The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has traced the foundation of banditry in Northern Nigeria to the British conquest of the Northern Protectorate in 1903 and the subsequent amalgamation with the Southern Protectorate in 1914.Ribadu, who delivered the combined convocation lecture of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, yesterday, chronicled
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Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and UNICEF have welcomed the new oral cholera vaccine (OCV), Euvichol-S, as the vaccine received World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification and can be made available to countries around the world.The organisations said the prequalification of this new product will help EuBiologics, the manufacturer, produce more volumes
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The conservator-general (CG) of the National Park Service, Ibrahim Goni, has said the absence of a national park in the South East zone is worrisome considering the critical roles such parks play.Goni stated this during a courtesy visit to Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, at Government House, Umuahia, the capital,
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Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has dismissed the preliminary objection filed by former governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, against the N4 billion security votes-related fraud charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).The court said the ex-governor cannot stop the EFCC
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By Hon Chibuike Jonas, ArochukwuSince 1970, after the civil war (popularly known as the Biafran War), the development and progress of Southeast Nigeria have always been a concern.For more than five decades, Southeast Nigeria has yet to be healed from the bruises of the civil war. The region has continually
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As intrigues within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) approach a climax, the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) passed a vote of confidence on the acting national chairman, Ambassador Umar Ilya Damagum, on Wednesday, April 17.Several intra-party camps have been holding secret meetings ahead of various critical meetings of the PDP’s
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Kano State High Court has granted an exparte order restraining the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, from parading himself as a member of the party.Subsequently, the court ordered that, henceforth, Ganduje should desist from presiding over all affairs of the National Working Committee
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Some operatives of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have besieged the residence of the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in Abuja.The EFCC operatives reportedly blocked the roads leading in and out of Benghazi Street in the Wuse Zone 4 area, where Bello
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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday granted bail in the sum of N10 million to Nigerian businessman, Pascal Okechukwu, a.k.a Cubana Chief Priest, charged with alleged Naira abuseThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned the defendant on a three-count charge of allegedly spraying and tampering with the
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On Thursday April 11, 2024, Nigeria lost one of its finest, a statesman, first class brain, technocrat par excellence and a man of impeccable character, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the first civilian governor of Old Abia State and a presidential material if Nigeria is a country that believes in capacity, fairness,
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