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Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, has asked the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, to withdraw soldiers attached to politicians as guards. “The country is facing a lot of insecurity now. So, withdraw these soldiers from politicians so that the soldiers can go and do their work,” Wike told the COAS, said. […]

  The recent alarm raised by the World Health Organization (WHO) that Nigeria may not be able to reach its set target of diagnosing and treating over 1.1 million tuberculosis (TB) cases by next year is indeed worrisome. As the global health watchdog, such an alarm by the WHO should not be ignored, especially, against […]

  In a blow to trade prospects for Senegal and seven other countries in West Africa, the much-discussed plans to replace the CFA Franc with the ECO currency look set to remain stalled for at least another year.   Under the ECO initiative, the countries’ central bank reserves would no longer be placed with the […]

Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, of the umbrella organisations of herdsmen in Nigeria, has finally confirmed what many Nigerians have long suspected: that the bandits now afflicting Nigerians are herdsmen. But the group’s admittance was not made in good faith; it was not made to condemn an evil act, but to colour it so it will […]

Now it is official: the insecurity in Nigeria, sadly, is only escalating under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, with no end in sight. The violence that has practically reduced Nigeria into a killing field and a kidnappers den; rapidly cruising through the nation with states now under siege, means nobody is safe anywhere in […]

Parents of the 39 students at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on Monday gave the Federal and Kaduna State Governments 48 hours to rescue their children. The students were kidnapped from their school 12 days ago. “It is now 12 dark dreary days since the unfortunate […]