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GOVERNOR Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has rejected the 2.5% revenue proposed for crude oil host communities across the Niger Delta in the Petroleum Industry Bill demanding at least 10% saying this is the very minimum required to mitigate the people's suffering.

NORTHERN Nigerian socio-cultural group the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed disquiet over the embarrassing revelation by Zamfara State governor Bello Matawalle that some of its members were behind the recent kidnappings in his state.

NIGERIA'S Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has dissociated itself from the recent attempt by the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers Association (AUFCDA) to block the movements of food items from northern Nigeria to the south of the country.

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has rejected the offer of handing over control of his local vigilante group the Eastern Security Network (ESN) to the South East Governors Forum saying they will use it to betray Ndigbo.

GOVERNOR Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has dropped another bombshell in the ongoing Nigerian insecurity soap opera by revealing that the kidnappers were offered money by unnamed persons not to release the 279 schoolgirls the recently abducted.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria will be made up of 42 states, with seven per each of her constituent geo-political zone. These shall be:
South-south

[1] Bayelsa State - Yenagoa
[2] Western Ijaw State - Patani
[3] Rivers State - Port Harcourt
[4] Cross River State - Calabar
[5] Akwa Ibom State - Uyo
[6] Edo State - Benin
[7] Delta State - Warri

BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson Nigerian church and community leaders in the UK including Pastor Sola Fola-Alade in a bid to get them to persuade their members to take the Covid-19 vaccination which many of them are rejecting.

FOOD distributors in northern Nigeria have resumed shipments to the south of the country after four days of disruptions following the ongoing Fulani herdsmen saga after it became too costly to maintain the embargo as they were losing up to to N10bn ($26.13m) a week.

BOKO Haram breakaway group the Islamic State in West Africa Province (Iswap) has taken full control of the historic city of Dikwa in Borno State after successfully expelling security forces from there and establishing themselves as the authorities on the ground.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) national leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu appears to have incurred the wrath of the powers that-be after the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) opened a probe into his activities while he was Lagos State governor.