imo West Senatorial District. The decision was taken on Monday after the 48-hour ultimatum given to Okorocha to apologise to Imo people, expired. Okorocha had been asked to apologise for unsealing the Royal Palm Spring Hotel and Apartment linked to his wife, which the government had already sealed. In a communique issued after taking the decision,…