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About 70 per cent of Nigerians presently living in Turkey are undocumented migrants whose Visa or residency has expired, the Vice President, Nigerian Community in Turkey, Enifome Ubogu has said. Ubogu disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, saying 600,000 Nigerians, including those studying, are currently residing in Turkey. Ubogu, who is also the Chief Executive …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the federal government would wait for the decision of the Lagos State government on the final report of the state’s judicial panel of inquiry submitted to the governor this week. Mr Buhari spoke at the State House, Abuja, on Thursday, while receiving Anthony Blinken, the United States Secretary of State. The report, which was leaked hours …

Nine years after Oladapo Joseph died as a senior officer in the Nigerian Army, his widow, Bolajoko, continues to suffer amid official neglect. The couple tied the nuptial knot at Ilorin, capital of Kwara State, in 1983 as fresh graduates. Joseph worked as a teacher for eight years before joining the military in 1991. “I already had two children for …

The Federal Government yesterday said it would address the basic demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, next week. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this at a tripartite meeting organised by  Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, between the government and the union in Abuja yesterday. It would be recalled that ASUU had …

My beloved people, rape is a form of attack that is universal. It has been used to subdue and humiliate, from the battlefields of Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine etc to the jail cells of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and other places, and IDP camps in Nigeria and other places. But it is primarily women and children who are its targets. As …

A bill seeking mandatory and free healthcare service for all Nigerian children, on Tuesday, scaled through second reading in the Nigeria’s House of Representatives. Titled “Bill for an Act to make Health Care Service Delivery Free for all Children in Nigeria; and for Related Matters (HB. 1504),” it  is sponsored by Hon. Bello Kaoje (APC, Kebbi). Kaoje who led the …

Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu has flagged off the state’s Second Phase Outbreak Response (OBR) for Circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio Virus Type 2. The flag-off ceremony, which was held at Eyaen Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC), Benin City, Uhunmwode Local Government Area of Edo State, was to kick-start a coordinated response to routine immunisation. Shaibu expressed appreciation to …

In an unusual interview published by Vatican News ahead of the U.S. bishops’ vote this week on the document titled “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church,” Cardinal Roger Mahony, the retired Archbishop of Los Angeles, calls the upcoming document “totally unnecessary.” He says: it “was intended primarily to go after and penalize Catholic legislators.” Last …

Demolition of illegal structures constructed under high tension cables and other unauthorized places in the Benin metropolis has been intensified by Edo State Government. The exercise is aimed at removing structures by illegal developers and squatters that trade in unauthorized locations such as under the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) High Tension Lines in the metropolis. The Commissioner for Physical …

*Condoles with Dangote, Dantata families Late Alhaji Sani Dangote, the younger brother to Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, was not only a brother and friend but also a collaborator in some of the decisions taken by the Buhari administration, especially in the agricultural sector, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, said on Wednesday. Prof. Osinbajo stated this in Kano during a …