SGF tells security agencies they must inform governors before carrying out major operations in their states

NIGERIAN security operatives have been issued with a directive by the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) to always inform their members before embarking on any major operation in their states as part of a new security arrangement.

 

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Abu Dhabi appeal court sentences six Nigerians to prison for funding Boko Haram

SIX Nigerians have been handed jail sentences by an Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after their conviction for funding terrorist sect Boko Haram was upheld.

 

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NEF rejects Southern Governors Forum demand that next president must come from the south

REGIONAL body the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has rejected the position of the Southern Governors Forum that the south should produce the next president of Nigeria come 2023 saying there should be no automatic rotation.

 

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With FDI showing no signs of picking up in the foreseeable future maybe Buhari should seek to attract $20bn a year in diaspora investment with this kind of ambitious policy

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Once a year, 500 diasporans will be invited to Abuja for a serious brain storming session with the government and draw up investment plans

[2] The presidents of the major diaspora organisations in four or five key countries will be granted observers status at Nigerian Governors' Forum meetings

[3] The Nigerian Diaspora Commission will set investment targets for the various diaspora communities

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Former ambassador Olufunso Olumoko says he does not see UK intervening in Nnamdi Kanu's matter

NIGERIA'S former ambassador to Thailand Olufunso Olumoko has said he does not see how the UK can help Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu despite the fact that he holds a British passport.

 

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Lagos State Police Command denies killing 14 year old at Yoruba Nation rally yesterday

LAGOS State Police Command has vehemently denied allegations that a shot fired by one of its men killed a young girl at yesterday's Yoruba Nation rally in Ojota saying that the 14-year was stabbed to death.

 

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As a lasting legacy to TB Joshua, Nigeria's pentecostal clergymen should combine their financial interests and create a conglomerate called Man of God PLC and use it to power the country out of poverty

Ayo Akinfe

[1] What Nigeria is going through today with the evangelical churches is not unique. In Europe, when Christianity became the official religion, that is how the Catholic Church dominated society

[2] The Catholic Church owned huge tracks of land across Europe and the bishop was effectively the landlord commanding the power of life and death over millions of peasants and serfs

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El-Rufai withdraws his son from Capital School Kaduna after reports bandits planed to abduct him

GOVERNOR Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has had to withdraw his son from the famous Capital School in Kaduna metropolis after bandits planned to attack the famous institution and abduct him.

 

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Sunday Igboho hits back saying DSS operatives planted the weapons found in his home

YORUBA Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo has hit back at the Nigerian government after it declared him  wanted man after a raid on his Ibadan home saying that the weapons displayed as being captured were planted by the authorities.

 

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