Six Super-Tucano Fighter Jets Due To Arrive Nigeria

The Presidency said on Thursday said six of the 12 Super-Tucano fighter jets ordered by the Federal Government from the United States (U.S.) are due in the country in July. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said six of the jets would be delivered by the middle of July. In a post on his Twitter handle, Shehu said the remaining six would arrive shortly after, adding that...

OPINION: The Nigerian Military’s Missing Link: A Joint Special Operations Command

By Fola Aina Nigeria’s northern regions continue to struggle with insecurity, claiming the lives of tens of thousands and displacing millions due to armed banditry and Boko Haram. Significant battlefield defeats led the military to resort to a strategy of establishing super camps to prevent terrorists and armed bandits from overrunning areas of relative peace. However, as that approach has largely failed, President Muhammadu Buhari decided to heed months of repeated calls for change among the military’s top brass when he appointed new service chiefs in late...

OPINION: John Magufuli, Tanzania’s COVID-Denying President, Dies

By Nolan Quinn ____ President John Magufuli’s death at sixty-one years of age followed a familiar pattern among Africa’s putative strongmen: denials that he was sick followed by secrecy as to the circumstances of his dying and where it happened. Magufuli, like other African heads of state, apparently sought treatment outside his own country, rumor had it either in Kenya or India—perhaps both. Vice President Samia Suluhu, announcing the president’s death yesterday, said the president died from a heart...

Senate Suspends Bill Seeking to Restructure Nigeria Military

The Senate on Wednesday had a heated debate following the presentation of a bill seeking to restructure the Nigerian Armed Forces. The bill was titled, ‘A bill for the Establishment of Armed Forces Service Commission, 2021’ and sponsored by the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe. The bill seeks for the appointment of service chiefs in compliance with the federal character principle based on the recommendations of members of a proposed commission. Abaribe, while leading the...

United Nations Launch $1b Appeal For 6.4m Vulnerable People Of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe

The United Nations is appealing for $1 billion to help 6.4 million of Nigeria’s most vulnerable people, including two million who have been forced to flee their homes because of armed conflict. The bulk of the money will be used to provide life-saving assistance to millions of people in Nigeria’s northeastern states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe due to activities of Boko Haram, which began in 2009. Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. Office for...

Tanzania President Dies At the Age of 61

Tanzanian President, John Magufuli has died at the age of 61 from a heart condition. The Vice President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, said this in an address on state television on Wednesday. The news of his death broke out after days of uncertainty over his health and whereabout. According to the Vice President, “It is with deep regret that I inform you that today on the 17th of March, 2021 at 6 pm we lost our...

OPINION: Nigeria Needs to Better Protect its Schoolchildren

By Nkasi Wodu In early March, over three hundred schoolgirls abducted by armed groups from a secondary school in Zamfara State in northern Nigeria were released by their abductors. Unfortunately, the global outrage this incident stoked has not deterred the armed groups operating in the north. Just last week, another set of students was kidnapped from a college in Kaduna State—the third mass kidnapping of students in Nigeria in 2021. An ugly video released by the kidnappers in Kaduna showed the students being...

Central Bank of Nigeria Introduced New Charges For USSD Services

ABUJA — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced new charges for customers using the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services. The apex bank has announced that from Tuesday, customers will pay N6.98 per transaction every time they use USSD services. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Osita Nwanisobi, and Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Ikechukwu Adinde. The statement read in part “Effective March...

Kogi State Yet To Receive COVID-19 Vaccines

The Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib on Monday confirmed that Kogi State is yet to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Shuaib disclosed this during a Press briefing of the PTF on COVID-19 in Abuja, explained that due to the ongoing repairs of the cold storage facility in Kogi State, it is yet to receive vaccines. He added that the state is now the only state yet...

Comedienne Emmanuella Wins Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards

ABUJA — Nigerian Comedienne Emmanuella has won Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Award 2021, for Favourite African Social Media Star. She posted this on her Instagram handle and thanked her family and fans for their massive support. She wrote: “Congratulations to me as I won the Favourite African Social Media Star category at the Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2021. I am so happy to be a winner, thank you! To all my fans out there, I say...

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