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US President, Joe Biden has pledged to help organize efforts to rebuild Gaza and said creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel is the ‘only answer’ to the conflict.

Biden also said he had told the Israelis to stop ‘intercommunal fighting’ in the flashpoint city of Jerusalem.

However, he stressed ‘there is no shift in my commitment, commitment to the security of Israel” and added that until the region ‘unequivocally‘ acknowledges Israel’s existence ‘there will be no peace.’

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The idea of a two-state solution …

A former presidential aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for not attending the burial of the late Chief of Army Staff, General Ibrahim Attahiru, on Saturday.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that Buhari and Osinbajo were conspicuously missing at the burial of the late COAS and other military officers on Saturday.

Attahiru died in a plane crash close to the Kaduna Airport on Friday.

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Ten other officers were also killed when the Beachcraft 350 …

Somali leaders and stakeholders yesterday commenced negotiations Saturday aimed at organising new elections after the postponement of recent polls sparked one of the country’s worst political crises in years.

Tensions have continued to mount around the nation after President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed last month extended by two years a mandate which had expired on February 8.

Days after that decision, violence erupted in the capital as government forces clashed with pro-opposition groups who briefly took control of parts of the city.

In a bid to de-escalate the unrest, the president, better known by his nickname Farmajo, earlier this month …

The United Kingdom through the British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing has sent its condolence to the government and people of Nigeria over the death of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru.

Africa Daily News, New York had reported that the COAS died in a helicopter crash on Friday alongside 10 others in Kaduna.

In a tweet on Saturday, the British High Commissioner said; ‘Profoundly shocked & saddened by this terrible news’.

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‘Our deepest condolences to the family & friends of the late Chief of Army Staff,

Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, has slammed some Nigerians celebrating the death of the Chief Of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died alongside other top military officers in an air crash on Friday.

Africa Daily News, New York had reported that the army chief and other top military officers died on Friday evening when a military Beachcraft 350 conveying them crashed at the Kaduna International Airport.

While Nigerians mourn the officers, Shehu Sani on his official Facebook page on Saturday alleged that some Nigerians are rejoicing over the ugly incident.

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President Muhammadu Buhari was conspicuously missing at the burial of the late Chief of Army Staff, General Ibrahim Attahiru, on Saturday.

Attahiru died in a plane crash close to the Kaduna Airport on Friday.

10 other officers were also killed when the Beachcraft 350 aircraft came down due to bad weather.

Their remains were on Saturday moved to the National Mosque and the Nigerian Air Force Protestant Church venues of prayers.

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The burial rites started around 1pm and was attended by top dignitaries in Nigeria’s Armed Forces.

Their bodies …

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has entered judgment against the Federal Government and the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a defamation suit filed against them by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus.

The Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Adama Iyayi-Lamikanra, in a judgment delivered during a virtual court sitting on Thursday, said Secondus successfully proved his case that the defendants jointly and severally defamed him by publishing his name on the looters’ list in 2018.

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The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC), on Friday, said it has approved the dissolution of the State Caretaker Committee for the Cross River state chapter of the party.

This was contained in a statement by Kola Ologbondiyan.

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National Publicity Secretary of the party.

According to the statement, ‘The decision is in pursuant to the powers conferred on the NWC by the PDP Constitution.’

‘Consequently, the NWC has constituted a new State Caretaker Committee to pilot

The member representing Brass/ Nembe Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Hon Israel Sunny- Goli has sued for peace over the crisis that has engulfed Twon Brass in Brass Local Government Area of the State.

The community has been embroiled in crisis over prolonged power outage, pitching the people against the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC).

The people had protested for three consecutive days demanding that Agip restore power to the community.

However things took a turn for the worse when soldiers that were deployed to quell the protest shot one of the protesters in the leg and many were …