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1 week ago | 
icirnigeria.org | Mustapha Usman |Usman Mustapha
NOTE: This report contains descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised. IN Zike, 18 children were among the 54 victims killed, while another seven lost their lives in Hurti and its surrounding villages. Among the casualties of the onslaught on these Plateau communities were dozens of women. Despite government claim that the violence was communal clashes, community leaders and victims insist there was no provocation and that the attacks were meant to instil fear and intimidation.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynigerian.com | Mustapha Usman
The Kano State Public Debt Management Office has denied borrowing $6.6 million within two years of administration of Governor Abba Yusuf. DAILY NIGERIAN reports that an APC group, APC Patriotic Volunteers, had accused the state government of borrowing a whopping sum of $6.6 million.
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2 weeks ago | 
icirnigeria.org | Mustapha Usman |Usman Mustapha
IN what has now turned into long-running violence, many villages in Benue have been caught in a deadly cycle of violence, with families torn apart, homes reduced to rubbles, and communities forced to flee.
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2 weeks ago | 
icirnigeria.org | Mustapha Usman |Usman Mustapha
In a TVC interview aired on Sunday, June 8, to mark the anniversary of Abacha’s death in office in 1998, the former First Lady dismissed long-standing accusations that her husband embezzled billions of dollars during his rule from 1993 to 1998. She, instead, alleged that Nigeria’s political elite squirrelled the public funds her husband left behind and had continued to blame her husband to mask their own theft.
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3 weeks ago | 
icirnigeria.org | Mustapha Usman |Usman Mustapha
MEDIA Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned a call by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) for amendments to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (2011) to include punitive measures for what NEITI described as the ‘misuse’ of the law by ‘fake CSOs.’In a statement on Friday, June 6, MRA described the proposal as ‘ill-conceived’ and a threat to democratic accountability, warning that it could reverse years of advocacy for transparency in governance.
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3 weeks ago | 
icirnigeria.org | Mustapha Usman |Usman Mustapha
THE people of Gaba in Lavun Local Government Area of Niger State have rejected the recent state pardon granted to 11 people sentenced to death for the 2018 killing of seven farmers from the community. They warned that the move could escalate tensions and further erode trust in the Nigerian justice system. Their outrage, expressed during a press conference on Thursday, June 5, in Minna by the Chairman of Gaba Development Association, Paul Gana, comes amid heightened insecurity in the state.
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3 weeks ago | 
icirnigeria.org | Mustapha Usman |Usman Mustapha
FOLLOWING the recent deadly attacks on Gwer West and Apa Local Government Areas of Benue State, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Olufemi Oluyede, has moved to the state in a strategic push to curb the escalating violence. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the COAS is accompanied by Principal Staff Officers (PSOs) and other senior army officials for an on-the-ground security assessment.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailynigerian.com | Mustapha Usman
The Kano State Police Command in collaboration with other security agencies in the state have banned all forms of durbar and horse riding during eid-el-kabir celebrations in the state. Recall that the police, police in conjunction with other security agencies, had banned the two feuding emirs — Muhammadu Sanusi and Aminu Bayero — from organising durbar during the eid-el-fitr celebrations late March. The decision follows Mr Sanusi’s invitation for durbar festivals sent to his district heads.
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3 weeks ago | 
icirnigeria.org | Mustapha Usman |Usman Mustapha
ONDO State Police Command has arrested a mother, Dorcas Asije, and four others over assault on Alexander Rotifa, the vice principal of Complete Child Development College, Aule, Akure. Asije, mother of a student accused of cheating during the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), is alleged to have ochestrated the attack on the vice principal. The attack, on May 26, has been widely condemned by Nigerians and the state government..
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3 weeks ago | 
icirnigeria.org | Mustapha Usman |Usman Mustapha
THE Ondo State Ministry of Education has condemned the assault on the Vice Principal of Complete Child Development Centre, Aule, Akure, who was beaten by suspected thugs allegedly hired by his student’s mother. Identified as Rotifa, the vice principal was said to have enforced examination rules during the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) by seizing the student’s phone.
