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The Northern Elders Forum (NEF), yesterday, raised concerns over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent national address, criticising his failure to address the severe security crisis affecting the region. The body argued that the President’s speech “overlooked the escalating issues of banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes that have plunged the North-West and surrounding areas into… 
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The Kaduna State Police Command has debunked the rumour of a hijacked Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) by protesters in Tudun Wada town in the state on Monday. According to the Command, the driver of the APC, confronted with a large crowd of protesters, chose not to open fire on the unarmed protesters and allowed them…
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The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Interior, Abdullahi Ahmed, has urged Nigerian youths to suspend the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests and embrace dialogue with the government. In a statement issued to journalists by his Special Assistant on Media, Sardauna Francis, on Monday, Ahmed said the call was due to incidents of looting and…
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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, is facing another round of criticism for allegedly saying that “those who want to protest can go ahead while we are eating.” The Coalition for Parliamentary Democracy (CPD) on Monday said such a comment has further angered the protesters, a development, it observed, has become a threat to…
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Despite the imposition of a 24-hour curfew in Kaduna metropolis, there was a heavy fight between hoodlums in Tudun Wada, Kaduna, and the security operatives on Monday, as the youths continued to emerge in large numbers, destroying properties and looting shops. Meanwhile, it was the intervention of the military that restored sanity in the area…
