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This comes a few days after the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) urged its members to remove all Nigerian flags mounted in “Biafra land.” Commercial banks in the South-East region of Nigeria have started bringing down the Nigerian flag from their poles, SaharaReporters has learnt.  This comes a few days after the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) urged its members …

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said frustration and hopelessness now pervades the nation as the country marks 61 years of Independence on October 1. In a statement to mark Nigeria’s Independence Anniversary,  titled: “Nigeria at  61: Let us resume our march to greatness”, President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, lamented that the symptoms of the break in Nigeria’s  “progress march stare us …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), during his nationwide broadcast commemorating the nation’s 61st independence, advanced the reason behind the high prices of food in the country. While alleging that the nation’s food capacity had increased despite the farmer-herder crises that had upset food supply, Buhari said the high prices of food was caused by middlemen who “buy and …

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that the ban on microblogging site, Twitter, be lifted. President Buhari made the disclosure in his October 1 independence anniversary speech on Friday morning. However, the President said, the lifting of the ban is based on Twitter meeting the conditions set by the Presidential Committee (and its Technical Team) over which they engaged with Twitter. …

INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTY-FIRST INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, FRIDAY 1ST OCTOBER, 2021. President Muhammadu Buhari Citizens of Nigeria. It is with full gratitude to God that today, we celebrate Nigeria’s sixty-first Independence Anniversary. For 1st of October 1960 to happen, all hands were on deck. …

Edo State Government has intensified the vaccination of citizens across the state’s 18 local government areas, urging those who have not been inoculated to come out and get vaccinated in order to remain healthy and protected against the deadly virus. The State COVID-19 Incident Manager, Dr. Andrew Obi, gave the charge after the daily virtual meeting of the State COVID-19 …

United States House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on Thursday to avert a shutdown by extending government funding through December 3. The bill passed the Senate earlier in the day with a bipartisan vote, and the measure must now be signed into law by President Joe Biden, which he is expected to do, the CNN reported. Government funding …

Oyo State Government says it will ensure the domestication of national medical oxygen policy to reduce infant, child and maternal mortality and COVID-19 related deaths. Dr Muideen Olatunji, the Executive Secretary, Oyo State Primary Healthcare Board, made the commitment at the Stakeholders Engagement Meeting on Oxygen Security on Thursday in the state, according to report by the News Agency of …

Kaduna, Nigeria –  A Catholic priest has described last Sunday’s attacks on villages in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State as a “massacre” against native people, many of whom are Christian. An estimated 49 people, including women and children, were killed in a two-hour-long attack by Muslim Fulani herdsman who “came in large numbers and began shooting at anything on sight,” according …

Washington, D.C. –  Bishops should consider requiring DNA tests or physical examinations to ensure that all seminarians are biological men, said Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki in a recent memo sent to the members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). “Recently, the Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance was made aware of instances where it had been …