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10 banditry lords and their territories in Zamfara  

By Ele Ifah Sunday 283 0
 Armed bandits have partitioned Zamfara State, with each of their key leaders asserting control over ‘territories.’ The following brief sketches on each of them are based on open sources and eyewitness accounts of residents in communities where bandits operate. Ardo Nashawari Nashawari was born in Gusami district in Birnin Magaji local government area of the […]Continue Reading
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People-First Principle of Kim Jong Un

By Ele Ifah Sunday 145 0
The working people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, who overfulfilled the production plan for the first half of this year by 44% under extremely difficult conditions, are scoring successes in the second half with greater stamina. The experts’ analysis is that they are encouraged by the decisions adopted at the Third Plenary Meeting […]Continue Reading
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The Taliban, Boko Haram and what Nigeria must do urgently

By Theophilus Abbah 152 0
By Theophilus Abbah The Taliban now holds sway in Afghanistan, a continent apart from Nigeria, but the waves from its activities have always shaken Jihadist enthusiasm in our clime. For the late 1990s to early 2000s, its franchise, Yobe Taliban, who preached the Jihadist brand of Salafi doctrine, created panic in communities. The choice of […]Continue Reading
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Mbaka foresees more troubles for Nigeria if…

By Ele Ifah Sunday 154 0
From Tony Adibe, Enugu The Spiritual Director, Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), Rev. Father Camellus  Ejike Mbaka, has said that the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy was just the beginning of what would befall Nigeria if the regime of President Muhammad Buhari did not change and God did not intervene. He also called on […]Continue Reading
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Industrial agriculture is no solution for Africa

By Ele Ifah Sunday 169 0
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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‘We cannot abandon Afghanistan’s women, children, and adolescents now’- Helen Clark

By Ele Ifah Sunday 204 0
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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Dangote’s $2bn Petrochemical Plant to Produce 77 Grades of Polypropylene

By Ele Ifah Sunday 154 0
Dangote’s $2 billion Petrochemical Plant located in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, is designed to produce 77 different high-performance grades of polypropylene in the country. With a turnover of $1.2 billion, the 900,000 metric tonnes per annum capacity Dangote Petrochemical plant, situated alongside the Dangote Refinery, has been strategically positioned to cater to the Continue Reading
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Why we formed North Central People’s Forum -Chief Gabriel Aduku

By Ele Ifah Sunday 170 0
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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Book on Nigeria at 60 Set for Launch August 19

By Ele Ifah Sunday 168 0
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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Igala leader to FG: Extend poverty-alleviation schemes to Kogi East

By Ele Ifah Sunday 132 0
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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The Cross Babangida Still Carries at Eighty

By Ele Ifah Sunday 215 0
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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