Civil War: Nigerian soldiers to protest over 40-year unpaid pensions

NewsNigeriaCivil War: Nigerian soldiers to protest over 40-year unpaid pensions

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 19, 2023

Retired soldiers who fought on the side of the Nigerian government during the brutal civil war which ended exactly 53 years ago will take to the streets from 15 January 2024 in protest over their unpaid allowances. The military pensioners accuse successive governments of neglecting them despite a series of letters sent to the authorities while their co-combatants who fought on the Biafran side never miss a pay. The war veterans are now giving the...

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Police kill two, arrest four members of Otukpo bank robbery syndicate

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaPolice kill two, arrest four members of Otukpo bank robbery syndicate

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 19, 2023

The Nigerian police announced on Monday that four of the gang of robbers behind the recent chilling bank robbery in Otukpo, Benue State, have been arrested. Otukpo witnessed a deadly attack on 20 October when a gang of 12 to 20 heavily armed gunmen stormed branches of Access Bank, United Bank of Africa, Stanbic IBTC Bank, and Zenith Bank located in the commercial district of the town and stole millions from the banks’ vaults. Before...

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Nigerian Air Force bombs ISWAP training camp in Borno

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNigerian Air Force bombs ISWAP training camp in Borno

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 19, 2023

Troops of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, codenamed “Operation Hadin Kai” have bombed the training camp of the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, in Lake Chad, killing scores of jihadists. According to a Chad Basin security and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, the air interdiction operation was on 16 December at Bukar Mairam in Marte LGA of Borno State. The operation followed intelligence reports that the terrorists had established a training camp in the...

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Tinubu vows to better Nigeria’s business environment as more foreign companies plan exit

BusinessNewsNigeriaPoliticsTinubu vows to better Nigeria’s business environment as more foreign companies plan exit

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 19, 2023

President Bola Tinubu has remained unrelenting in his efforts to attract huge foreign investments to Nigeria as he promises to improve the investment climate in the country. “We are committed to removing all cobwebs and anti-investment impediments in the oil and gas industry,” said the President on Monday when he hosted the group chairman and CEO of Total Energies Worldwide, Patrick Pouyanne. Nigeria is witnessing an economic depression caused by Tinubu’s economic policies that has...

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Nigerian Army rescues 13 kidnapped victims in Zamfara

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNigerian Army rescues 13 kidnapped victims in Zamfara

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 19, 2023

…11 terrorist-agents also arrested A crackdown on a gang of bandits operating around the Dansadau axis in Maru LGA of Zamfara State by troops of the Nigerian Army dubbed “Operation Hadarin Daji” on December 17 led to the successful rescue of 13 abducted victims. The terrorists fled on sighting the troops approaching, abandoning their hostages. All rescued victims are indigenes of Mutunji village of Dansadau Emirate in Maru county of Zamfara. The Nigerian Army has...

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Kano leads in states with highest Inflation rate as inflation soars to 28.2%

EconomyNewsNigeriaKano leads in states with highest Inflation rate as inflation soars to 28.2%

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 17, 2023

Nigeria’s inflation rate jumped in November to 28.2 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said last Friday. The latest rate is a 0.61 per cent rise from October’s 27.33 per cent. The consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, soared about 6.73 per cent points, compared to the 21.47 per cent recorded in November 2022, NBS said. Rises in the price of goods caused by President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms, including scrapping...

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NGO partially suspends operations in Zamfara due to insecurity

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNGO partially suspends operations in Zamfara due to insecurity

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 17, 2023

Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, a charity organisation that provides humanitarian medical care in conflict zones, is evacuating its staff from Zamfara State because of growing security risks. The MSF said armed gangs have been attacking Zurmi town in Zamfara State since 10 December, with some occurring dangerously close to a hospital supported by the humanitarian organisation. Adjide Hermann, MSF deputy field coordinator in Zurmi, said the organization can no...

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Public universities, polytechnics are no longer part of IPPIS – FG

EducationNewsNigeriaPublic universities, polytechnics are no longer part of IPPIS – FG

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 15, 20231

Government-owned tertiary institutions have been yanked off the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, which has slowed down staff remuneration and recruitment, among other things since 2006. The Minister of the Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said on Wednesday that the development is to make room for greater autonomy. Minister Idris said the exemption of public tertiary institutions from the IPPIS was a joint decision of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, in response...

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Nigerian Army arrests IPOB/ESN Commandant in Enugu

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNigerian Army arrests IPOB/ESN Commandant in Enugu

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 15, 2023

Troops of the Nigerian Army, NA, codenamed Sector 1 Exercise Golden Dawn III have apprehended Uchechukwu Akpa, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its armed affiliate, the Eastern Security Network (ESN) militants. Akpa was nabbed alongside three others identified as Udoka Anthony Ude, Ikechukwu Ulanta, and Ezennaya Udeigewere at their hideout at Christ the King Catholic Church, Ameta Mgbowo in Awgu LGA of Enugu State on Wednesday, 13 December. “The arrest...

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Supreme Court says Nnamdi Kanu must face trial for terrorism

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaSupreme Court says Nnamdi Kanu must face trial for terrorism

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 15, 2023

The Supreme Court in Nigeria has declined to order the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. The separatist leader has been in detention since 2021 despite a Court of Appeal judgment on 13 October 2022 ordering his release. Hopes were high that the Supreme Court would quash the terrorism charges against Kanu who has been in detention since June 2021 when he was forcefully extradited from...

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