Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday, said over 50 million Nigerians of northern extraction live in poverty.

The British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Laure Beaufils, has assured that his government would support the Federal Government in its efforts to curb the spread of the recent outbreak of monkey pox disease in the country.

Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso’s nephew, Iliyasu Kwankwaso, tops the list of five new nominees sent to Kano State House of Assembly, yesterday, for approval as commissioners.

IT was indeed a glorious day for one of Nigeria’s elder statesmen and foremost diplomat, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, last week when authorities of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, named the proposed university’s Institute of International Studies and Diplomacy after him.

THERE might be fewer ways to get to the root of the feud between Ibe Kachikwu and Maikanti Baru than to question the role of President Muhammadu Buhari in the disagreement between these two of his lieutenants.

Reformed Niger Delta Avengers,  RNDA,  in coalition with nine other militant groups,  yesteday, called on President Muhammad Buhari to immediately scrutinize the financial books of Niger Delta Development Commission,  NDDC, alleging that there was plan by the commission to release funds meant for the development of the  region to individuals and groups  under spurious guise.

THE Federal Government’s decision to harmonise the highly proliferated biometric-based identity systems in the country is long over due. Nigeria lacks a centralised national database unlike other countries. Virtually all Federal agencies and private sector operators have their respective biometric data of citizens.

Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources, Downstream, Hon. Danlami Mohammed Kurfi, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sanitise the oil and gas sector in the light of the current feud between the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru.

THE school Feeding Programme initiated by the Federal Government has impacted positively on school enrolment, attendance and retention across the country, thereby reducing school drop-outs to the barest minimum, a study from the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, NISER, Ibadan has revealed.

Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State and Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris, have called on the Federal Government to revive produce marketing boards nationwide.

At a press conference in Paris, France, recently, world leading satellite operator, SES, launched a flexible satellite system called 03B mPOWER which, it says, would revolutionise broadband access and availability, particularly in developing countries where cost of taking broadband to nooks and crannies can be quite prohibitive, Nigeria happens to be one of such countries.

ABUJA—DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, said, yesterday, if Africa must get it right, it has become imperative for the adoption of what he described as a hybrid of the presidential and parliamentary systems.

Residents and other stakeholders in Apapa Local Government area of Lagos State have stressed the need for both the Federal and State Governments to earmark special funds in the 2018 budget for the upgrading and restoration of deplorable road infrastructure, as well as finding permanent solution to perennial traffic gridlock in the axis.

The Nigerian Army has said that it scuttled an attempt by Fulani herdsmen to attack Ukpata in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, just as it had made some harvests of criminals and their ammunition since the beginning of Operation Python Dance Exercise II (Egwu Eke II), in the South-East zone on September 15. 

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