The United Nations has decried the deepening humanitarian impact of terrorism in West Africa and the Sahel, revealing that 1,364 children were recruited by armed groups in 2024, while more than 14,000 schools were shut due to insecurity. UN Under Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Leonardo Simão,
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A group of discharged Nigerian soldiers on Thursday resumed protests in Abuja, demanding the payment of their entitlements. The ex-soldiers called off their protest on August 4, after a meeting with officials of the Ministries of Defence and Finance, who assured them that their outstanding entitlements would be paid by August 10. The ex-servicemen, who
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The Northern Elders Forum has urged President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in northern Nigeria, citing the worsening scale of insecurity and the government’s constitutional and international obligation to protect lives. In a communiqué signed by its spokesperson, Prof. Abubakar Jiddere, on Wednesday, the forum demanded, “a state of emergency in northern
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ABUJA — Stakeholders have called for Nigeria to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool to tackle poverty, in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1, which seeks to end poverty in all its forms everywhere. The call was made in Abuja on Wednesday at the 4th Gilbert Onyemaelu Leadership and Diversity
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At least 32 people have died in Nigeria’s northern Niger state after a boat sank in a river, an official has told the BBC. The reportedly overloaded boat, said to have been carrying about 100 passengers including women and children, capsized when it struck a submerged tree stump on the River Niger in the Borgu
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The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice-Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), has sworn in the 23 newly elected local government chairmen in the state. The chairmen, who were elected during last Saturday’s council election in the state, were presented with certificates of returns by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) on Monday afternoon. Speaking during
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