President Muhammadu Buhari in Paris, France May 18, 2021. Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters Nigeria and Russia have signed a military cooperation deal providing a legal framework for the supply of equipment and the training of troops, the Nigerian embassy in Moscow said on Wednesday. President Muhammadu Buhari had expressed interest in such a pact with […]
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The Defence Headquarters on Wednesday said a board of enquiry has been constituted to ascertain the incidents that led to the security breachat the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA. It also denied claims that military personnel monitoring the closed-circuit television at the institution were asleep on Tuesday when the attack on the facility happened. The DHQ […]
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Euphemism Ezeh Owners of demolished structures in the Mpape community of the Federal Capital Territory are agonised by the massive destruction carried out by the Federal Capital Territory Administration in the area recently. Many are still counting their losses and accusing the administration of being insensitive to their plights. Seventy-year-old widow, Euphemism Ezeh, has yet […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Tuesday’s attack on the facility of the Nigerian Defence Academy will buoy the military’s determination to make a decisive end of criminality in the country, rather than dampen the morale of the Armed Forces as intended. His assurance was contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media […]
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Some of the doctors at the Saudi Arabia recruitment centre in Abuja. Photo: Olatunji Obasa Another holds Thursday Nigerian doctors in their hundreds, on Tuesday, stormed the Ladi Kwali Hall of the Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, as a consultancy firm, Meeds Consultancy, commenced interviews for those willing to work in Saudi Arabia. The firm organised the […]
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Russia’s central regions on Wednesday battled “extreme” wildfires fueled by an unusual heatwave that comes after forest fires linked to climate change ravaged Siberia for most of the summer. Authorities were fighting 15 wildfires in the Urals region of Sverdlovsk, the emergencies ministry said. The region — which lies on the border of Europe and […]
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All 13 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been summoned to an emergency meeting in Abuja on Thursday. A statement from the PDP Governors forum signed by its Director-General, C.I.D Maduabum explained that the chairman of the forum and governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, after consultation with his colleagues agreed to […]
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The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) says the review of the revenue allocation formula will be ready for presentation to President Muhammadu Buhari by the end of 2021. Chairman of the commission, Mr Elias Mbam, made this known while addressing newsmen in Abuja. He said the review was one of the major responsibilities […]
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the Nation’s total COVID-19 infections had jumped to 188,243, across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, as at of Tuesday August. These were the reported cases since the beginning of the pandemic in February 2020 in the country. The NCDC said this […]
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Chief of Defence Staff Major General Leo Irabor addresses troops at the theatre command operations Lafiya Dole in Maiduguri, on January 31, 2021. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP) The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Leo Irabor, has allayed the fears of Nigerians on the ongoing mass surrendering by members of the dreaded Boko […]
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