Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, says some ‘people’ are miffed over the release of hundreds of schoolboys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State. “When those boys were kidnapped, some people were clearly happy, and now are also clearly not happy with their rescue. Nigeria will always win,”...
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Insecurity: Order Buhari to sack service chiefs, Ex-Adamawa gov candidate Uba urges court
A former governorship candidate on the platform of the African Action Congress in Adamawa State, Alhaji Said Uba, has filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order compelling the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to sack the service chiefs for their alleged failure to curb insecurity in the country....
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Uzodinma sacks Imo varsity VC Obasi
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has sacked the Vice-Chancellor of Imo State University, Owerri, Prof Adaobi Obasi. Uzodinma’s Chief Press Secretary, Oguwike Nwachuku, in a statement, said the decision to sack Obasi was reached at an Executive Council Meeting chaired by the governor. Nwachuku disclosed that the VC who is an aunt to a former...
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Reopening: Activities yet to commence at Seme, Illela borders
Twenty-four hours after the Federal Executive Council, declared four of the nation’s land border open, activities are yet to resume at the Illela border, linking Sokoto State in Nigeria to Konni, Niger Republic. Also, Nigeria’s land border with Benin Republic at Seme, near Badagry, Lagos State, remained closed, more than 24 hours after the Federal...
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US election: I’m very disappointed in Supreme Court —Trump
US President Donald Trump has expressed disappointment in the country’s Supreme Court after the apex court rejected a Republican lawsuit that sought to overturn the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in last month’s presidential election. “I am very disappointed in the United States Supreme Court, and so is our great country!” the Republican incumbent tweeted...
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Cross River Commissioner of Police, Jimoh, is dead
The Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Abdulkadir Jimoh, is dead. He died on Friday morning at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital allegedly of COVID-19-related ailment. The Chief Medical Director of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Prof. Ikpeme Ikpeme confirmed the death of Jimoh. He said the CP was brought into the hospital...
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Kankara schoolboys: Buhari congratulates Masari, Army for rescue operation
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has congratulated the Nigerian Army for organising the rescue operation of hundreds of schoolboys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State. The President, however, said his regime and the military have a lot of work to do regarding the insecurity in the country. He stated this...
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Doctor, two daughters die in Lagos home fire
A medical doctor, Ijeoma Idaresit, who described herself as having a dream of improving Nigeria’s poor health sector, has died in a fire along with her two children. Idaresit, who was until her death, the Conference Director at Postpartum Support Network Africa, was said to have died along with her two daughters at their Parkview,...
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Katsina schoolboys: Ezekwesili seeks abducted Chibok, Dapchi girls’ release
A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has renewed her demand for the release of schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok and Dapchi after 344 abducted Katsina schoolboys were freed on Thursday. UGAMATV reports that hundreds of schoolgirls were kidnapped in Chibok and Dapchi in 2014 and 2018 respectively. Though the terrorists later returned more than 100...
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BREAKING: Released Kankara schoolboys arrive in Katsina
Hundreds of schoolboys abducted last Friday from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, and released on Thursday night have arrived Katsina State, UGAMATV has learnt. The students were escorted into the state capital by security operatives. Some of the schoolboys, who were still clothed in their school uniforms, were led to an expansive hall in the Government...