Ishaku Yohanna, Author at Voice of Liberty NG

Police begin search for officer caught on video smoking shisha

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

� Nigeria Police on Sunday said it has begun searching for a policeman who was caught smoking shisha in uniform. �The Nigeria Police Force has commenced investigations into the viral video showing a man wearing what appears to be a Nigeria Police �uniform� smoking shisha,� the police tweeted. The video was published on social media platforms on Saturday with an unidentified in a police uniform smoking at the back of a house. While the time, location and identity of the person is yet unknown, the police said it is investigating…

Conflicts: Forgiveness is what�ll heal Nigeria – Kaigama

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Diocese, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, has called on Nigerians residing in conflict and violence areas of Nigeria to forgive those who have brought them pain and tears. According to him, Jesus response to Peter in Matthew 18:22 stating forgiveness should be as many as 77 times, showed that there was no limit to forgiveness. The cleric said this in Abuja on Sunday while delivering his Homily at the Holy Cross Parish in Apo on Sunday. He said forgiveness was paramount to enable speedy social integration,…

Granting amnesty to insurgents won�t restore peace � Ndume warns

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has warned that granting amnesty to repentant insurgents cannot restore peace in troubled states. He said arrangements were being perfected to ensure the return of some displaced victims of insurgency living in the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to their ancestral villages next month. Ndume, who is representing Borno South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Sunday. He said indigenes of Damboa, Kukawa, Kawuri, and Ngoshe,…

Edo 2020: Kwankwaso, Ganduje woo Arewa community

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 19 governorship election, Godwin Obaseki and Osagie Ize-Iyamu, have separately wooed the Arewa community in state to curry their votes. While Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano, approached the Arewa community for the PDP candidate, Ize-Iyamu, on the other hand, was led by Abdullahi Ganduje, the incumbent governor of Kano, to what was described as �Arewa declaration�. Both candidates were said to have got the assurances of the Arewa community ahead of the…

State of the nation:You are Nigeria�s �Divider-in-Chief� – Buhari replies Obasanjo

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The presidency has responded to a recent comment by former President Olusegun Obadanjo, accusing President Muhammadu Buhari turning the country into a failed state by mismanaging its ethnic diversity. Garba Shehu, Buhari�s Senior Special assistant on Media and Publicity, has accused Obasanjo of promoting a poisonous atmosphere of ethnic and religious nationalism. Shehu, in the statement on Sunday said Obasanjo, in his comments attempted to divide the nation while President Muhammadu Buhari continues to promote nation building and the unity of Nigeria. He said, �The difference is clear. From the…

Rivers kidnapping kingpin dies in police custody

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The police authorities in Rivers have arrested a suspected kidnapper said to be the most wanted in the state, Honest Digbara, popularly known as Boboski. Boboski, said to have come from Nwidera, Gokana Local Government Area was nabbed at Korokoro community in Khana Local Government where he was hiding with his gang members. This was confirmed on Saturday by the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, at the state police headquarters in Port Harcourt. The police boss said the arrest of the criminal followed credible information by members of the public.…

FG shifts meeting with labour to Tuesday

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The Federal Government has rescheduled the meeting with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to discuss the economy to Tuesday. The parley would hold at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, announced the new date in a text message on Saturday. It read, �The meeting has been rescheduled to Tuesday, 15th Sept at 10am. Venue is Banquet Hall of Presdential Villa. This is to accommodate all participants.� The Minister of…

Restructuring: �Zone us to south-west� – Okun people of Kogi writes N�Assembly

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The Okun ethnic people in Kogi State have written to National Assembly to be relocated from the North-Central geopolitical zone to the South-West. They also demanded a separate state which would be made up of the Okun people and the core Yoruba speaking part of Kwara State. This demand was contained in a memorandum sent to the Senate Committee on the 1999 Constitutional Review, under the umbrella of Okun Development Association (ODA). The memorandum which was signed by Ambassador Babatunde Fadumiyo, on behalf of the ODA President, expressed support for…

Blackout in Rivers as protesters shut down Afam transmission station

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

Some irate youths in Rivers State have shut down the Afam transmission station, causing total blackout in Port Harcourt, the state capital, and its environs. The youths were protesting against the alleged inability by the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company to provide steady electricity at no cost to its host communities. Consequently, the Afam youths in Oyibo Local Government Area mobilised in their numbers, barricaded the road leading to the power station and stopped the Transmission Company of Nigeria workers from accessing the facility on Friday night. One of the…

North East Commission pledges to remove 500,000 idle youths from streets

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The North East Development Commission-Education Endowment Fund (NEDC-EEF), has expressed determination to remove over 500,000 idle youths from the streets in the next five years in the region. Mr Macauley Hunohashi, Head of Media and Publicity of the fund, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the Chairman of NEDC-EEF, Chief David Kente, made the pledge at an interactive session with Sen. Abdulazeez Nyako. He applauded the visionary and patriotic effort of Sen. Nyako, which saw to the establishment of the commission, saying �we will sustain that vision to…