A middle-aged man, identified simply as Ezekiel, was electrocuted while trying to steal a high-tension wire in the Utako area of the Federal Capital Territory. The incident occurred on Saturday night. A commercial driver, who asked to be identified only as Hassan, told our correspondent on Sunday that Ezekiel sustained severe burns from the incident. […]
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ECOWAS Parliament has appealed to Nigeria to put measures in place to address the issue that surround insurgency in the Northeast. Mr Ibrahim Sadiq, Chairman, ECOWAS Parliament delegation to Northeast Nigeria, made the appeal when he presented the report on the fact finding mission to the region. At the plenary on Friday in Abuja, he […]
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Ethiopia, on Tuesday said that about 7.88 million of its citizens are in need of emergency food aid and that climate change has been a special challenge for the country’s food security. “Ethiopia’s geographical location and its diverse agro-ecology makes it vulnerable to climate-induced disaster mainly to drought and floods,’’ said Mitiku Kassa, Commissioner of […]
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The UN says violence, displacement and hunger will drive record humanitarian needs in 2018, with nearly 136 million people worldwide in need of aid. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said protracted conflicts in Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen, the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar and natural disasters exacerbated […]
Continue ReadingFamine-like conditions in the former stronghold of Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria could kill 75,000 children over the next year if they do not receive aid, the United Nations children’s agency said on Thursday.Some 15,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced during a seven-year insurgency by the Islamist militant group […]
Continue ReadingSenator representing Kaduna-Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has warned the Federal Government to put in place short-term measures to cushion the effect of the current economic crisis on the Nigerian masses or watch the people perish before the promised reforms are completed. Mr. Shehu Sani was particularly critical of the fact that President Muhammadu Buhari does […]
Continue ReadingThe caretaker committee chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmed Makarfi, says rather than play politics, all hands must be on deck to salvage the economy. Makarfi spoke with journalists in Kaduna on Thursday and explained that if the economy was bad it was the political class that would be blamed as a whole. He […]
Continue ReadingThe Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, through its spokesman, Selechang Taupyen on Thursday disclosed that rice smugglers have devised a method to beat security checks.According to Taupyen, the latest tactic of smugglers is to wrap bags of rice as corpses and load them in hearses. He said 11 bags of imported rice, wrapped as a […]
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