Interviews Politics

Nigeria gradually drifting towards a failed state- Omobude

Ihesiulo Grace 15 May 2018 0

Rev‎. Felix Omobude is the General Overseer of New Covenant Gospel Church and president of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN). In this interview with select Journalists, he spoke on the incessant killings across the country and other issues affecting the polity. TITUS AKHIGBE was there for

Crime News

Ozubulu Church Massacre: Trial suspects denied bail

Ihesiulo Grace 6 May 2018 0

The presiding judge, Justice Fidelis .I. Aniukwu in the case of the killings at St Philip’s Catholic Church, Ozubulu at the Anambra State High Court refused bail application for the four suspects standing trial in the August 6, 2017 killings. The Judge in his ruling said the danger in granting the suspects bail could be […]

News Nigeria

South-South CAN protest grounds Asaba over indiscriminate herdsmen’s killings

Ihesiulo Grace 3 May 2018 0

Business activities including vehicular movement in Asaba and its environs were Thursday paralyzed following the protest by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) South-South in the early hours of the day. The protesters, amidst continued killings in Benue, and other states by herdsmen, took to various streets around Inter-Bau to Nnebisi road and adjourning streets

Headlines News

Killings, Melaye: Again, IGP snubs Senate over invitation

Ihesiulo Grace 3 May 2018 0

* Senators angry, resolve to report Idris to Buhari * Give IGP 7-day ultimatum to honour invitation * Drama as police rearrest Melaye after bail The Senate on Wednesday resolved to drag the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to President Muhammadu Buhari for turning down invitation by the upper chamber for a second time running. […]

Headlines News

Gadaffi v. Nigeria: Unending tales of sorrow, tears and blood

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2018 0

* Herdsmen attacks escalate in Benue, other states * Govs proffer solution to end farmers, herdsmen clashes It was the last mass they would ever attend on the face of the earth before they were mowed down by suspected herdsmen. From the sanctuary of God, they became guests in the mortuary. Tears and blood flowed […]

News Nigeria

Tiv, Fulani in Nasarawa reconcile, sign peace pact

Ihesiulo Grace 27 April 2018 0

If the events of Thursday, April 26 are anything to go by, killings and destructions which hitherto had reign supreme would be a thing of the past within the Tiv and Fulani in Naarawa state. The warring parties after 170 lives were lost in perennial clashes on Thursday, at the state capital Lafia signed a […]

Headlines News

NEC demands ban on herdsmen in 5 states over killings

Ihesiulo Grace 27 April 2018 0

The National Economic Council (NEC) has recommended a ban on the movement of herdsmen across the country as a way of curtailing the incessant killings being witnessed in states of Nigeria. The ban is expected to take effect in the five states where the killings are most pronounced -Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Kaduna and Zamfara. Vice-President […]

Headlines Politics

Reps summon Buhari over killings

Ihesiulo Grace 26 April 2018 0

…Suspend plenary in honour of victims …Pass no confidence vote on security chiefs The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, summoned President Muhammadu Buhari to speak to lawmakers on the rising state of insecurity and the killings in parts of the country and what his administration is doing to stem the senseless killings by killer herdsmen. […]

News

Herdsmen killings: we lost 99 persons, 863 houses in five months – Plateau Group

Ihesiulo Grace 25 February 2018 0

National Publicity Secretary of Miango Youth Development Association in Plateau State, Comrade Zango Lawrence Nebanat, has expressed grief that 99 persons have been killed and 863 houses were burnt down in five months by Fulani herdsmen in Irigwe Chiefdom of Miango Local Government Area of Plateau State. He noted that 44 persons were inflicted gunshots […]

News

Killings: I am sorry for open grazing comments, Lalong tells Ortom, Benue

Ihesiulo Grace 15 January 2018 0

In an uncommon display of humility and statesmanship for a Nigerian politician, Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, on Sunday, tendered an unreserved apology to his Benue state counterpart, Samuel Ortom, on his earlier remarks that he had warned Ortom not to implement the anti-open grazing law. At a media briefing in Abuja, Lalong not only […]

News

NLC challenges APC/FG over nation wide killings

Ihesiulo Grace 9 January 2018 0

Leadership of the Nigeria labour congress NLC, has challenged the ruling party the All Progressive party APC and the government of President Mohammadu Buhari on the killings across the country. The NLC stated today that danger is inherent as Nigerians are beginning to express fear over the wide spread killings. According to the release signed […]

News

Benue Magistrate Court remands 6 herdsmen over Benue killings

Ihesiulo Grace 6 January 2018 0

Buhari meets with IGP over mayhem, other killings The Benue State Police on Friday arraigned six Fulani herdsmen allegedly involved in the killing of 19 farmers in Akor village of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, even as President Muhammadu Buhari met with the Inspector General of Police over the mayhem and other killings […]

News Nigeria

Killings in Benue, Kaduna, others disturbing – Ogbeh

Ihesiulo Grace 5 January 2018 0

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has described the killings in those parts of the country as “extremely disturbing” and wondered “how a country could hope to enjoy happiness and fruits of God’s blessings when people engage so violently in hurting each other.” He stated this in a statement issued Thursday in […]

Headlines News

Buhari laments over New Year killings in Kaduna, Rivers

Ihesiulo Grace 2 January 2018 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock and outrage at reports of killings of innocent persons in Omoku, Rivers State and the traditional ruler, the Etum Numana, Dr Gambo Makama, and his wife in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State in the New Year. The President, who described the incidents as “reprehensible and unacceptable,” directed […]

News

Plateau Killings: We don’t take sides — STF boss

Ihesiulo Grace 19 October 2017 0

Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos The Special Task Force (STF) mandated to restore peace on the Plateau, Southern Kaduna and some parts of Bauchi State, has said the public should not drag the task-force into unnecessary unverified claims, saying it does not take sides when resolving conflicts. The task-force Commander Major General Anthony Atolagbe, stated this on […]

Features

Boko Haram Crisis: Why It Is Hard to Know the Truth in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 25 April 2015 0

It is not easy to find out the truth in Nigeria. The Baga killings are a case in point, with politicians and government officials offering vastly different information – from 150 dead to 2,000. News of another attack by Islamist militants from Boko Haram often starts as a vague one-liner as was the case on […]