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A splinter group of the Islamic Boko Haram group, led by Sheikh Abdulaziz Ibn Adam on Saturday insisted that it was ready to dialogue with government to the group’s current bloody campaign. Ibn Adam made the announcement at a news conference in Maiduguri. He said that the group had come to realise that it could not achieve its aim through violence. “You...

THE South-South Youth Movement for Non-Violence has said the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta cannot banish the Minister of Niger Delta, Mr. Godsday Orubebe, from the region. It expressed doubts over a statement purportedly issued by MEND declaring that Orubebe, had been banished from the oil-rich region. National President of the group, Mr....

Abia State Government has banned a militia outfit, Peace Corps of Nigeria. The government said the body was illegal and had been going round the local government areas in the state recruiting young men and women. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Ugochukwu Emezue, the government said the group was selling forms to youths. The...

Amman – A Syrian rebel group on Wednesday said that it had killed a Russian general working as an adviser to Syria’s ministry of defence in an operation in the western Ghouta region. The western Ghouta  region is at the outskirts of the capital Damascus. A video statement from a group calling itself the “Hawks Special Operations Battalion … a division...

Miyatti Allah Kautal Hore, a Fulani socio-cultural organisation, has said that it would, henceforth, deal with those who give themselves titles synonymous with Fulani communities across the country and use such titles to defraud and cheat people. Bello Bodejo, the National Chairman of the group, told journalists that some people from Benue State allegedly paraded...