Otunba Gani Adams The Aare Ona Kankanfo of Yourbaland-designate, Gani Adams, has canvassed restructuring as solution to the country’s challenges He spoke yesterday in Akure, when he paid a courtesy visit to the pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere. According to him, the solutions to the country’s problems were well spelt out in the recommendations of […]

The Police Command in Oyo State has arrested a soldier serving at 81 Battalion, Makola, Ibadan for allegedly hijacking a fuel-laden truck along Akobo, Iwo road. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Abiodun Odunde, made the disclosure in Ibadan while presenting the suspects to newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Ibadan on Friday. […]

Residents and officials said at least four people were killed and many others including a House of Representatives member, Adamu Kamale, injured. Security and local sources said though the incident occurred on Christmas Day, it was not reported until Thursday evening due to communication problems in the mountainous area of Michika. ‘’It was not reported […]

Following the temporal suspension of tricycle movement in Jos, the Plateau state capital by the security agencies, passengers across the capital were left stranded. The absence of the commercial tricycles, which were the major means of local transportation in Jos, had forced people to walk to their destinations on foot. The ViewPointNigeria gathered that although […]

Chief of Army Staff urges military to remain resolute in tackling security challenges By Golok Nanmwa, Jos Chief of Army Staff , Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai on Thursday called on officers and men of the Nigerian Army to remain undaunted and resolute in tackling security challenges in the country while stressing that they must continue […]

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has ordered the confiscation of over 50 cows and arrest of three herdsmen. The suspects were arrested for violating the law banning open grazing in the state and for obstructing the governors’ convey while returning to Makurdi from Tarka local council. Governor Ortom after giving the order on Wednesday, December […]

The Joint Labour Unions in Osun on Wednesday blocked the entrance to the State Secretariat in Abere, Osogbo, preventing workers from going into their offices, to enforce the indefinite strike earlier announced on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the union leaders and some of their members arrived at the Secretariat as […]

An investigation has shown that each of the state governors in Nigeria is protected by 221 policemen, making a total of 7,956 for all the 36 state governors. An investigation by Nigerian newspaper Daily Trust also found that at least 5 policemen are attached to each of the 36 ministers in the country, totalling 180. […]