November 2021

A yet to ascertained number of people were feared killed on Friday night after a kerosene tanker exploded at the popular Kubwa Market in the nation’s capital.

According to eyewitnesses, at least five persons were burnt beyond recognition, while many were injured.

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The eyewitnesses explained that the tanker explosion resulted in a fire that affected a shop near the main market.

Operatives from the Nigerians Police, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp as well as the FCT Fire Service successfully brought the fire under control.

As of 8:45pm, fire fighters …

A Russian diplomat was found dead in October outside the country’s embassy in Berlin, it emerged Friday.

The man, whose lifeless body was recovered on October 19 on the pavement by police, had apparently fallen to his death from the embassy complex, according to the Spiegel weekly which first reported the case.

A German foreign ministry spokesman said the case was “known to the ministry” but would not provide further details.

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Confirming the death, the Russian embassy called it a “tragic accident”.

‘All the procedures related to repatriating the diplomat’s body

A jihadist attack in Niger’s volatile “tri-border” zone with Burkina Faso and Mali has killed dozens of members of a self-defence militia.

The assault took place on Tuesday at Adab-Dab, a village about 55 kilometres (32 miles) from Banibangou in the western region of Tillaberi, a source said.

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A motorcycle-borne defence force was attacked by “heavily-armed members of the ISGS (Islamic State in the Greater Sahara,” who were also on motorbikes, the source said.

‘In all, there are about 60 dead, nine missing and 15 escaped. The mayor of

Members of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) on Friday barricaded Governor Ben Ayade’s office in Calabar over several months of unpaid pensions and gratuities.

They bore placards demanding payment of pensions, gratuities and arrears of pensions owed them between August 2013 and November 2021.

They expressed regret, pain, hunger, anguish, untold hardship and frustration, saying the state government was insensitive to their plights.

They arrived Governor Ayade’s office when he was at the state House of Assembly for the funeral obsequious of late Mike Ogar, a former state legislator.

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The Bauchi State House of Assembly has rejected the recent recruitment exercise by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the state and described the process as a scam.

A statement signed and made available to journalists in Bauchi by the spokesman to the Speaker, Abdul Ahmad Burra, said the Assembly rejected the recruitment exercise in its resolution on the matter on Thursday’s plenary.

The resolution followed the submission of the report of the House Joint Committee on Security and Public Service on the NSCDC recruitment exercise, led by Honourable Sabo Bako Sade.

The joint committee stated …

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has refuted claims that he owns the land upon which the collapsed building in Ikoyi stood.

Osinbajo, who condoled with the families and relatives of all those who have died and those who were injured or affected in the collapsed building under construction on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, described the incident as a horrible tragedy.

Reacting to allegations that the said land was sold to him by Chief Michael Ade Ojo, Chairman of Elizade Motors; and reports that he some time ago intervened with the regulatory authorities in Lagos State to unseal the said property, Osinbajo …

The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has called for a credible and peaceful governorship election in Anambra State on Saturday.

TMG, the foremost independent civil society election observation organization in Nigeria, has over 400 member organisations.

On Friday, the Chairman, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, in a statement, encouraged voters to turn out en masse and vote.

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The renowned activist said the poll was an opportunity for the people to exercise democratic rights and choose their leader.

Rafsanjani reminded security forces that their duty is to ensure hitch-free voting and urged …