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Nearly three hundred Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the West African nation faces a spate of school kidnappings.   The girls, ages 10 and up, dressed in light blue hijabs and barefoot, packed into Zamfara state’s Government House […]

Nigeria on Tuesday received four million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the delivery of which through the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF, and WHO. The vaccines arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja about midday, onboard an Emirates airline. Those who received the consignment at the airport included the Chairman of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday declared Zamfara State a no-fly-zone, in response to recent security challenges erupting from the state. Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd, the National Security Adviser (NSA), announced this to State House Correspondents at the end of the National Security Council meeting, in Abuja. President Buhari also approved a ban on all […]

The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of the new Service Chief, with the President of the Red Chamber, Ahmad Lawan charging them to take the battle to the bandits and insurgents who are currently terrorizing the nation. Those confirmed were Major General Lucky Eluoye Onyenucheya Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Major General Ibrahim […]

…as ACF calls for his probe   Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State on Tuesday confirmed the release of the kidnapped students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe. The girls were abducted on Friday by bandits who stormed their school on motorcycles and Hilux vehicles. Confusion had trailed the release of the girls, as some […]

…as online registration commences   Nigeria will dedicate the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination to health care workers and other frontline workers, including the military, police, oil and gas industry workers, and workers at the country’s border posts.   This was disclosed on Monday by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, which announced […]

The strongly-worded statement by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), last Saturday urging Nigerians to rise up and protect themselves because the federal government was no longer able to protect her citizens against kidnappers and marauding criminals in different parts of the country, is one alarmist correspondence that will do nothing to ameliorate the worsening security […]

Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and foremost Human rights lawyer, has declared that asking President Buhari to resign is not an offence. Falana spoke in a statement released on Sunday against the background of the arrest by Salisu Tanko-Yakassai, a former Special Adviser on Media to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, by the […]

The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus in the House of Representatives, on Sunday, lampooned President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing the Department of State Services (DSS) to arrest Tanko Salihi Yakassai, a former aide to Kano State Governor, Umar Ganduje The PDP Reps noted that Yakassai was arrested after he criticized the Federal Government over […]