The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has apologised to the families and victims of the accidental air strikes that occurred on January 24, 2023, near Rukubi in Doma local government area of Nasarawa State.At a meeting during the weekend, he told the families in Lafia that,
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The distraught family of Ubokobong Ime Udoworen, a youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District (Akwa Ibom North-West), who doubles as one of the special assistants (SAs) to the Senate President, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has petitioned the inspector-general of police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, over
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Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has advised parents not just to declare the loss of their children but also to insist on knowing the cause of their deaths.Falana stated this at the weekend when he joined numerous Nigerians at Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri South West local government area of Delta State,
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Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested suspected kidnapper Bello Mohammed, 28, of Zamfara State, in Kaduna, who is responsible for killing Nabeeha, one of the six Al-Kadriyar sisters who were abducted from Bwari, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on January 2, 2024.Force spokesperson, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has threatened to drag state governors in the country and the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nyesom Wike, to court if they fail to account for the funds allocated for local governments since 1999.SERAP, which made the threat in a Freedom of
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Katsina State Governor, Dikko Umar Radda, has charged residents of the state to remain strong in protecting themselves against bandits attacking their communities.He gave the charge at the commissioning of three Islamiyya schools constructed by a philanthropist, Alhaji Abubakar Dardisu, at Yammama in Malumfashi and Mani local government areas of
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The federal government is set to commence the second phase of vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) by May 2024 in 21 states.The executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Muyi Aina, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja.The first phase of the vaccination
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared an ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, wanted after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos, residence when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral Estate, Lekki, on Wednesday, January 24th, following credible intelligence that
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The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) and over 38 Civil Society Organisations, under the umbrella of the Coalition of National Civil Society Organizations (CNCSOs), have described online reports linking Nigeria's Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, to alleged multibillion-naira oil bunkering and contract-splitting fraud as “the handiwork
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Uchechukwu Okoroafor,AbujaIn a significant stride toward technological inclusion and economic empowerment, the Deputy Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has orchestrated a groundbreaking collaboration with NIGCOMSAT to establish the NIGCOMSAT Community Enterprise Digital Hub (CEDIH) across all Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the Southeast.This transformative initiative is poised
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