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Bandits have shot dead a bus driver and kidnapped eight occupants between Luma and Babanna in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. Residents said the incident happened last Saturday. They told Daily Trust that the kidnappers were demanding N17 million as ransom to release the victims. The victims were said to be on their way for the installation of the chairman of kingmakers and chief priest of Bakarabonde in Borgu Kingdom. It was gathered that the bus was set ablaze by the attackers. The Chairman of the Borgu LGA, Alhaji Sulaiman Yerima, who confirmed the incident, described it as…

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The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has expressed grief over the death of dozens of persons caused by the drone airstrike in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State by the Nigerian Army. In a series of tweet on his X handle on Tuesday, the former Anambra State Governor stated that the Nigerian military must exercise utmost caution and professionalism to avoid reoccurrence. He wrote, “I read with sadness, the devastating reports of the accidental bombing of Tudun Biri Village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, by a Nigerian Army craft that mistook the villagers…

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Military Regrets ‘Miscalculated Bombardment’ which Killed Kaduna Civilians By Kabir Abdulsalam The Nigerian military has described the deaths of civilians in an airstrike on Ligarma village in Kaduna state as “needless and unwanted.” The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, said in a statement on Tuesday that the military’s UAV detachment observed the movement of terrorists at Ligarma, a terrorist-infested area in Kaduna State. He said the aerial surveillance captured movement of groups of persons synonymous with the terrorist tactics and modus operandi. “Accordingly, the threat was eliminated to prevent the terrorists from unleashing terror on innocent…

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The Federal Government has noted with interest the public conversation on the number of delegates from Nigeria attending the ongoing Climate Summit in Dubai, otherwise called COP-28, and the need to provide clarity in line with a standing pledge to conduct itself with transparency and accessibility regarding public information. The Convention of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the world’s pre-eminent Climate Change Conference, attended this year (COP-28) by more than 70,000 participants and delegates from over 100 countries. Nigeria’s representation is very much in line with our status as Africa’s leading Sovereign…

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The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Dr. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has urged Nigerian nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom to give back to their motherland. According to a statement posted on the official X handle of the commission on Monday, Dabiri-Erewa stated this at an event by the Nigerian Nurses Charitable Association, United Kingdom, where she was the special guest. The statement read, “At the event, themed ‘Leading the Future Influencing Global Health,’ she called for a structured MOU on migration of health workers between the governments of Nigeria and the United Kingdom. “Speaking at the event,  the NiDCOM…

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Many villagers are feared dead following a bomb allegedly dropped by a Nigerian Air Force jet during a Maulud celebration at Tudun Biri, a community within Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Though details of the incident remain sketchy, preliminary reports indicate that about 30 people died during the incident on Sunday, around 9:00 pm. Residents told Daily Trust that the bomb struck while the villagers gathered to commemorate Maulud in the village. “They were celebrating Maulud (birth of Prophet Muhammad) when the jet dropped the bomb, resulting in the immediate death of more than 30 people,” a resident…

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