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Governor Alia’s ‘brothers in the bush’ unleash terror on Benue

By Editor April 10, 2024 36 0

Key points About 250 killed between February and early April, 2024 12 Local Government Areas under siege Ultimatum to foreign herders to leave fall on deaf ears ‘Governor does not visit victims’ ‘Crisis can’t end until government comes up with a data-based economic policy’ He is doing his best – spokesman By Charity Roberts On […]Continue Reading

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UBA partners Afreximbank, confirms NNPC received $2.25b

By Editor January 14, 2024 80 0

By Emmanuel Kwada Afreximbank has announced an initial disbursement of US$2.25 billion under a syndicated US$3.3 billion Crude Oil Prepayment Facility sponsored by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. The announcement was published on its website on Saturday. The Cairo-based bank stated that the landmark financing is the  largest syndicated loan ever raised by Continue Reading

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Blood and crucifixion on Plateau

By Editor December 31, 2023 70 0

Bishop Matthew Hassan KUKAH   Those invisible men came to the Plateau again, bearing their gifts of death and destruction. They came from the deepest pit of hell, the habitat of the devils that they are. They are children of darkness, sons of Satan. They opted to extinguish and snatch the light of the joy […]Continue Reading

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Nigerians turn to unregulated local herbs for treatment as essential drugs remain unaffordable

By Editor November 29, 2023 90 Post a comment

… Saw Palmetto cancer drug price surges from N65,000 to N200,000 in just one year. Key points: Patients now result to use of unregulated drugs Essential medicine scarce, out of stock Major health crisis looms as prices of drugs prices soar How GSK’s exit complicates Nigeria’s drug problem Government need to promote localization of pharmaceutical […]Continue Reading

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Governorship election: How did Kogi Central produce shocking 300,000+ votes?

By Editor November 14, 2023 129 0

Key points: IReV, data reveal frauds in 2023 Kogi governorship election Results make nonsense of N105bn investment in BVAS, IReV Figures at variance with those of previous senatorial and governorship polls What Electoral Act says about over-voting ‘INEC must arrest, investigate and prosecute officials who compromised’ Theophilus Abbah The data on the INEC Result Viewing Continue Reading

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Democracy, power struggle, and Kogi elections

By Editor November 9, 2023 110

By Theophilus Abbah Key points Forth coming Kogi election is taking the form of a murderous power struggle The Police seldom make arrest of suspects involved in violent acts against opposition political parties Criminals emboldened to shed blood and wreak havoc on perceived opponents of the APC as Police look away The disposition of the […]Continue Reading

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Migration is not the West’s problem, it is Africa’s

By Editor October 24, 2023 130

A ZAM TRANSNATIONAL INVESTIGATION By Elizabeth BanyiTabi (Cameroon), Theophilus Abbah (Nigeria), Emmanuel Mutaizibwa (Uganda), Ngina Kirori (Kenya) and Brezh Malaba (Zimbabwe) A new ZAM transnational investigation into migration from five African countries shows that, in many cases, the urge to leave is so desperate that migrants consciously risk extortion by smugglers, Continue Reading

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Where exit is the biggest cash cow

By Editor October 24, 2023 127

Zimbabwe’s émigrés deliver billions into an ailing economy By Brezh Malaba “One of the most painful realities of being a teacher in Zimbabwe is that you cannot afford to give your own children a decent education,” says Obert Masaraure (39). Masaraure is a teacher and a trade unionist, as well as a parent with three […]Continue Reading

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Uganda| Between prayer and protest

By Editor October 24, 2023 122

By Emmanuel Mutaizibwa “He can pray for your visa,” promises apostle Goodwin, from his stage at the Zoe Ministries evangelical settlement on the shores of Lake Victoria, just outside Uganda’s capital Kampala. “Many have been helped already. They have travelled, they are working in the United States. You only have to bring offerings and he’ll […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria | The returnees who leave again

By Editor October 24, 2023 135

By Theophilus Abbah Stuck in the desert in Algeria “with nothing”, Uka Ifeanyi, on February 14 2023, accepted an offer by the International Organisation on Migration (IOM) to “resettle” back home in Nigeria. Brought back by air to Lagos, the IOM staff “asked us to wait for three months for our accommodation and resettlement,” he […]Continue Reading

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Kenya | No alternatives

By Editor October 24, 2023 116

Ngina Kirori On Christmas Day in 2019, at her wits end after failing for long periods to put enough food on the table at home, Faith Murunga left Kakamega, her rural area in Kenya, with an “agent” who offered her a domestic worker job in Saudi Arabia. “I simply could not bear to see my […]Continue Reading

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Cameroon | Hope dies last

By Editor October 24, 2023 106

By Elizabeth BanyiTabi DOUALA, 2 June 2023 At the reception after the funeral of Bryan Achou*, people commiserate about death of the young man, who was only 28. “He’s a kid from my neighborhood! In less than two weeks we lost two children. One was in the oceans between Turkey and Greece, the other was […]Continue Reading