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Humanitarian workers are under threat in sub-Saharan Africa. Can Nigeria be an exception?

On July 18, 20197:41 pmIn Special Reportby Emmanuel Okogba

Mid-year 2019 data on aid worker security incidents shows that 9 humanitarian workers have been killed, 13 kidnapped and 17 wounded in sub-Saharan Africa, according to research based on the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD).1 This toll is a result of 25 incidents that took place across 10 sub-Saharan countries including Nigeria, where two deaths are recorded so far in two separate incidents.

Rising national debt: The danger signals

On July 14, 20198:36 amIn News, Special Reportby Idowu Bankole

Once again, the educated and discerning Nigerians in what had been described by Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna State as “the developing South” of Nigeria are almost alone in raising the alarm regarding rapidly rising debt. This is a national issue that will define the fate of our nation for years to come. With the exception of a few patriotic individuals from what Rufai called “the backward North”, the matter of the national debt rising from N19.16tn in March 2017 to N24.95tn in March 2019, representing an increase of 30.22 per cent in just twenty-four months can only be alarming to the educated and those who can think deeply. It can certainly not be expected to disturb those with low educational qualifications – irrespective of status in society.

When death lurks in Nigeria’s airspace

On July 4, 20193:27 amIn News, Special Reportby adekunle

TRAGEDY was averted recently as 94 passengers and six crew members of a plane operated by Air Peace narrowly escaped death after the aircraft almost crashed in Port Harcourt. The aircraft on flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt reportedly skidded off the runway at Port Harcourt International Airport in Omagwa, Rivers State, on Saturday June 22, 2019.

VACANCY: Legal Adviser

On July 3, 20191:02 pmIn News, Special Reportby adekunle

A human rights non-governmental organization based in Lagos is seeking highly qualified lawyers for the position of Legal Adviser in its Litigation and Legal Advice Unit.

Edo has neither House of Assembly nor Speaker — Idahagbon, ex-Attorney General

On June 30, 20199:52 amIn News, Politics, Special Reportby Idowu Bankole

A former Attorney General of Edo State, Mr Henry Idahagbon, in this interview, says Governor Godwin Obaseki created the conflict in the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress.

Oshiomhole is victim — Ex-Rep Osagie

On June 30, 20198:08 amIn News, Politics, Special Reportby Idowu Bankole

A former Minority Whip in the House of Representatives, Mr Samson Osagie, in this interview, dismisses the assumptions that the crisis rocking Edo State House of Assembly is between the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and Governor Godwin Obaseki, saying the latter’s alleged failure to carry party leaders along is at the root of the impasse. Osagie, an insider, who also describes the recent inauguration of the state House of Assembly as illegality, speaks on other angles to the controversy

Edo APC Raging crisis: Key actors, their roles

On June 30, 20197:34 amIn News, Special Reportby Idowu Bankole

One thing that cannot be denied about the conflict in Edo State House of Assembly is that it is a battle between the supporters of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and Governor Godwin Obaseki.

We were in Edo when Oshiomhole passed budget with 9 lawmakers — Charles Idahosa

On June 30, 20197:08 amIn Special Reportby Idowu Bankole

A chieftain of All Progressives Party, APC, Charles Idahosa, in this interview, accuses the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of masterminding the crisis in Edo State chapter of APC.

‘Fishes gone, no jobs, bandits have turned our homes into hell on earth’

On June 30, 20194:35 amIn Special Reportby Emmanuel Okogba

We are out of fishing business already. How we will get out of the challenge and replenish the rivers to return to the good old days of bumper harvest, only God knows

133 highways of terror: Survivors’ heart-touching tales

On June 30, 20193:01 amIn News, Special Reportby Idowu Bankole

One week after Sunday Vanguard published a story in which investigation revealed that no fewer than One 133 highways across Nigeria are under kidnappers and bandits siege, some victims, in this package, speak on their harrowing experiences on some of the roads. Only last Wednesday, 28 travellers along one of the fingered roads, Ikere Ekiti – Akure road, were abducted by gunmen. This happened four days after the Nigerian Army claimed to have deployed drones in Ekiti and Ondo states to fish out kidnappers terrorising the two states.