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Armed bandits have killed at least 10 people in five villages in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The bandits overran Mashigi, Dakwaro, Sabon Gida, and a last village, a resident said. “Ten bodies of people killed were recovered, while many are unaccounted for,” Malam Umar, a resident, was quoted as saying in a statement by a group, Birnin Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance. The armed bandits attacked the villages about 5.00 p.m. on Tuesday, with the attacking lasting for about three and half hours. Also, the armed bandits burnt houses and grains stock of the affected villages, the group said. The police confirmed the attacks but could not provide details. Herders-Farmers Crisis: Miyetti Allah Exonerates FG, Blames Govs Meanwhile, Baba Ngelezarma, National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has blamed governors for clashes between herdsmen and farmers. The clashes have led to the loss of many lives and d...

My heartbroken experience inspired my song, Folasade -Praiz For sensational R&B artiste, Praiz, his award winning single, Folashade, was based on true-life experience.             According to the X3M Records’ singer, who won the Headies award in the Best R&B category, the song was inspired by his last relationship, which got broken. Hear him: “Folasade was inspired by my last relationship. I love to write songs based on true-life experiences. I was heartbroken then. I went into the studio and I started making the beats. I actually produced the song. I just started pouring out words that came to me. I put it out and everybody loved it. It was different and unexpected. I am happy the song got its due acknowledgement.” Praiz, who refused to talk about who the lady was, said his ex girlfriend knows the song was about her and that he won an award for that song. “The lady actually knows the song was for her. We don’t talk anymore though. She knows, h...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that only ‘Igbo traitors and saboteurs’ would attend the Ohanaeze summit slated for Awka, the Anabra State capital, on Monday, May 21. IPOB in a strong-worded press statement issued on Thursday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Mr. Emma Powerful, accused the Chief Nnia Nwodo-led Ohanaeze of organising the event to appease the Federal Government, and vowed to scuttle the summit. It warned Igbo leaders and other eminent personalities who still cherish their integrity to stay away from the summit or be counted as part of those sabotaging Igbo interests for pecuniary gains. Powerful said: “We shall compile the names of all keynote speakers at the event to add to the register of all those that have over the years been betraying our people, especially the individuals that packaged and executed ‘Operation Python Dance’. IPOB accused Nwodo of protecting the interest of the Federal Government while pretending to advance the cause of Nd...

Another three killed in Benue during Osinbajo’s visit Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja, John Shiklam in Kaduna, Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri and George Okoh in Makurdi The death toll continued to mount without let in parts of the country on Tuesday when 10 persons were brutally murdered in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, following an attack on five villages in the area. The attack on Birnin Gwari preceded yet another invasion on villages in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected herdsmen on Wednesday morning, leading to the deaths of three persons. The herdsmen attack on the Benue communities took place when Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was on a two-day visit to the state to assess the damage caused by the farmers-herdsmen crisis. In the case of Birnin Gwari, the attack occurred on the same day the Chief of Army State, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, visited the area, which has recorded dozens of attacks in recent months. During his visit, Buratai had...

governors of the 36 states of the federation are canvassing a novel initiative that will see each state taking responsibility for subsidising petroleum products consumed within its territory. Arising from their discontent over the claim by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it supplies a ridiculous 60 million litres of petrol daily to the domestic market, the governors are contending that instead of deducting the difference between the landing cost of petrol and the official pump price of the product before remitting net crude oil receipts to the Federation Account, every state should be responsible for paying its own subsidy according to its consumption. The push by the governors to take over the responsibility of paying subsidy payments on fuel in their respective states could prove to be a major solution to the inefficiency and graft that has characterised fuel imports and consumption in the country for decades. Other than the crippling impact fuel subsid...

           ENUGU —AN expert in peace and conflict, human security and counter terrorism and a senior lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Dr Kingsley Udegbunam has said the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, proposed sit-at-home protests across the South East and South-South regions may not record total success in the midst of their proscription, their waning influence and the disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu. IPOB members Dr Udegbunam who spoke in a chat with journalists at Nsukka also cited the clash in ideology between IPOB and other pro-Biafra groups like the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and the Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, as reasons the planned sit-at-home will fail. “It is plausible for me to argue that it will hold but the level of success might not be like the last one. In fact, I foresee a situation where majority of Easterners will ignore the sit-at-home order because of the waning influenc...

Award winning broadcast journalist turned politician and media mogul, Senator Chris Anyanwu, was recently at the corporate headquarters of Vanguard Media Limited, during which she drew questions from Vanguard editors on her latest media project in Lagos, Hot FM, 93.3. The parlay also offered opportunity to draw questions from the former senator on the ongoing political spectacle that has seen Governor Rochas Okorocha ranged against nearly every major political stakeholder in their native Imo State. Excerpts: Did you back Okorocha in 2011 or were you deceived to back him? I am not going to allow you put me in a defensive. I would say I was fighting for my political survival and then there was a convergence of interest between him and I, in the sense that we shared the same platform and of course we campaigned together. Once I won, it gave him the momentum and that is what I keep telling people; you need to have strong candidates who can build up the momentum. You need to have ...