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By our reporter Residents, motorists and others located between Kompanin Bobby and Wamba in Mariga Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State fled for dear life yesterday following reports of the sighting of scores of suspected insurgents heading towards the axis. Sources said hundreds of heavily armed insurgents, traveling on motorcycles, reportedly from Zamfara State, were spotted crossing the Kontagora–Minna highway between both communities. It was gathered that a local security team comprising mainly of vigilantes, mobilized to challenge and halt the advance of the stern-faced, no nonsense-looking insurgents, was worsted in an ensuing battle, with two killed and one…

By Ademola Adegoke, Abuja There has been a frenzy of activities all day in District Hospitals owned by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) as relations of patients on admission within the facilities have been evacuating their sick loved ones to private hospitals or back home. This followed information that resident doctors in the nation's capital will tomorrow kick off a three-day warning strike to protest against the dismissal of about 127 health workers by FCTA authorities last Friday. Three Managing Directors of District Hospitals, medical doctors, nurses,pharmacists, lab scientists and clinical staff were among those sacked. Ironically, the same…

The European Union (EU) is expected to lure U.S researchers looking to relocate in the wake of Trump’s attacks on universities. French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are hosting a conference in Paris to attract United States (U.S)-based academics and researchers in the wake of U.S President Donald Trump’s targeting of universities. EU commissioners on Monday, May 5, announced half a billion euros ($568million) in incentives to lure international academics to the continent at the Choose Europe for Science conference. The meeting at Paris’s Sorbonne University is targeted at academics and researchers who fear…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has disclosed a plan to resettle 6,000 families in the state displaced by Boko Haram insurgents. The families mostly hailed from Dikwa and Mafa Local Government Areas (LGAs). Zulum announced the plan on Monday, May 5, at Muna Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, one of the largest with about 11,000 families taking refuge there due to the over a decade-old crisis in the North-East Nigerian state. Addressing journalists, Zulum reiterated that the resettlement became imperative due to the high-level of illicit activities in the camp, according to a statement released by…

Recently-resigned Political Adviser to President Bola Tinubu in the Office of the Vice President, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has thumbed down the idea of President Tinubu gunning for eight years in office. By the 1999 Constitution (as amended), a sitting president stays in office for four years in the first term, but can run for re-election for another four years. Indeed, Baba-Ahmed claimed that the practice of bidding to be in office for eight years was not in the national interest as such sitting president may have health- or age-related issues and could invariably lack the energy and zest to perform to…