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Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has condemned the killing of two humanitarian aid workers and six others in Guma Local Government Area by violent Fulani militia.

Speaking in a chat with reporters yesterday, Ortom pointed out that; ‘The presidency is not yet ready to address the insecurity in the country perpetrated by herdsmen based on its body language’,

The governor also lamented that one of his relatives who is a 200 level undergraduate at the Benue State University Makurdi was also killed in the recent attack.

The governor further revealed that the killers used one of the health workers’ …

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has admitted that Nigerians are going through difficult hardship which is occasioned by rising prices of foodstuffs and others.

The president, in his Eid El-Adha greetings, reiterated the determination of his administration to create a just, balanced and prosperous country in which the safety of life and property is assured and guaranteed.

Reflecting on current challenges facing the country, the President stated that ‘COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the economies of all countries, including Nigeria, in addition to the fact that floods have caused large scale destruction to agricultural farmlands, thereby impacting negatively …

No fewer than Sixty-eight lawmakers comprising speakers and members of State House of Assemblies from the north have opposed power shift to the south, come 2023.

The convener of the meeting, Mathew Kolawale, who briefed newsmen yesterday, explained that the lawmakers resolved to take a stand on the presidential ambition of Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello.

‘We believed that the rotation of the presidency should be in favour of the Northern part of the country.

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‘This is because, from 1999, the southern part of the …

US President, Joe Biden has asserted that social media misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccinations is ‘killing people’ while calling on Facebook to ‘clean up its act’.

Speaking to reporters at the White House yesterday as he left for a weekend at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Biden said; ‘They’re killing people. The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people’.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the White House is turning up the pressure on social media companies to weed out what officials say is widely spread misinformation on coronavirus vaccinations.

According to US …

President Joe Biden will welcome Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi to the White House this month, his office has confirmed.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the July 26 meeting is targeted to ‘highlight the strategic partnership between the United States and Iraq,’ the White House said in a statement.

Kadhemi and US envoy Brett McGurk discussed the pulling out of troops from Iraq Thursday in Baghdad.

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No fewer than 3,500 foreign soldiers are still on Iraqi territory, including 2,500 Americans, who have been posted to help …

The Federal Government has revealed that popular Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, who is also known as Sunday Igboho is trying to acquire a new passport to flee the country.

It added that the government had placed Igboho on the stop-list in order to facilitate his arrest and directed the security agencies to apprehend him anywhere he is found.

In the security circle, a person whose name is on the stop-list is denied all constitutional rights and privileges a citizen is entitled to.

The Federal Government’s directive against Igboho was contained in a letter by the Nigeria Immigration Service dated …

The Igbo Lawyers Association (ILA) has insisted that Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is not guilty of jumping bail in 2017.

The lawyers also faulted the way and manner the IPOB leader was allegedly abducted in Kenya and bundled to Nigeria.

Chuks Muoma, leader of ILA and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), told journalists in Aba, Abia State, that rather than jump bail, Nnamdi Kanu only preserved his life by running away from the police, Department of State Services, DSS, and army operatives who attacked his home in 2017.

‘After he was granted