The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Alkali Baba Usman on Wednesday disclosed that 400 police officers would be trained on security management for the 2023 general elections. The IGP, who disclosed this in Abuja at a crucial meeting with Commissioners of Police and above, said the 400 police officers would be selected from across the country […]
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U.S. President Joe Biden. Julie Bennett/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Julie Bennett / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP) The OPEC+ group of major oil exporters meets Wednesday to discuss its output strategy after US President Joe Biden lobbied Saudi Arabia to boost production to tame energy-fuelled inflation. The cartel led by Saudi […]
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This handout photo taken and released by Malaysia’s Department of Information on August 2, 2022, shows Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi waving as she leaves the Parliament House after a meeting with Malaysian officials in Kuala Lumpur. – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Kuala Lumpur for her second stop […]
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Iranian lawmakers voted Wednesday to ratify a prisoner exchange treaty with Belgium, where the deal has been criticised for potentially enabling an Iranian diplomat jailed on terrorism charges to return home. Iran’s parliament approved the treaty by 195 votes to two, its Icana news agency reported. Two weeks ago, […]
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A human rights organisation, Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN), yesterday, faulted the arrest and trial of former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, in the United Kingdom (UK), saying it is a breach of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Ekweremadu has been remanded in prison custody in the UK over allegations […]
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The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to net zero by 2060 in the country. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Mr Hassan Musa, expressed the commitment at the 16th meeting of the National Council on Environment, organised by the ministry in Abuja, on Tuesday. Musa said […]
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By Matthew Agboma Ozah There is no gainsaying that university institutions are scattered across the country in drove, yet students are not learning in them, instead they languish and are frustrated at home. More so, the lecturers who are supposed to nurture and guarantee solid knowledge on the youth are idling away at home or […]
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The idea being mooted by the House of Representatives that brain drain of medical doctors can be stopped by legislation is a misnomer; a mere wishful thinking that can only scratch the problem on the surface. Exodus of doctors and other medical personnel to foreign land is not new, though it is obviously intensifying the […]
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, yesterday, backed the move by National Assembly members to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over his failure to end terrorism in the country. Members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had, last week, given President Buhari a six-week ultimatum to end insecurity or […]
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Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo speaks during a session at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan on June 13, 2022. (Photo by Issouf Sanogo / AFP) Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has challenged Course 30 participants of the National Defence College (NDC) to be relentlessly innovative in developing national security and defence strategy to address security […]
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