IFAD-VCDP Supports 150 Dry Season Farmers In Ebonyi State

NewsNigeriaIFAD-VCDP Supports 150 Dry Season Farmers In Ebonyi State

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 30, 2024

One hundred and fifty dry-season farmers in Ebonyi would receive assistance under the Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) from the Federal Government of Nigeria/ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Mr. Sunday Ituma, the IFAD-VCDP State Programme Coordinator, disclosed this while flagging off the 2023/24 dry season farming at Odomowo, Inyimegu in Ikwo Local Government Area of the state. “The benefiting 150 farmers are expected to cultivate 150 hectares of land. “IFAD-VCDP will support the...

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Wife of The Governor Supports Over 12,000 Sickle Cell Patients

HealthNewsWife of The Governor Supports Over 12,000 Sickle Cell Patients

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 30, 2024

A pet project, “Safe Space Humanitarian Initiative (SASHIN)” founded by the wife of Katsina state governor, Mrs Zulaihat Radda in collaboration with the state’s Ministry of Health has supported 12,202 patients of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) with free drugs in 2023. The governor’s wife made this known while launching the distribution of Sickle Cell Disease and antimalarial drugs in Katsina on Monday. “The project registered and provided drugs and support to 12,202 sickle cell patients across...

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Nigerian Navy Hands Over 11 Suspects NSCDC

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNigerian Navy Hands Over 11 Suspects NSCDC

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 30, 2024

The Nigerian Navy handed over 11 arrested suspects to the Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC who were arrested with items used in legal refinery construction at Billie in Degema local government area of Rivers State. Handing over the suspects to the officials of NSCDC, the Commander NNS Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, Navy Commodore Desmond Igbo, who was represented by the Base Operation Officer, Commander Sa’id Mohammed Kabir, said its...

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Gunmen kill 2 traditional heads, abduct schoolchildren in Ekiti

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaGunmen kill 2 traditional heads, abduct schoolchildren in Ekiti

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 30, 2024

There has been unrest in relatively peaceful Ekiti State after gunmen, suspected to be armed herdsmen, slew two kings in the southern State. The traditional rulers; the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti, Oba Babatunde Ogunsakin; and Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Olushola were killed on Monday by gunmen who ambushed them on a highway. They were returning to Ekiti from a meeting in Northcentral Kogi State where the state of Nigeria’s deteriorating security was discussed. The Alara...

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“We shall have Competitive Governance in Anambra LG Administration” – Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah

NewsNigeriaPolitics“We shall have Competitive Governance in Anambra LG Administration” – Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)January 30, 2024

The senator representing Anambra South senatorial zone, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, has said that the current system of local government administration in Anambra State is a signpost that the current occupants of the seat of power in Anambra lack practical ideas or are not willing or interested in the common good. Expanding his statement that he would conduct local government election in Anambra State within four months, Sen. Ubah, in a conversation with the West African...

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US oil company, Dangote Refinery broker 2m barrel of crude deal

NewsNigeriaOil & GasUS oil company, Dangote Refinery broker 2m barrel of crude deal

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 30, 2024

Africa’s giant refinery in Lagos State, Dangote Refinery is preparing to import crude from the U.S. in the coming weeks, as the refinery valued at $20 billion intensifies its move to hit the market with refined oil products. Dangote Refinery, named after its owner Aliko Dangote, began operations on 12 January to end Nigeria’s years-long reliance on refined petroleum products since its launch in May 2023. Bloomberg, quoting individuals about the business deal, reported on...

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Boko Haram kills 13 farmers in Borno

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaBoko Haram kills 13 farmers in Borno

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 29, 2024

An improvised explosive device set by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram on the Pulka–Firgi road in Gwoza LGA of Borno State has killed 13 farmers. The devastating incident occurred in the early hours of Monday. The farmers’ van unsuspectingly stepped on the buried locally-made bomb and almost immediately it detonated. Seven farmers including the driver of the van died on the spot, according to Lake Chad security and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama. The injured...

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Military airstrike kills 30 terrorists in Kaduna

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaMilitary airstrike kills 30 terrorists in Kaduna

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 29, 2024

No fewer than 30 terrorists have fallen to the firepower of troops of “Operation Whirl Punch” of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, in Kaduna State. NAF spokesman Edward Gabkwet said the terrorists were killed in a “precision strike” after the military got wind of their rendezvous along the Kwiga-Kampamin Doka axis in Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna. The intelligence report, Gabkwet said, revealed a trail of terrorists moving in a convoy of 15 motorbikes, each...

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Jilted Female Lover Commits Suicide In Adamawa

LifestyleNewsNigeriaJilted Female Lover Commits Suicide In Adamawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 29, 2024

a National Diploma II student of the Department of Mass Communication at the Federal Polytechnic Mubi in Adamawa State Jamima Shetima Balami has reportedly committed suicide by consuming a substance believed to be rat poison after falling apart with her boyfriend. Balami, a 24-year-old who was undergoing Industrial Training (IT) at the Adamawa Television (ATV), Yola hailed from Garkida Gombi, died at her residence in Vinikilang ward in the Girei local government area of the state....

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Air Force Chief apologises for last year’s accidental bombing of civilians in Nasarawa

NewsNigeriaAir Force Chief apologises for last year’s accidental bombing of civilians in Nasarawa

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 29, 2024

The head of Nigeria’s Air Force said last Friday he was profoundly sorry his officers bombed civilians a year ago in Kwateri, a village in Nasarawa State. Twenty-seven people died when the military mistook the movements of herders for those of bandits on 24 January 2023, and an airstrike was called in. Since the bombing, the authorities neither provided information on the incident nor owned up to the killing of the civilians.   A year...

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