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The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has carpeted the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media, Garba Shehu, over his comments that President Muhammadu Buhari is very passionate about Nigeria’s unity. Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC rather maintained that Buhari’s actions and inactions pose threat to the unity of Nigeria. The National President of …

The police in Anambra State have arrested four more suspects in connection with the attack on a former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Chukwuma Soludo. The police had earlier in a statement said one suspect was tracked and arrested through a telephone picked at the scene of crime. Soludo was attacked on Wednesday in his Isuofia hometown in …

Niger’s newly-elected president Mohamed Bazoum is set to be sworn into office on Friday, a democratic watershed overshadowed by jihadist violence and alleged coup bid two days ago. The inauguration will mark the first-ever transition between elected presidents in Niger’s six decades of independence from France — a historic moment that has been widely praised. But the Sahel country’s instability …

The Nigerian government has announced that over 51 million Nigerians have been registered for the National Identification Number (NIN), which is now required for major activities including getting an international passport and a driver’s license. The figure was announced in a joint press statement by the spokespersons of the Nigerian Communications Commission and the National Identity Management Commission. The officials …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday, announced its plan to recommence Continuous Voter Registration exercise (CVR) on June 28 across the country. The commission’s chairperson, Mahmood Yakubu, stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja. The exercise, as stipulated in Section 10 of Nigeria’s Constitution, should be on continuous basis but that has not been constant due to “exigencies of …

An overwhelming opinion in the public space about most Nigeria’s Police Force paints a picture of widespread corruption, crime and extrajudicial murder. It is also believed that the security agency is open to political machination. The police, to many discerning members of the public, is the embodiment of all that is wrong in the Nigerian system. Last year, the people, …

*Flags off 27th MSMEs Clinic in Gombe State *VP commends inventors of Nigeria’s first, medical-grade ventilator Nigeria produces 17 million tons of yams annually, but loses up to 40% of this yield due to the lack of adequate storage, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo made the disclosure on Tuesday, while Justifying the Federal Government’s intervention in the agro-based market. Prof. Osinbajo …

The female face of the revolution”, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom/Thomas Dehler Foundation, in cooperation with the PEN Center Germany, mark the start of an online Series of events on Writers in Prison / Writers in Exile on April 7th at 7 p.m. The event is intended to take a closer look at authors in need and to discuss …

…allocates 45, 000 hectares for oil palm cultivation …targets 200, 000 new jobs from investment Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) worth nearly N100bn with seven oil palm investors under the Edo State Oil Palm Programme (ESOPP) Investors Group, to boost oil palm production and rejuvenate the sector for global competitiveness. Other top government …

The report of strange deaths from an ‘unknown’ ailment later confirmed as Yellow fever in some communities in Enugu State led to a rush for vaccines in the state late last year. After the Nigeria infectious disease outfit, NCDC, confirmed that the strange deaths, put above 50 by residents and below 40 by officials, were from Yellow fever, the Enugu State …