ABUJA — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s office on Friday denied that he favored the north of the country over other regions, after he was criticized for asking the World Bank to focus on the region. The northeast in particular has been wracked by an eight-year Islamist militant insurgency that has killed more than 20,000 people and forced 2 million to flee
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NIGERIA. Pandemonium broke out in Anambra today over the commencement of a medical outreach by men of the Nigerian Army in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo local government area when soldiers stormed a school in the community to begin the administration of drugs to indigenes. Rumour however went to town that the soldiers were in Anambra to inject children with vaccines as had
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– The independence referendum in Catalonia appears to have put the region on a path to secession from Spain. But will that happen? – Catalonia’s 7.5 million people are sharply polarised. At the weekend a vast pro-unity rally took place in Barcelona, rivalling the many pro-independence rallies the city has seen. – Here we look at the possible next moves
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MANCHESTER UK. Boris Johnson the UK Foreign Secretary claimed today that Britain’s Doctors were completely responsible for providing healthcare to Nigeria due to terrorist attacks. This is happening in the northeastern region of the country which has been devastated by the boko haram sect terrorist attacks over the past few years. He made this claim in a speech he gave
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– BRIGHTON. Veteran MP Dennis Skinner made a barnstorming speech at Labour’s annual conference . – Calls Labour’s 2017 manifesto ‘the best since 1945’ The 85-year-old, who has been MP for Bolsover since 1970, hailed a “tremendous year” for Labour, which he credited to Jeremy Corbyn and the Shadow Cabinet. “We had a manifesto that, quite frankly, was the best
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NIGERIA. The Borno State Police Command have arested many IDPs in connection with the yesterday botched protest to return back to their ancestral home after more than three years of exile from Boko Haram crisis. Reports that some displaced people from Bama in the early hours of Sunday staged a protest at the welcome to Maiduguri, Bama/Maiduguri high way close
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BIAFRA. THERE is confusion over the whereabouts of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu in the aftermath of the recent clash the group had with the military in Aba, Abia State. The Army had allegedly invaded the home of the IPOB leader at Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State, in the ongoing military exercise in the South-east
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