An unspecified number of persons have become trapped after a building collapsed on them at Kubwa, Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja on Friday. The three-storey building, which was still under construction is said to be a new hotel located specifically near Freedom Christ Mission Church, on Hamza Abdullahi Street, off Gado Nasco Road, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council.
The Nigeria Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has advised Nigerians against traveling to Northern Cyprus due to alleged reports of Nigerians being killed and subjected to human rights abuses in the country.
The former Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo, is dead. Dokubo passed on at age 70 after a brief illness on Wednesday evening August 24, at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja. The former Niger Delta amnesty boss was born in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State on March 23 March 1952. He had his primary and Secondary School education in the same Abonnema. Dokubo had primary and secondary education in Abonnema and did his ‘A’ levels at Huddersfield Technical College in West Yorkshire.
The Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Hassan Nasiha has said the notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, has repented and embraced the peace initiative of the State government as part of efforts to end banditry in the North-western state. The deputy governor spoke at the opening of a conference on security organised by the Students Union of Medina University, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He said he had met with bandits in the 14 local government areas of the state. "There were several wars fought but that did not stop the parties involved from dialogue to resolve their differences through a peace deal. "It is in the light of this that Governor Bello Mohammed thought it is necessary to use kinetic and non-kinetic approaches. It would not be a gun battle or a war using whatever weapons between the bandits and the people," he said.
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Rear Admiral Yaminu Ehinomen Musa (Rtd.) as the pioneer Coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) which is to take effect immediately for an initial term of 5 years. His appointment was disclosed in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.
The Zamfara state Governor, Bello Matawalle has approved the death penalty for kidnappers, bandits, cattle rustlers, cultists,s, and informants who are found guilty by a court of law in the state. The governor made this known yesterday while briefing the people of the state in a wake of insecurity that has continued unabated. The Governor said the decision was an outcome of the state Security Council decision that was taken collectively. In his statement, “On the 28th of June this year, I passed the bill on Prohibition and Punishment for Banditry, Cattle Rustling, Cultism, Kidnapping, and Other Incidental Offences, 2022.
