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The World Health Organisation’s representative in Sudan, Dr Nima Abid, on Tuesday, said the ongoing violent conflict between the Sudanese military and the RSF had claimed at least 459 lives and injured 4,072 others as of April 24. Joining a UN press briefing in Geneva by video, Abid said, however, that the figures were probably “very much underestimated.” The WHO ...
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April, 2023
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28 April
Four in court for threatening Tiwa Savage
Four persons were on Tuesday arraigned before a magistrates’ court sitting in Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly threatening the life of a popular singer, Tiwa Savage, and an attempt to defraud her. The defendants, Eniola Adeniyi, Donatus Osabanumonu, Idorenyi Okon and Michael Rodolphe, were arraigned by the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Annex, Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos, before Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun ...
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28 April
Tinubu speaks tough on National Assembly positions sharing, gives direction
The president-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, has admonished the All Progressives Congress governors to work with the party to avoid precipitating a leadership crisis in the National Assembly. Tinubu asked the governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Hope Uzodimma (Imo) and others to work with the party leadership and lawmakers on the election of principal officers of the National Assembly. The ex-Lagos State ...
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28 April
Tinubu : l’m first Muslim minority from the South-West to be president
The president-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress has thanked God for making him the president elect of Nigeria. In an emotion-laden voice, Tinubu expressed gratitude to God that he, being “the first Muslim minority from the South-West got the blessing of Allah to be elected president.” The ex-Lagos State governor spoke on Thursday during a meeting with ...
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28 April
Tinubu promises APC chieftains who lost elections
The president-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, has offer glimmer of hope to some notable governors and former governorship candidates who lost in their states at the 2023 polls. He was referring to the Plateau State governor who was the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council and his Ebonyi State colleague who both lost their senatorial bids. Others who lost the ...
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28 April
UK PM writes Tinubu ahead of inauguration
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has written to President-elect Bola Tinubu ahead of his inauguration. In the letter, Sunak said he “looks forward to working” with Tinubu who won the presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in February. Sunak said he hopes to welcome Tinubu to London in April 2024 for the second Africa Investment ...
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27 April
Do Tiv people in Benue Offer Wives To Visitors as gift ?
When I checked my NYSC posting and saw I had been posted to Benue states, I felt disappointed. I had hoped to go to the southeast particularly a village in the heart of Igboland and experience a glimpse of the world Chinua Achebe had described in his books. As I was grumbling in disappointment about how much I didn’t want ...
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27 April
Tinubu’s long-term associate Gwadabe is dead
President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed his grief over the passing of his long-term political associate and elder statesman, Malam Musa Gwadabe. Gwadabe, a former Minister of Labour and Productivity and one-time Secretary to the Government of Kano State died on Wednesday in Kano at 87. Gwadabe died Wednesday morning (today) at the age of 86 at a Kano ...
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27 April
Missing Enugu Popular Guber Aspirant Found Dead
Mr Dons Udeh, a governorship aspirant during the last Gubernatorial election in Enugu State has been found dead. Ude, who contested under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, was reported missing a few days ago. Emerging reports indicate that his lifeless body was found at the 9th Mile Area of Enugu State. The state Commissioner of Police, ...
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26 April
Sudan conflict: FG to evacuates 5,500 Citizens with N150m, hires 40 buses
The Federal Government will today commence the evacuation of about 5,500 Nigerians, including students stranded in Khartoum and other cities in Sudan. To facilitate the repatriation, the government has released N150m for hiring 40 buses to convey its desperate citizens from Sudan to Cairo in Egypt. The money was paid to an undisclosed transport company on Tuesday at 12:37 pm ...
