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Chief Jacob Buba Gyang, the Gbong Gwom Jos, and Chairman, Plateau Council of Chiefs, has said that state governors do not have the authority to redefine traditional boundaries. “I am not aware of any authority by a governor to redefine traditional boundaries. Government cannot redefine Read More …
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has given a two-week ultimatum to all local council chairman in the state to ensure that all bushes used as criminal hideouts by kidnappers and armed robbers are brought down particularly the Emohua axis of the East-West Road leading to Read More …
Not many are aware that there is a strong bond between the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona. The two traditional rulers have passed through thick and thin and come to a realisation that theirs is a destined relationship. Read More …
b]SULTAN OF SOKOTO, ONI OF IFE, OBI OF ONITSHA, OBONG OF CALABAR, ETSU OF NUPE, OTHERS, IN IMO FOR POST-ELECTION PEACE SUMMIT – AS GOVERNOR OKOROCHA EXPLAINS WHY OPPONENTS MISINTERPRET HIS FIRM BELIEF IN THE NATION’S UNITY AND CALL HIM “OKOROAWUSA” – WHILE THE ONI Read More …
There are fears that agitation for constitutional role for traditional rulers may make them political. What are your thoughts on this? In everything, I think we have to go back to history. From the beginning, before the colonialists came, every kingdom or community was governed Read More …
N645m demanded in ransom, N40m paid Although it started with militant groups in the Niger Delta resorting to taking foreign employees hostage, kidnapping has been elevated to the level of a full scale business in Nigeria. With the growing unemployment and the penchant to make Read More …
young Christian Lady, Falowo Moyinoluwa has been installed as the regent of Ibulesoro kingdom in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State after the demise of his father who was the King. She shared the story of how it all happened on her Facebook page. Read More …
By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS—Indigenes and residents of ancient Orugbo-Iddo Community, Ikosi-Ejirin Local Council Development Area, LCDA, a suburb in Ikorodu area of Lagos State, yesterday, stormed the state House of Assembly, Alausa, Ikeja to protest over alleged plans to install a non indigene as the Read More …
By Dirisu Yakubu The worsening security situation in some parts of the country, particularly in Zamfara state, North-West Nigeria, has in the past few weeks fetched the nation local and international opprobrium. Almost on a daily basis, gunmen whose identity remained a subject of conjecture, Read More …
The Zamfara Council of Chiefs has called on the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali to as a matter of responsibility and urgency name the traditional rulers allegedly colluding with armed criminals in the state. In a communiqué signed by the chairman of the state’s Read More …