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Chuks Ibegbu, a former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and the Board of Trustee Chairman of World Igbo Peoples Assembly, (WIPAS) has asked all Igbos all over Nigeria to protect themselves with whatever means and instrument at their disposal. Ibegbu stated this in view of the herders and farmers clashes in some states of the South East zone during an interview with DAILY POST on Thursday, noting that Ndigbo cannot allow themselves to be slaughtered in their own land again. The Ohanaeze chieftain called on all children, men and women to be security…

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The Commission of Police in charge of the FCT, CP Bala Ciroma, has assured residents of a hitch-free Easter celebration. Ciroma gave the assurance in a press statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the command, ASP Mariam Yusuf, Thursday in Abuja. It read in part, “In furtherance with effort to ensure that residents of the Federal Capital Territory enjoy a hitch-free Easter Celebration, the FCT Police Command has deployed proactive measures within the city especially at strategic places such as recreational parks/centres, worship centres and major highways etc. “In view of the above, the Commissioner of Police,…

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Nigerian Governors have disclosed that those behind insurgency in the Northeast have been identified as sponsors of the escalating banditry in the Northwest and kidnappings in other regions of the country. Governor of Ekiti State and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday. Fayemi, said he was in the State House to discuss a range of issues, including economic and security with the President. “There is a direct correlation,  I’ve said this to you before, between insurgency in…

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Despite housing a division of the Nigerian police and a naval barracks, kidnap-for-ransom is rife in Pegi. Shittu Adebayo narrowly escaped a kidnap attempt in February. The 40-year-old signage writer was returning from work around 8 p.m. when his car came under gunfire less than 200 metres to his house. The house is in an estate in Pegi, a community in Kuje area council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Mr Adebayo abandoned his car and fled into the bush, keeping to a footpath that led to the fence of the estate. “They eventually turned back when they saw that…

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The presidency has announced that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to the United Kingdom on Tuesday for medical check-up. Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s media aide in a statement on Monday said the Nigerian leader “will meet with Security Chiefs first in the morning, after which he embarks on the journey”. “He is due back in the country during the second week of April, 2021.” In the six year of the Nigerian leader’s stay in office, Mr Buhari has spent over 150 days in the UK where he sought medical care.

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Nigerians on social media have expressed divergent opinions on President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to London for “routine medical checkup.” DAILY POST reported yesterday that the President is billed to depart Nigeria on Tuesday (today) for the United Kingdom for a medical check-up. This news did not go down with many Nigerians, who described the trip as the highlight of the failure of the Buhari administration. Here are some of the comments by Nigerians on Twitter: @Yelesowore, “Pres. Muhammadu Buhari proceeds to London, the United Kingdom, Tuesday March 30, 2021, for a routine medical check-up. After more than 6yrs in office, failed @MBuhari…

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Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero will leave the club at the end of the season when his contract expires. A City statement read: “Manchester City will bid a fond and emotional farewell to legendary striker Sergio Aguero when his contract expires this summer. “Treasured by City fans and a global icon of the game, Aguero is one of the most decorated and respected footballers to wear the sky-blue shirt. “He joined City in the summer of 2011, making an immediate impact by scoring twice and creating an assist on his thirty-minute cameo debut in a 4-0 home win over Swansea…

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The Senior Advocate of Nigeria accused the government of being economical with the truth on subsidy removal. Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has raised an alarm over alleged plans by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to sell a litre of fuel at N500 before the end of the year. Falana spoke at the weekend in Abuja during a two-day conference of the People’s Alternative Political Parties Summit titled, “A New Nigeria Is Possible”. The legal practitioner, who delivered the keynote address at the summit, highlighted the President’s past comparison of the prices of fuel in Nigeria and neighbouring countries. The…

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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday led dignitaries, including President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and his Ogun State counterpart, Prince Dapo Abiodun, to shower encomia on one of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, on occasion of his 69th birthday today. The president, in a message by his media adviser, Mr. Femi Adesina, joined the ruling APC and its teeming members in congratulating Tinubu on his 69th birthday, describing him as not only a…

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dispelled ‘misleading’ information and misconceptions surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine, which had created hesitancy and rejection of the vaccine by the populace. At a two-day workshop organised by WHO in Yola, Adamawa State capital, for North-east journalists, WHO experts reiterated that the vaccine is safe, and that the benefits of taking the vaccine outweigh it side effects. WHO, Public Health Officer, Dr. Jerry Pantuvo, one of the facilitators at the workshop, said it is true that there are minor side effects after taking the vaccine such as fever, cold, headache among others, but they go…

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