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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR] in its latest report put the number of refugees in Northeast region of the country at more than two million. The Boko Haram insurgency, which has lasted for more than a decade has in its wake created humanitarian crises in the region,
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There were significant changes in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the nation’s capital, Abuja, recently. The Pontiff, Pope Francis, announced the retirement of Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, 75, as Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Abuja and the appointment of his successor, former Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Ayau Kaigama. We welcome
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Cultism has for some decades, especially since 1980s, constituted a great nuisance in the nation’s higher institutions. As a result, secret societies usually made of small groups of students and even teachers with extreme religious , socio, ideological views and other interests have been employing violence in the cause of trying to impose their beliefs
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It is not cheerful news for Nigeria. A few days ago, the United Nations organ in charge of agriculture and food, the Food and Agricultural Organisation [FAO] expressed concern over ravaging hunger in Africa’s most populous nation. The FAO reported that Nigeria’s efforts at achieving zero- hunger by 2030
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Meyetti Allah Kautai Hore, a socio-cultural group, dedicated to promoting the interests of Fulani ethnic group across Nigeria displayed great candour recently when it apologised for the killings of farmers by its members in the last couple of years . The Fulani group tendered the apology on Saturday, October 26, to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue
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Nigeria enjoyed robust relationship with the former Soviet Union especially with the part of the division that remains today as Russia from the 1970s to 1990s.The history of Nigeria’s civil war, which was fought from 1967-1970 will not be complete without the military support the Russians provided the government of Gen. Yakubu Gowon to successfully
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The rainy season that is coming to an end brought in its wake floods that wreaked great havoc in many states and communities across the country. As a result properties, farmlands and economic trees were destroyed. It is sadly becoming a yearly challenge in the country. In Sokoto, thousands of hectares
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Nigeria is expected to hold two important elections before the end of the year. The Independent National Electoral Commission,[ INEC] ,is to conduct state governorship elections on Saturday, November 16 in Kogi state in North central, while Bayelsa in the south-south region of the country will witness another. Ordinarily the two elections in Bayelsa and
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The nation experienced monumental disasters arising from tanker explosions in Anambra and Benue states of recent. The more recent of the accidents took place within the last two weeks in Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra state, and along Onitsha-Enugu Expressway. No doubt, the deadliest of them all was the Ochanja fire incident in Onitsha on
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC], recently announced the finding of oil and gas in the north-eastern part of the country. Significantly, the discovery of petroleum in the Gongola Basin in commercial quantity is the first of its kind in the entire northern part of the country. NNPC broke what could pass as the most significant news from the
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