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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has denied a media report that 20 communities in the FCT are being threatened by erosion. The FCTA maintained that it was committed to ensuring the safety of lives and property of residents of the territory. The Public Relations Officer of Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD), Meeme Felicia, in a statement, said the publication ...

Fifteen persons have been killed and four communities completely burnt down after a suspected herdsmen attack on Wednesday in a community called Numan, Local Government Area of Adamawa State. The herdsmen attack came barely three days after Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked two mosques in Mubi, killing dozens and injuring many more. The villages affected were Bang, Nyanga, Bonki and ...

No fewer than five persons have been reportedly killed in a fresh communal clash between Igala, and Bassa Kwomu speaking tribe in Kogi State. It was gathered that over 50 houses were raised at Aloko-Oguma in Bassa Local Government Area following a communal clash that engulfed the community on Friday morning. Sources have it that the crisis erupted following a ...

A protest occurred on Wednesday by the residents of some communities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over lack of access to the only source of water to the areas. The communities are Tungan-Kwaso, Tungan-Kano and Tungan- Kukudagba. Newsmen who monitored the protest along Airport Road in Abuja, reports that the protesters barricaded the road. Armed policemen and other security ...

The Nation reports that three communities in Enugu State have been presented with N300 million cheque for their land acquired by the state government for the development of an industrial project. The communities, Ogwofia Owa, Enugu Eke and Akama Oghe were compensated for  2000 hectares of their land and the economic crops and structures on it. The cheque was presented ...

The Guardian reports that dozens of people were injured and about six houses torched in Aladja community yesterday as the unending land dispute between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja communities in Delta State boiled over yesterday. The fighting continued till in the evening when Navy, Army and Police personnel were deployed to both communities. No fewer than 18 persons, according to security ...

“The Kwara State Government imposes curfew on Iloffa and Odo Owa communities in Oke-Ero local council of the state.”- The Guardian The curfew, which took immediate effect, followed outbreak of hostilities between both communities. A statement by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Isiaka Sola Gold said human and vehicular traffic are not allowed in the affected areas during ...

“No‎ fewer than seven communities in Iluleha, near Sabongida-Ora, Owan West Local Government Area of Edo are under threat of gully erosion that have eaten deep into the only road that linked the community with the rest of the state.”- The Guardian The Guardian gathered that the gully in Uzebba area is measuring between about 50ft deep and 35ft and ...

“Delta State House of Assembly has called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to direct the state Commissioner of Police to deploy more officers and men to Amai and  Ezhiokpor communities in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the state to curtail a raging land dispute between both communities. The House, in a motion brought under matters of urgent public importance by the ...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has cautioned the warring communities of Aladja and Ogbe-Ijoh in Udu and Warri South West local councils of Delta State, threatening to hold the leaders of both communities responsible in the event of fresh outbreak of hostilities, The Guardian reports. According to The Guardian, Okowa warned the leaders yesterday in Asaba that government would wield the big stick ...