Lack of accountability for crimes against children emboldens impunity, Amnesty International says of the Chibok girls kidnap. By Amnesty International Nine years after Boko Haram abducted 276 students from a girls’ school in Chibok, 98 girls are still being held by Boko Haram and a slew of abductions have taken place since, revealing the utter […]
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This screengrab taken on May 12, 2014, from a video of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram obtained by AFP shows girls, wearing full-length hijabs and praying in an undisclosed rural location. Nigeria’s government on May 17, 2017, said another Chibok girl was free, having escaped from Boko Haram Islamists more than three years after […]
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President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged Nigerians to shun violence as supplementary elections hold across the country tomorrow. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct the supplementary elections for 94 legislative seats in federal and state parliaments. Supplementary governorship elections will also be conducted in both Adamawa and Kebbi states on the same day. […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) announced on Thursday that Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, is currently taking a rest in Europe ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Felix Morka, the APC National Publicity Secretary, confirmed this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. According to Morka, Tinubu is doing well and will swing […]
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Commuters are presently stuck on the Longbridge, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway due to the ongoing reconstruction of the road. There had been traffic improvements throughout the week on the road until Friday when the usual long hours of gridlock resurfaced. It was gathered that movement inward Lagos was at a standstill, as […]
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Following the collapse of a seven-story building under construction on First Avenue, in the Banana Island area of Lagos State, the state government has ordered that all development projects in the highbrow area be placed on hold. The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, in a statement on Thursday, said the process was […]
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The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, on Thursday, was presented with a letter of appointment as the Chancellor of the Kano State Government-owned Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Kumbotso. The state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, who was represented by the state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Muhammad Garba, presented the letter to the royal […]
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The Federal Government, on Thursday, said the amount spent on subsidising Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, between 2005 and 2021 was N13tn, adding that the country lost N16.3tn to oil theft from 2009 to 2020. It disclosed this in Abuja through the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative at a policy dialogue on oil swap, […]
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The presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu, says Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party could not have won the February 25 presidential poll because part of the votes he should have garnered was taken by the candidates of Labour Party, Peter Obi, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party, […]
Continue ReadingPolitical parties, including the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, are set to battle for 94 legislative seats in federal and state parliaments in Saturday’s supplementary elections. Supplementary governorship elections will hold in Adamawa and Kebbi states on the same day. In the general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission declared winners for […]
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