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KNSG inaugurates committee on crisis in Yoruba community
The Kano State Government has inaugurated a Reconciliation Committee to resolve the prevailing crisis in the Yoruba community in the state. Dr Abdullahi Bichi, the Secretary to the State Government, inaugurated the committee on Thursday on behalf of Gov. Abba Yusuf. “To resolve this conflict between the Oba’s group and Aare group, we have carefully selected you as each one…
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Residents alert Aiyedatiwa to looming obaship crisis in Ondo community
Crisis appears to be looming in Etikan kingdom in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State over a purported plan to install a new traditional ruler in Ereke community in allegedly against a court order. The Akinrogun and Aare of Etikan, Chief Monday Oyetakin and High Chief Bode Ojabogun respectively raised the alarm in a statement jointly signed on behalf…
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Coalition says Rivers indigenes in FG responsible for political crisis
The Coalition of Rivers State Leaders of Thought has blamed the lingering political crisis in the South-South state on indigenes appointed into Federal Government positions. Chief Sunnie Chukwumela, who spoke on behalf of the leaders at a press briefing in Port Harcourt, said that people on President Bola Tinubu’s appointment were collaborating with former lawmakers to attack Gov. Siminalayi Fubara’s administration. He…
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Guild urges Lagos Govt to avert health sector crisis
Doctors under the aegis of the Medical Guild have appealed to the Lagos State Government to avert avoidable crises in the state’s health sector through prompt implementation of incentives for workers in the state. Dr Moruf Abdulsalam, Chairman, Medical Guild, made the appeal in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Medical…
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Group wants end to Rivers crisis in interest of democracy
A civil society organisation, Citizens Action for Good Governance, has called on parties involved in the Rivers crisis to sheath their swords and allow peace to reign in the interest of democracy. The Convener of the group, Mr Murtala Gamji, made the call in Abuja on Wednesday at a news conference titled “Addressing the Meddlesomeness of the G-60 Opposition Group…
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How to end Rivers political crisis– Okupe
A Former Presidential Spokesperson, Dr Doyin Okupe,has described the leadership crisis in Rivers as a “total misfortune”, saying the problem requires a political solution. Okupe, a former Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. NAN reports that Rivers has been engulfed in…
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Council urges NWC to address crisis rocking PDP Katsina State chapter
The Katsina State Peoples Democratic Party Advisory Council has called for the intervention of the party National Working Committee (NWC) in addressing crisis rocking the state chapter of the party. Mr Ibrahim Tafashiya, member, Katsina State PDP Caretaker Committee, made the appeal at a news conference on the affairs of the party in the state, on Wednesday in Abuja. Tafashiya…
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Sallah: Crisis Looms In Kano As Dethroned Emir Bayero Plans Durbar
The dethroned Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, has extended an invitation to all district heads in Kano Emirate to participate in the annual traditional durbar event in celebration of Eid-el-Kabir festival. QUICKNEWSAFRICA reports that Bayero’s plan to host the durbar comes amid his dethronement by the Kano State Government and the attendant legal tussle over the Kano Emirship. The…
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AfDB Allocates $74 Million to Sudan Amidst Crisis
CAIRO – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $74 million in funding for the Sudan Emergency Wheat Production project, signaling a crucial step in addressing food security challenges amid the country’s ongoing civil conflict. Implemented by the World Food Program, the initiative aims to bolster food security and ramp up wheat production in Sudan, a region grappling with the…
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Wade into Rivers political crisis, Bode George urges PDP elders, Tinubu
Chief Olabode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday appealed to the party’s elders and stakeholders to intervene in the political crisis rocking Rivers. George, a PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) member, who made the appeal in a statement in Lagos, said intervention of PDP elders was imperative to stop the crisis from…
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Politics
Uzodimma sends warning to politicians sponsoring crisis in Imo
Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has warned politicians who are involved in the crisis and bloodletting business in the state “to repent and refrain forthwith or be ready to face the wrath of God.” The Governor who gave the warning on Tuesday when he paid a condolence visit to the Police Command in Imo State to commiserate the leadership…
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Features
COVID-19 and the global harvest of bankruptcies
Jubal Kanayo takes a global look at the speed at which the novel Corona Virus is laying waste to corporations, firms and economies and attempts to look at the situation back home and where this leaves us. No one can deny that the Corona Virus, popularly called COVID-19, has laid waste to a number of businesses and economies on a…
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NEWS
‘Cameroonian crisis is world’s most neglected’
Cameroon’s conflict with English-speaking separatists has been rated as the most-neglected crisis in the world for the second year running by the Norwegian Refugee Council. The African nation’s Anglophone minority are fighting for autonomy after what they term as decades of marginalisation by the central government and the French-speaking majority. Some of the separatists have declared autonomy over two regions…
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Nigeria
Nigeria: WFP in need of $182m for ‘aid’
The World Food Programme (WFP) says over $182million (N68billion) is needed to “sustain lifesaving aid” to Nigeria over the next six months. WFP’s senior spokesperson, Ms Elisabeth Byrs, stated this on Tuesday, according to a report by the United Nations. The report said “help and funding are needed urgently for millions of people hit severely by the effects of the…
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