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The Human Rights Writers Association ofNigeria, HURIWA, has called for the sack of Agriculture Minister, Mr. Audu Ogbeh, and the Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The group said the duo were being economical with the truth in the discharge of their public functions, thereby polluting the innocent minds of Nigerian children even as disseminating false information violates the criminal code Act of Nigeria. In a statement signed by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA condemned  Ogbeh for exposing the global image of Nigeria  to disrepute by dishing out information on the rice industry of Thailand. HURIWA charged President Buhari to at least suspend the Agriculture Minister from office and carry out further investigation within seven days on the veracity of his claims that Rice factories in Thailand closed down because the current government in Nigeria suddenly made rice production...

Plateau State on Map Less than 24 hours after the official launch of a five year road map for peace strategy in Plateau State by President Muhammadu Buhari, gunmen reportedly killed five persons in the state. The attack occurred in Nzharuvo community of Basa Local Government Area of the state Thursday night. The attacked community is located close to ECWA Secondary School, Mingo, in Bassa local government. A youth leader in the community Danjuma Auta, told PREMIUM TIMES of the attack on Friday. According to Mr. Auta, the victims were mostly children and a woman. “With the persistent attacks on our communities, most men no longer sleep at home. We do keep vigil at border areas to our communities, we wonder where the attackers of our community came from.” “It is an unfortunate incident, these killers are heartless. They do not have mercy for even innocent children. They macheted the children to death, as we speak, we are preparing for their burial....

- Malam Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state reveals that some of the newly appointedteachers could not write letters of acceptance - El-Rufai says the revelation is proof that the affected teachers were not the ones that wrote the tests themselves - The teachers were recruited following a major sack of some of their colleagues The governor of Kaduna, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has made a huge revelation concerning the newly appointed teachers in the state as he stated that many of them could not write an acceptance letter after they were approved for the job. Governor El-Rufai made the revelation in a post made on the social media account of the Kaduna state government later Thursday, March 8, 2018. “Some of the new teachers we tried to recruit tried to game the system. We gave those that passed letters of appointments and a plain sheet of paper to write a simple letter of acceptance. “Some couldn’t. It was clear they didn’t write the tests ...

Ikechukwu Ayene, President of Nigeria Union in South Africa The Nigerian Community in South Africa has confirmed that two members were by killed a Nigerian early on Saturday. Emeka Ezinteje, Secretary of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the telephone from Johannesburg, South Africa, that the incident was due to a business dispute. “We have received a report that at 3.00am on Saturday, Ekweghiariri Chidi Isacc, 34, a native of Ehime in Isiala Mbano Local Government of Imo and Nzechukwu Alabuche, 35, from Azia in Anambra were stabbed to death by one Sunday from Awgbu in Anambra. “The incident occurred at Rossetinville, South of Johannesburg. “We understand that there was a business dispute between them, that made the assailant to stab the victims to death,” he said. He said that the union had reported the incident to the Nigerian mission and the South African police. “The assailant is on the run while the police have commenced investig...

A 27-year-old Nigerian man, Fred Amaechi, suspected of being a member of Boko Haram, has been arrested in Germany. He was detained on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 in Bavaria and a day later a judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered that he be remanded in custody, the chief federal prosecutor said in a statement, Reuters  reports. “He is strongly suspected of being a member of the foreign terrorist organisation, Boko Haram,” the statement said. It said Amaechi Fred O. was believed to have joined Boko Haram in 2013 and had admitted to actively taking part in four attacks against Nigerian civilians during his one-year membership of the group. He is accused of killing several people during two attacks on schools and one attack on a village and taking part in another attack on a village, during which members of Boko Haram took girls as hostages and burned down a church. Boko Haram is an Islamist terrorist group which has been has been waging a violent campaign s...

Billionaire businessman and founder of Aiteo Group, Mr. Benedict Peters, has denied social media reports that he is funding the new coalition reportedly being headed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Peters said this in a statement signed by him. He said, “For the record, I wish to state, categorically and unequivocally, that I am not a financier of the said organisation or any socio-political partisan association or political party in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world. “As an international businessman of repute, I have deliberately stayed away from politics preferring, instead, to focus and give my all to the development of my business interests across the African continent “Corporate Social Responsibility contributions has seen the Aiteo Group, which I lead, provide investment support in medicine and medical research dedicated to seeking cures for several ailments which affect the African continent as well as investment in sports and sports as a panacea ...