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A Muslim group known as the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged the Federal Government to compensate farmers whose crops were destroyed by herdsmen’s cows across the country.

The director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola, who made this plea in a statement suggested that the compensation could be by installment or any which way the government deems it fit.

According to him, the MURIC now has concrete evidence of the culpability of herdsmen, including video clips in which cows destroyed farms belonging to members of the organization.

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US President Joe Biden has said that he anticipates the US rivalry with China will take the form of ‘extreme competition’ rather than conflict between the two world powers.

Biden revealed this in an excerpt of a CBS interview aired Sunday while stating that he has not spoken with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping since he became US president.

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‘He’s very tough. He doesn’t have — and I don’t mean it as a criticism, just the reality — he doesn’t have a democratic, small D, bone in his …

Nigeria’s immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai (Rtd) has revealed why he won’t respond to the comments by the opposition party while insisting that he owes no one explanation over his recent appointment as one of the non-career ambassadors.

Buratai disclosed this while speaking with journalists after a special gala night organised for him by members of the 29th Regular Course Association of the Nigerian Defense Academy in Abuja on Saturday.

Buratai and other Service Chiefs ‘voluntarily resigned’ their positions on 26 January 2021, after months of calls for their sack following a spate of insecurity …

President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed America for supporting the candidacy of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of Director-General of World Trade Organisation (WTO).

The office of the United States Trade Representative announced this on Friday.

In a statement on Saturday by his spokesperson, Gara Shehu, Buhari said the withdrawal of the country’s initial objection was remarkable.

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‘We certainly welcome the decision of the new U.S administration to remove the last obstacle in the path of Dr. Okonjo-Iweala to becoming the first female and the first person of African descent

A Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has said those agitating for Biafra and Oduduwa Republics are not different from the Boko Haram sect terrorists.

Gumi stated this in an interview with BBC Pidgin on Saturday while reflecting on the insecurity situation in the country.

The cleric said it would be unfair to claim Nigerians want the country divided because of the activities of some ‘miscreants‘ who are only pushing their own different ideologies and interests.

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The cleric claimed that the majority of Nigerians …

The United States has at last backed Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the Director-General position at the World Trade Organisation, WTO.

This followed the stepping down of South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee from the contest on Friday.

The US had blocked Okonjo-Iweala’s candidacy for the DG WTO job back in October after all member countries endorsed her candidacy.

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The US backed Yoo for the job because Okonjo-Iweala was supported for the job by China.

A statement from the Office of the US Trade Representative on

Libyan delegates at UN-led talks outside Geneva on Friday made the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as prime minister of a transitional unity government to take the war-ravaged country through to elections in December.

Dbeibah was chosen along with a three-member presidency council to head a unity administration and steer the North African state towards the ballot box on December 24. The Canadian-trained engineer from the city of Misrata and founder of the Libya al-Mostakbal (Libya of the Future) movement previously led the Libyan Investment and Development Company under dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

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Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has disclosed that the Federal Government is aware of talks between renowned Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi, and bandits terrorizing Zamfara State.

He said it was not unusual for the cleric to act as a bridge between the government and the bandits.

Mohammed spoke while featuring on TVC’s ‘This Morning’ show monitored by The Nation.

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He said the government was using some back channels to address the security challenges, adding the bandits might be ready to listen to the cleric than they …

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala desire to become the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) may have gotten a major boost as South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee on Friday abandoned her bid to head the global body.

Yoo had consulted with the United States — her prime backer — and other major countries and ‘decided to renounce her candidacy’, South Korea’s trade ministry said in a statement.

The process to name a successor to Roberto Azevedo had been deadlocked since October when key WTO ambassadors tapped Okonjo-Iweala as the best pick to lead the organization …

The Federal Government on Thursday, disbursed ₦27 billion to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as part of the MSMEs Survival Fund Scheme.

This was disclosed by the Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment, Amb. Mariam Katagum, while addressing newsmen on Thursday, in Abuja.

The minister revealed that the government would open portal for the last phase, February 9.

According to her, the Steering Committee for the Survival Fund would turn in its reports to the Ministry of Finance as well as await the second tranche of the fund.

Rivers State Governor Neysom Wike has urged the National leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to channel his energy to other profitable ventures, stating that the presidency would be out of reach of his party and himself come 2023 general elections.

Wike, who gave Tinubu the advice, yesterday, in Yola, Adamawa State, while on an inspection tour of projects being executed by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, said with the high performance of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and alleged failure of APC government under President Muhammadu Buhari is recording on daily basis, it is clear that Nigerians …