The Federal Government has appealed to the world powers not to be weighed by unsubstantiated arguments to deny the country vital platforms and weapons to fight insecurity. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the appeal on Thursday when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. “I want to use this opportunity to say that the international community can help us better than they are doing right now. “To fight terrorists we need platforms and weapons. “When the international community is weighed by unsubstantiated arguments to deny the country of vital platforms and weapons to fight insucurity, you cannot turn round to accuse the country of not fighting terrorism,’ he said. The minister buttress the claim, saying “cretain world powers have refused to even sell to us certain vital weapons.” “For more than two to three years now, we have paid for certain vital weapons that they have not released to us and they even r...
PARIS, JULY 9, 2018: (DGW) Fire gutted a section of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Pogo village, Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger on Sunday with fire service officials still trying to put out the fire. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Niger Police Command on Sunday had deployed armed personnel to prevent people from scooping petroleum products at the NNPC pipeline that exploded in Dagbo community, Paikoro Local Government Area. The Commissioner of Police in Niger, Mr Dibal Yakadi, said that deployment became necessary in view of the lightening that occurred following a downpour on Saturday night which led to the explosion of NNPC’s pipeline in the area. Alhaji Ahmed Inga, Director-General Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), told newsmen that the situation is very pathetic. He advised people living in the neighbouring villages to vacate immediately as state fire service was still battling to out the fire. According t...
Preamble: The Igbo Civil Society Coalition, a coalition of Igbo activists, civil society organizations, professional bodies, faith-based organizations, town unions, etc held her monthly general congress in Enugu and after due deliberations resolved as follows: 1. The ICSCO fully recognizes and respects everyone’s right to peaceful self-determination in line with extant international laws. 2. That the declaration of an unarmed and non-violent group as a terrorist organization is an afterthought whose basic intention is to shield those committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against Ndigbo from prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and divert attention from the bad governance and attempts to truncate the democratic process in Nigeria. 3. That ICSCO totally condemns the use of state terrorism to create a unilateral state of war in Igbo land and intimidate, gag and silence the Igbo nation from self-expression in Nigeria....
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