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The Executive Secretary of Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) who is also the Head of Mission (HoM) Ambassador Mamman Nuhu has pledged continuous support to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF).  He made the pledge on Tuesday 2 May 2023 when the newly appointed Force Commander (FC) MNJTF Maj Gen...

… parties assure on win-win deal  The Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Government of the Federal Republic of Indonesia have signed letter of intent to deepen bilateral defence cooperation. The brief signing ceremony held at the Ministry of Defence Headquarters, Ship House Abuja.     The Permanent...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday, launched the Nigeria Agenda 2050; a plan aimed at increasing real GDP growth by seven per cent, creating 165 million new jobs, and reducing the number of Nigerians living in poverty to 2.1 million in 2050, from the 83 million estimated...

Autopsy result shared on Tuesday revealed that Cash App founder Bob Lee, who was stabbed to death in San Francisco in April, ingested alcohol, cocaine, and ketamine before he was killed. According to Bloomberg, the 43-year-old tech executive also had a compound that forms when alcohol and cocaine mix, called...

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart for London, United Kingdom later today, Wednesday, May 3 to join other world leaders invited to attend the coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort of the United Kingdom, respectively. The coronation will...

By Pwanagba Agabus, Jos In a bid to continue its advocacy drive on social justice and social stability, a group under the aegis of Africa Faith and Justice Network, (AFJN), in partnership with the Youth wings of Christian Association of Nigeria, (YOWICAN), and Jama’atu Nasri Islam, (JNI) have organized a...

Following the ethnic profiling and violence that characterised the just general elections, some South East leaders under the auspice of Anya Ndigbo, yesterday, declared that Igbo people are not at war with Yoruba people in Lagos just as they expressed worry that Igbo people now live in fear in the...

A yet-to-be-identified couple have welcomed their twin children, a girl and a boy, after 32 years of childlessness. A photographer, Zibah Photography, who snapped the couple and their children, shared the news via her Facebook account. She wrote, “ What God cannot do does not exist. God Bless this beautiful...

Amb. Benaoyagha Okoyen, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Cuba poses in the middle of the front row with course 31st participants of the Nigerian Defence College after a reception  dinner organised in their honour in Havana, Cuba. Nigeria’s Ambassador to Cuba, Benaoyagha Okoyen has hosted a dinner reception in honour of the course...

One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, to Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia caught fire in the early hours of Monday. Twenty-six buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12:am on Monday for Port Sudan. “One of the buses...