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NPC National Population census can no longer hold this year as earlier projected by the National Population Commission, NPC. Chairman of the Commission, Eze Duruiheoma, has attributed this to the non-conclusion of Enumeration Area Demarcation, an important pre-census exercise. Eze explained that progress of the Enumeration Area Demarcation exercise was largely hampered due to paucity […]
AFGHANISTAN Afghan President Mohammad Ghani says he has outlined a new peace map which is aimed at finding negotiated settlement to the country’s lingering crisis Ghani said this in a statement today during an international meeting. He said the new measures for the peace and reconciliation efforts include a ceasefire, recognition of Taliban outfit as […]
IDPs A two-week medical outreach by the Nigerian Air Force is underway for Internally Displaced Persons in Maiduguri and Damboa, both of Borno State. Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, who made this known, said the medical intervention in continuation of efforts at alleviating the plights of Internally Displaced Persons […]
UNITED STATES U.S. Government has condemned the attitude of Nigerian and Cameroonian authorities towards the forty seven Anglophone detainees who were repatriated to Cameroon from Nigeria. A statement by the U.S. Department of State, signed by Department Spokesperson, Heather Nauert, noted that Nigeria and Cameroon have violated the rights of the detainees by forcibly repatriating […]
ISRAEL Israel has started handing out notices to twenty thousand male African migrants giving them two months to leave the country or risk being thrown in jail. Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is offering the migrants, three thousand five hundred dollars and a plane ticket to what it says is a safe destination in another […]
ESIT EKET The Chairman of Esit Eket Local Government Council, Iniobong Robson, has decried the spate of kidnapping and cultism in his domain. Robson made this known when the Police Commissioner, Samuel Adeyemi, led top officers on a familiarization and sensitization tour to the council. He alleged that eight of ten young men in the […]
IGP Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has deployed fifteen more police units, special forces, and technical and intelligence teams to contain further attacks in Benue State. Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who stated this yesterday, said the Inspector-General is seriously committed to ending the killings in the state and the country. Owoseni added that the […]
ARMY Nigerian Army has inducted a unit of Cameroon Defence Forces into Operation Lafiya Dole to fast track campaign against Boko Haram insurgents. Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, Onyema Nwachukwu, made this known in a statement issued in Maiduguri. Nwachukwu said the Cameroonian forces were inducted on Sunday at Gwoza, by the […]
POLICE Indications have emerged that the police plans to launch a special patrol convoy dedicated for a 24-hour surveillance of banks and other financial institutions around riverine areas and creeks in Lagos. This was contained in a four point communiqué issued at the end of a courtesy visit to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State […]
ARREST The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons has arrested a thirty eight – year- old herbalist for allegedly selling a new born baby for six hundred and fifty thousand naira . The accused, Chigozie John Emmanuel, also known as ‘Akuchi’, allegedly sold the new born baby to a woman whom he […]
