The Federal Government has said the sack of service chiefs is not the solution to the security challenges in the country. It said through presidential spokesman Garba Shehu in an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday that: “The clamour for the sack is out of place considering that the president is not subject to the […]
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The United Nations, UN, has retracted its initial casualty figure of farmers killed in Borno state during an attack on Zabarmari community in Jere local government area of the state. UN said the “gruesome” massacre against farmers killed “tens of people”, amending an earlier statement putting the death toll at 110. Eve Sabbagh, UN’s head […]
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Wisconsin became the last of six states to officially declare victory for Joe Biden late on Monday, in spite of the legal challenges posed by President Donald Trump to stop the certification of results. Biden’s victory in Wisconsin was certified following a partial recount that only added to his 20,600-vote margin over Trump, who has […]
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Five broad issues seem to be fueling upheavals surrounding the buildup to the 2023 election cycle, which is less than two years away. These issues include President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance and leadership style, arguments for and against zoning of the presidential slot, simmering crisis within the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, mutual suspicion within the […]
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Akwa Ibom, Benue, Taraba, Anambra, Abia top list of infections COVID-19 threatens progress made so far Despite efforts by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, to end Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) before 2030, no fewer than 560,000 persons living with the virus are not on treatment. This comes […]
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Mourners attend the funeral of 43 farm workers in Zabarmari, about 20km from Maiduguri, Nigeria, on November 29, 2020 after they were killed by Boko Haram fighters in rice fields near the village of Koshobe on November 28, 2020. The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats in the village of Koshobe. […]
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By Samuel Omojoye The morning after the night when protesters at Lekki toll gate were supposedly massacred by the Nigerian Army, the BBC News hour programme interviewed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu around 6am on whether he invited the army and who gave orders that unarmed protesters be shot. The governor confirmed that he invited the army […]
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Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal has been re-arraigned before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, in Maitama over his alleged involvement in grass cutting contract fraud to the tune of about N554 million. Lawal, who served as SGF under President Muhammadu Buhari, between August 27, 2015 […]
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Emefiele blames negative growth rate on lockdown The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to get the country a unified exchange rate for the naira. It remained stable at N378 to dollar on the CBN’s official rate. The naira was on Sunday exchanging at N500 to dollar at the […]
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An Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi (FUAM) Dr. Karl Kwaghger was Saturday night gruesomely murdered my gunmen. He was killed at the popular JS Tarka Foundation in Makurdi by the assailants who attacked him with a hard object on the head and later slit his throat before they […]
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