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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has warned the international community against taking sides in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. In total, 197 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including at least 58 children, and more than 1,200 wounded since Israel launched its air campaign against Hamas, a terrorist organisation on May 10 after the […]
Barring any last-minute change of mind, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and its affiliate unions will on Monday embark on a five-day warning strike over the recent disengagement of civil servants by the state government. The planned move followed Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s announcement in April to disengage civil servants in the state, citing fiscal reasons. […]
Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has supported the call for national dialogue by southern governors to address the issue of insecurity and other challenges in the country. Featuring as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, he stated that those who have faulted the action of the governors misunderstood their motive of making such […]
Operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a suspected bandit, Micheal Osundu in the state. The suspect, according to police authorities, is suspected to be part of the hoodlums that attacked the Nigeria Correctional Services and the Police headquarters on April 5. According to the police spokesman in the state, Ikeokwu Orlando, the […]
Attacks on police facilities in the southern part of the country appear to be worsening as more stations have come under siege by hoodlums recently. The latest of such unfortunate incidents was the attack by gunmen on Nsukwa Divisional Police Station in Aniocha South Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State. Channels Television gathered that the […]
Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has called on the state and local governments to join the Federal Government in tackling the security challenges in Nigeria. Mohammed told newsmen in Bauchi on Thursday, adding that the federal government can’t tackle the challenges alone. He said: ”it is the responsibility of the federal, state and local […]
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has faulted the declaration of the ban on open grazing in the South by governors in the region. He believes making a public proscription of the movement of cattle by foot in the southern part of the country by the governors cannot be as […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday pledged said his administration is working hard to tackle insecurity confronting the nation and he hopes Nigerians understand. Speaking to journalists at the State House shortly after observing the Eid prayer, marking the end of the month-long Ramadan fast, President Buhari said that the menace of bandits and kidnappers will […]
Two policemen have been injured in another attack on a Police Divisional Headquarters in Abia State, south-east Nigeria. While many police stations have come under attack in the region in recent time, the latest incident makes it the second attack on police facilities in Abia since the beginning of the week. Channels Television gathered that the […]
Israel faced an escalating conflict on two fronts Thursday, scrambling to quell riots between Arabs and Jews on its own streets after days of exchanging deadly fire with Palestinian militants in Gaza. Despite diplomatic efforts to halt the violence, which US President Joe Biden said he hoped would end “sooner than later”, hundreds of rockets tore […]