March 24, 2021

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has warned secessionist agitators such as ex-militant leader, Asari Dokubo, and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB to stay away from the state.

Gov. Wike stated this while receiving the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, on a courtesy visit at Government House, Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

He went further to declare that Rivers State would not be part of any move to secede from the country

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Recall that the Rivers State-based agitator, Dokubo had recently formed what he described …

The Senate has commenced moves to unbundle the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) with the consideration of a bill to repeal the Nigerian Postal Service Act 2004.

The bill, which scaled second reading on Tuesday, was sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu (APC, Lagos Central).

Tinubu said the legislation seeks a reform of the Postal Industry and to make Comprehensive Provisions for the Development and Regulation of Postal Services in Nigeria.

The lawmaker recalled NIPOST dates back 1852 and evolved from an exigency of the colonial administration to a Collection Office of the United Kingdom.

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United Arab Emirates’ Finance Minister and deputy ruler of Dubai, Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is dead.

He died at the age of 75.

NAN reports that his death was announced in a statement released by the Dubai media office on Wednesday.

According to the statement, UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed ordered that flags be flown at half-mast across the country until Saturday to mark three days of mourning.

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It also stated that Hamdan who had been unwell, underwent surgery abroad in 2020; though further details were not disclosed.…

There is serious relief as rebel administration in eastern Libya has officially handed power to the country’s new interim government, based in the capital, Tripoli.

A handover ceremony took place on Tuesday in Libya’s second city, Benghazi, headquarters until now of the eastern administration.

A new Government of National Unity, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and backed by the UN, was sworn in last week in Tripoli to replace the two rival administrations which have been fighting for control of Libya.

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In France, President Emmanuel Macron announced that …

Officials in the United States on Tuesday stated that North Korea fired two missiles off its west coast over the weekend in its first publicly known weapons test since Joe Biden took office as president in January.

Two senior officials from the Biden administration told reporters in a briefing call that the North Korean activity involved weapons systems that were not covered by UN Security Council testing bans.

Two other US officials, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, told news correspondents that North Korea had fired two short-range missiles but declined to elaborate.

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