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General News
FG stresses ‘strategic commitment’ to complete value chain of vaccine production
Dr. Abdul Mukhtar, National Coordinator of the Presidential Unlocking Healthcare Value-Chain Initiative, has emphasised Nigeria’s strategic commitment to the complete value chain of vaccine production. He said such would position the nation to emerge as a key player in West Africa’s vaccine manufacturing sector. Mukhtar expressed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna State. It…
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Metro
Nigeria opens land, air borders with Niger Republic
President Bola Tinubu has directed the opening of Nigeria’s land and air borders with the Republic of Niger and the lifting of other sanctions against that country with immediate effect. This directive complies with the decisions of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government at its extraordinary summit on Feb. 24 in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria…
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Africa
How safe is West Africa without President Déby?
Chadian President, Marshal Idriss Déby Itno was born on the 18th of June 1952 and died on 20th April 2021. He was a Chadian politician and military officer who was President of Chad from 1990 until his death in 2021. He was also head of the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement. Déby was of the Bidyat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic…
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Africa
Chadian president killed by rebels
Chad’s President Idriss Deby, who got recently re-elected for his sixth term, got injured during clashes with rebels and died in a hospital, a source familiar with a matter told Sputnik on Tuesday. The AFP reported earlier in the day that Deby, who commanded an army unit during hostilities against the rebels in Chad’s north, died. The military spokesman, Azem…
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Africa
Counter terrorism: Nigeria, Chad, Niger to set up Joint Operations Headquarters
A multilateral meeting of Nigerian, Chadian and Nigerien military delegation on counter terrorism has resolved to establish and activate a Joint Operations Headquarters immediately, pending any other structure being put in place at regional and international organisations level with regards to the counter terrorism efforts. The three countries actively involved in the ongoing operations – Nigeria, Chad and Niger –…
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Africa
Boko Haram: Military dismisses allegiance to IS, launches offensive
Forces from Niger and Chad have launched a ground and air offensive against militant group Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria, officials say. The campaign is said to be targeting militants in Borno state. It came as Nigerian officials dismissed Boko Haram’s pledge of allegiance to Islamic State as a reaction to military pressure from Nigeria and its allies. The pledge…
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News
Army destroy 6 Boko Haram camps in Sambisa Forest
As a result of its renewed resolve to flush out the cancerous Boko Haram epidemic prior to the March 38 and April 11 general elections, the military has recorded a huge success in its sweeping operation at the Sambisa Forest Headquarter of Boko Haram, having among other things destroyed their buffer camps. Special Forces of the Nigerian military backed by…
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Africa
Boko Haram: Cameroon and Chad provide ammunitions, arms and cash to insurgents
SaharaReporters has learned that the Cameroonian authorities paid Boko Haram insurgents at least $400,000 in ransom in order to secure the release of Francoise Agnes Moukouri, wife of Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali. Boko Haram insurgents had abducted Mrs. Ali in July from the town of Kolofata. The insurgents also seized the town’s district head. The deal to secure their…
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