At least 40 people, including students, were killed and 48 others injured after Israeli strikes targeted a girls’ primary school in the city of Minab in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kano State Command has reaffirmed commitment to strengthening inter-agency collaboration with National Agency
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FG sensitise farmers, stakeholders on safety of GMO seeds
Alhaji Bello Bawa, Director-General of NBMA, made this known during an engagement with farmers and traditional rulers in Minna on Saturday.
The Nigeria Customs Service has formally handed over five live pangolins to the Green Fingers Wildlife Foundation for rehabilitation and eventual release back into their natural habitat.
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President Bola Tinubu has reappointed Dr Ahmed Audi as the Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for a new five-year term.
The reappointment took effect from Feb. 27.
This is contained in a statement issued by Presidential spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, on Saturday in Abuja.
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, admitted a video evidence tendered by the defence witness which allegedly indicted the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), as exhibit in the trial of suspended DCP Abba Kyari.
Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, overruled the NDLEA’s objection and marked the video recordings as “Exhibit D-3.”
The video contains the confessional statements of the two drug traffickers, Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne, convicted by Justice Nwite on June 14, 2022, after they pleaded guilty to the counts preferred against them by the NDLEA.
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Professor Kailani Muhammad has cautioned against foreign political and military interference in Nigeria, warning that external pressure on religious matters could undermine unity and peaceful coexistence.
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Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa has announced his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to strengthen development efforts and reposition the state in national politics.
Fintiri disclosed this at a news conference on Friday in Yola.
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Joint troops under Operation UDO KA have overrun the suspected Eastern Security Network (ESN)/IPOB supreme headquarters in Mother Valley in
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The Coalition of Southern Kaduna Progressive Minds has distanced itself from a protest in Kafanchan on Tuesday by a group claiming solidarity with the embattled former governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai.
A statement signed by Jehu Dogo and Najib Mohammed, chairman and secretary of the coalition, respectively, said those who organised the rally did not represent the people of Southern Kaduna.
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