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By Francesca de Gasparis and Gabriel Manyangadze The theme for this year’s African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) to be held in Nairobi from September 6-10 is ‘Pathways to Recovery and Resilient Food Systems. Yet 15 years after its convener, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was founded in 2006, questions remain about […]Continue Reading
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Statement By Helen Clark, Board Chair of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, and Former Prime Minister of New Zealand   At a government-run maternity clinic in southern Kandahar province, Afghanistan, a woman is scared of losing her unborn child. Wati – pregnant for a fifth time in four years – has already […]Continue Reading
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The National  Chairman, North Central  People’s Forum,  Chief Gabriel Aduku, is a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview with Daily Trust on Sunday, the former Minister of State for Health explains the rationale behind the formation of the North Central People’s Forum. He also spoke on other issues bordering on insecurity, restructuring, and Continue Reading
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The public presentation of a new book titled Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices will hold on Thursday, August 19, 2021, at the Yar ‘Adua Centre, Abuja. Edited by Chido Onumah, the 437-page book is a collection of 60 essays by 60 young Nigerians to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. “These essays by young and articulate […]Continue Reading
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The newly-elected National Leader of Uk’Omu Igala Organization, Mr David Abutu, has called on the Federal Government to extend poverty-alleviation programmes and COVID-19 palliatives to the people of Kogi East Senatorial District, who are mainly peasant farmers and hard-hit by the current economic downturn. Mr Abutu made this appeal in his brief interaction with the […]Continue Reading
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BY ERIC TENIOLA General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, GCFR, will be eighty on Wednesday, August 17. He is the second-longest Military ruler in Nigeria, the first being General Yakubu Gowon(86), GCFR, who ruled Nigeria from 1 August 1966 to 29 July 1975. General Babangida ruled Nigeria from 27 August 1985-26 August 1993. His classmates at Government […]Continue Reading
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By Godwin Onyeacholem   Despite persistent calls by authentic advocates of good governance for a conducive atmosphere for a thriving democracy and freedom in Nigeria, the reactionary wing of the ruling class and its agents are not giving any chance for that to happen. The more they are caught red-handed—with self-incriminating evidence—and exposed in the very […]Continue Reading
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In preparation for 2023 General Elections, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Timbut Useni (rtd), on Wednesday, inaugurated members of the National Working Committee of the North Central Peoples’ Forum (NCPF). The event was held at the Forum’s Secretariat at Wuse Zone 4, in Abuja. NCPF was conceived to […]Continue Reading
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Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday chaired the induction of 1,000 hunters freshly engaged to join existing ones in the ongoing fight against Boko Haram. The hunters are to provide dedicated protection to farmers who cultivate crops in the outskirts of Jere, where over 70 farmers were killed in November 2020 as well […]Continue Reading