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2 May 2024
The 10th anniversary of the abduction of 276 schoolchildren from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, has again brought an eerie feeling of despair and panic. The anniversary is a high point as it has again shown the entire security
2 May 2024
The fact that the Nigerian government was unable to intervene successfully in rescuing dozens of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from Government Secondary, Chibok, in Borno State remains a big shame, 10 years after the gory incident.
29 Apr 2024
Six more Boko Haram fighters have surrendered to troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Monguno, Borno, in the last one week.
28 Apr 2024
The environment is unkempt, while living condition is not encouraging. Facilities in the camp are inadequate and overcrowded.
24 Apr 2024
Fierce rival clashes between Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorist groups escalated in the Lake Chad Basin in the last week, claiming over 100 of the fighters of both groups. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, from April 18 to April 24, 2024,…
24 Apr 2024
Boko Haram fighters ambushed and wounded five Nigerien soldiers who were protecting a key agricultural site near the Nigerian border, local authorities said Wednesday. The site is one of two in Niger's southeastern Diffa region created to boost rice and wheat production and generate more than 12,000 jobs, according to the agriculture ministry. Diffa governor…
19 Apr 2024
Adolphus Onyeama, an agriculture produce buyer resident in Borno State, has had several close shaves with death in the last 14 years. The Enugu State-born businessman has lived in the North for 26 years.
16 Apr 2024
Ten years ago today, 276 girls were abducted in the night from their school in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria.
Edwin Kiagbodo Clark
16 Apr 2024
Elder statesman, Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, yesterday, advised President Bola Tinubu to set up a special military task force to rescue the remaining Chibok schoolgirls and others still in the captivity of Boko Haram insurgents.
14 Apr 2024
Today, April 14, 2024, is the 3639th day of the infamous abduction of Nigerian school girls. In one fell swoop, 276 of them, mostly Christian female, aged between 16 and 18, were kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok
11 Apr 2024
Ten years after enduring raised hopes and dashed promises of seeing their loved ones return, parents of the 91 remaining girls of the 2014 Chibok school abduction in Borno State have written to the wife of the President, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, seeking her intervention.
4 Apr 2024
The glass appears to have overflowed for Nigeria’s out-of-school children, with all thirty-six states and the Federal Capital Territory all featuring prominent on an index of states with out-of-school children.

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The decision by United States President, Donald Trump, to cut international aid funding will affect Nigeria in various ways. One is in the fight against terror groups operating in the country and across the Sahel region of West Africa.
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The National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO) has said it has so far captured more than 68 million poor and vulnerable Nigerians into the National Social Register (NSR).
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While Section 30(1) of Nigeria’s Constitution recognises the death penalty as a form of punishment for heinous crimes, the reluctance by state governors to sign warrants for death row inmates, or commute their sentences, however, questions the propriety of retaining it in the county’s statute books.
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Amid the struggling oil prices, which remained below Nigeria’s budget benchmark of $75 per barrel, the country’s oil production in February dropped further to 1.4 million barrels per day.  
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The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), OrderPaper Nigeria and other key stakeholders in Nigeria’s extractive sector have thrown their weight behind the country’s ongoing tax reform, insisting that it holds significant relevance in bolstering oil, gas and mining industries.
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The statement by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Jumoke Oduwole that 30 foreign trips undertaken by President Bola Tinubu have attracted proposed investments worth $50.8 billion into the country sounds exciting, but it needs to be substantiated.
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In a bid to ensure adherence to the rule of law, the House of Representatives has directed the Nigerian Army to release the investigation report on the unfortunate killing of 17 soldiers on March 14, 2024, in Okuama Community, Ughelli South of Delta state.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alerted Nigerians on the operations of 58 companies posturing as investing entities and defrauding innocent Nigerians of their hard-earned money.
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Founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr Boniface Aniebonam, has censured former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, over the claim that the Federal Government sponsored crises within NNPP, Labour Party (LP) and Peoples People Democratic Party (PDP).
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Thirty-eight startups in Africa raised about $119 million, in February, through debts, equity and grants.