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Portugal Signs Deal to Train Mozambique Forces in Jihadist Fight
Portugal and Mozambique have signed a new military agreement that will see troops of the southern African country trained to confront a growing Islamist insurgency in the north of the
Nigeria: Opposition PDP Says ‘Bandits Invasion of Presidential Villa Shows Buhari Can’t Secure Country’
Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says the invasion of Aso Presidential Villa, Nigeria’s seat of power, by bandits and armed robbers “further point to the collapse of the country’s security command structure under
Egypt’s Suez Canal to Be Deepened, Expanded After Blockage
The Suez Canal Authority says there are plans to expand and deepen the southern stretch of the waterway where the container ship Ever Given got stuck in March, Chairman Osama
Nigeria: We Succeeded Where Present Government Failed, Former Health Insurance Boss Yusuf Says
Usman Yusuf, a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme says the team that ensured the release of the 27 abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna State succeeded
INSECURITY: APC tasks South-South govs to convene stakeholders’ meeting
By Davies Iheamnachor, Port-Harcourt The All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged the governor of the South-South states to urgently convene a meeting of stakeholders of the region to address growing
Nigeria to Develop World-class Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facilities, NSIA Chief Uche Orji Says
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the growth of investments in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector, according to the Managing Director and CEO of Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority. Uche Orji says it
Gbagi tasks ‘Okada’ riders on support for Gov Okowa
Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi By Festus Ahon, ASABA FORMER Minister of State Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi has tasked members of the National Association of ‘Okada’ Union, on the need to always
‘In the absence of social justice, DSS can’t intimidate Nigerians into forced patriotism’
The African Action Congress, AAC, has stated that the Department of State Services, DSS, should now and cannot intimidate Nigerians into “forced patriotism” in a society where social justice is
APC, PDP bicker over killings of policemen in Akwa Ibom
By Harris Emanuel, Uyo The ruling People’s Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress, have traded over words of the worsening security situation in Akwa Ibom State. In the last couple
American rapper J Cole to play pro-baskeball in Rwanda
Platinum-selling American rapper J Cole is set to play professional basketball with Rwanda side Patriots BBC in the new Basketball Africa League. The Grammy-winning rapper, whose real name is Jermaine
