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Feb
07
2025
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None Of 30 Proposals For New States Met Constitutional Provisions, March 5 Is Deadline -Deputy Speaker

None Of 30 Proposals For New States Met Constitutional Provisions, March 5 Is Deadline -Deputy Speaker

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By Felix Durumbah Agitators for creation of additional states in Nigeria have more home work to do. This is because their proposals for 30 new states have not met the required constitutional provisions. These much were disclosed by Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Ben Kalu, on Friday, February 7, in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. In a statement issued by his media office, the Deputy Speaker said the 30 proposals fell far short of Section 8 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended),which deals with State and Local Government (LG) creation, boundary adjustment and similar matters. Contrary to media reports (not…
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Feb
07
2025
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Abia Govt, Landowners Raise Joint Technical Committee To Resolve Concerns Over Proposed Airport Project

Abia Govt, Landowners Raise Joint Technical Committee To Resolve Concerns Over Proposed Airport Project

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By Okwudiri Okafor, Umuahia Abia State government and land owners housing the proposed Abia airport project have agreed on certain previously contentious areas in a bid to get the project off the ground. Consequently, they have inaugurated a joint technical committee to make further progress on the project. This followed a crucial meeting between the government and community leaders, village and compound heads of land owners as well as the technical team of the Nsulu Airport Land Owners Forum, held on Thursday at Government House, Umuahia, the capital of the South-East Nigerian state. In a communique signed by Chief of…
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Feb
07
2025
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CAPPA Tasks FG, States To Prioritize Healthy Food Policies To Fight Cancer

CAPPA Tasks FG, States To Prioritize Healthy Food Policies To Fight Cancer

Health
By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu A group, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has tasked both federal and state governments in Nigeria to develop and implement comprehensive healthy food policies targeted at reducing the exposure of Nigerians to certain foods. It listed these as ultra-processed foods, tobacco, excessive sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and salt consumption, saying these constitute high-risk factors driving the country’s alarming cancer burden and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). CAPPA noted that cancer has remained a major public health issue in Nigeria, with an increasing number of new cases and deaths. It said Nigeria records over 120,000 new cases…
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Feb
07
2025
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Blackout: Kaduna Govt Intervenes As Homes, Businesses Suffer Over Kaduna Electric, Workers’ Standoff

Blackout: Kaduna Govt Intervenes As Homes, Businesses Suffer Over Kaduna Electric, Workers’ Standoff

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By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Kaduna State Government has intervened in the ongoing industrial dispute between electricity distribution firm, Kaduna Electric, and its workers’ union, which resulted in outage in all its franchise states for five days. The state's Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, who hosted the meeting at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House on Thursday, pleaded with the union to restore electricity to consumers as soon as possible because the outage has impacted negatively across all sectors. Dr Balarabe implored the management and the union to find a common ground to ensure the resolution of their differences, as the lack of…
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Feb
07
2025
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How German Govt Is Dehumanising Nigerian Migrants -CSOs

How German Govt Is Dehumanising Nigerian Migrants -CSOs

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By Prosper Okoye Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have raised the alarm over alleged human rights violations against Nigerian migrants being deported from Germany. During a press briefing in Abuja,the Nigerian capital, on Thursday, February 6, the groups, including the Civil Society Network on Migration and Development (CSOnetMADE) and the Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse, and Labour (NACTAL), called for urgent government action to address flaws in the deportation and reintegration processes. Recounting a recent incident, National Coordinator of CSOnetMADE, Dr Emeka Obiezu, lamented the inhumane treatment of a Nigerian deportee, Bright Obasuyi. He recounted: "On 22 January 2025, a plane…
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Feb
07
2025
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After 42 Years, FG Scraps 6-3-3-4, Replaces It With 12-4 Education Model

After 42 Years, FG Scraps 6-3-3-4, Replaces It With 12-4 Education Model

Education
By our reporter Forty-two years after introduction of the 6-3-3-4 education model, the Federal Government (FG) has consigned it to history. 6-3-3-4 birthed the Junior Secondary School (JSS) and Senior Secondary School (SSS) models in the country, with students undergoing three years in each stage before moving on to higher education. To replace it, FG on Thursday, February 6, 2025, introduced a compulsory 12-year uninterrupted basic education model. Now, it is after this that a Nigerian child can aspire to higher education,in a model henceforth to be known as the 12-4 model. The 6-3-3-4 was introduced in Nigeria in 1983,though…
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Feb
06
2025
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Decomposing Body Of Missing Anambra Lawmaker, Azuka, Recovered On Second Niger Bridge

Decomposing Body Of Missing Anambra Lawmaker, Azuka, Recovered On Second Niger Bridge

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Shock -and some relief -enveloped Anambra State on Thursday, February 6, when the fate of missing member of Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon. Justice Azuka, finally came to light. His decomposing body was recovered on Wednesday night, February 5. The body was recovered by a combined security team at the Second Niger Bridge,Onitsha, the Anambra commercial nerve centre. The lawmaker, who represented Onitsha 1 North constituency, had been declared missing since Tuesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve), 2024, when unidentified gunmen kidnapped him as he returned home on Ugwunaobankpa Road, Inland Town, Onitsha. Elected on the platform of Labour Party…
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Feb
05
2025
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Wike, George, Former G-5 Govs, Senators, Nwuche, Others Pay Condolence Visit To Makinde

Wike, George, Former G-5 Govs, Senators, Nwuche, Others Pay Condolence Visit To Makinde

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By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, February 5, led a strong delegation to condole with Governor 'Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, South-Western Nigeria, who lost his elder brother recently. The delegation comprised two former governors in the former G-5 Governors' Forum, Senators and a former Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives. Wike, who arrived Makinde's Ikolaba, Ibadan residence in company with the former governors of Abia and Benue states, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu and Samuel Ortom, commiserated with the governor, stating that "whatever affects him also affects the G-5 Governors." The delegation…
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Feb
05
2025
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Terror: Kaduna Bleeds Again Despite Govt’s Assurances As Pastor, 3 Others Killed, 12 Women, Children Abducted In Lere

Terror: Kaduna Bleeds Again Despite Govt’s Assurances As Pastor, 3 Others Killed, 12 Women, Children Abducted In Lere

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By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Worrying developments seem to have,once again, cropped up in Kaduna State,which has witnessed rare calm in about one-and-a half years now, as fresh violence was unleashed in the key North-Western State on Wednesday, February 5. During the incident, a deadly attack was launched by bandits on Majagada community, Lere Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, leaving in its wake deaths, injuries and abductions. In January,2025, the State government, through the Senior Special Assistant to the State Governor on Public Affairs, Victor Bobai, issued a statement where it accused Gov. Uba Sani's "political adversaries" of recruiting…
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Feb
05
2025
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Tinubu: Ribadu, Female Celebrity Feud Over Alleged Defamation,Activist Insists On Her Statement

Tinubu: Ribadu, Female Celebrity Feud Over Alleged Defamation,Activist Insists On Her Statement

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By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu has fired a letter to politician and leader of Northern Star, Hajia Naja’atu Muhammad, demanding public apology and retraction over an alleged malicious statement in a TikTok video shared across social media platforms. Popularly known to her followers simply as Naja'atu, in the TikTok video she allegedly accused the NSA of serving in President Bola Tinubu’s government, a man he allegedly castigated when he (Ribadu) was Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a letter, through his lawyer, Dr Ahmed Raji SAN, the NSA said he has never…
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