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NCDC raises alarm over life-threatening impact of antimicrobial resistance

NCDC raises alarm over life-threatening impact of antimicrobial resistance

Offor Callistus April 19, 2025
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has raised alarm over the life-threatening impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Director-General, NCDC, Dr Jide Idris, raised the alarm in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja. NAN reports that AMR occurs when microorganisms such...
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Nigeria police complete extradition of “Killaboi” to face murder charges IGP Kayode Egbetokun

Nigeria police complete extradition of “Killaboi” to face murder charges

Offor Callistus April 19, 2025
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The Nigeria Police Force has successfully completed the extradition of Benjamin Best Nnayereugo, male, widely known as “Killaboi,” from Doha, Qatar to Nigeria. The Force spokesman, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, confirmed this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja. ACP Adejobi said the fugitive, who...
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Shettima debunks report of being barred from presidential villa VP Kashim Shettima

Shettima debunks report of being barred from presidential villa

Offor Callistus April 19, 2025
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- Vice President Kashim Shettima has dismissed allegations that he was barred from accessing the Presidential Villa by armed security men. VP Shettima in statement by his Senior Special Assistant to The President on Media & Communications (Office of The Vice President), Stanley Nkwocha, attributed the...
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Paris Club refund: Consultant files contempt charge against CBN

Paris Club refund: Consultant files contempt charge against CBN

Offor Callistus April 19, 2025
A consulting firm, Melrose General Services Limited, has filed a contempt charge against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, and its Director of Legal Services, Salam-Alada Kofo, over dispute on the Paris Club refund. The company instituted the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/532/2025 before Justice Inyang Ekwo of...
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Easter: Jonathan urges Nigerians to embrace lessons of sacrifice, hope Former President Goodluck Jonathan

Easter: Jonathan urges Nigerians to embrace lessons of sacrifice, hope

Offor Callistus April 19, 2025
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Christians and other Nigerians, to leverage the lessons of Christ’s resurrection and imbibe the message of hope and victory over the nation’s current challenges. Jonathan stated this in his Easter message, by his Special Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, on Friday in Abuja. Jonathan encouraged...
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Easter: Wike promises sustained intervention in infrastructure, others FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike

Easter: Wike promises sustained intervention in infrastructure, others

Offor Callistus April 19, 2025
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has reaffirmed the FCT Administration’s commitment to the continued development of infrastructure across the territory. In his Easter message to FCT residents on Friday in Abuja, Wike also pledged the sustained provision of quality education, healthcare, agriculture, transportation,...
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Borno Govt receives 230 repentant Boko Haram terrorists from Operation Safe Corridor Repentant Boko Haram terrorists

Borno Govt receives 230 repentant Boko Haram terrorists from Operation Safe Corridor

Offor Callistus April 19, 2025
Borno State Government has received 230 repentant Boko Haram terrorists from the Operation Safe Corridor. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the repentant insurgents graduated from the Federal Government’s Operation Safe Corridor Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) Camp in Malam Sidi, Gombe State. The insurgents who are...
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SDP decries exclusion of North-East from Federal Agro-Industrial Scheme SDP

SDP decries exclusion of North-East from Federal Agro-Industrial Scheme

Offor Callistus April 19, 2025
The Forum of State Chairmen of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the North-East, has expressed concern over the exclusion of the region in the implementation of the Federal Government’s Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) initiative. This is contained in a communiqué at the end of the North-East Zonal...
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Wike: I wanted Fubara’s removal, but Tinubu came in and saved Rivers Fubara Wike Tinubu

Wike: I wanted Fubara’s removal, but Tinubu came in and saved Rivers

Offor Callistus April 18, 2025
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has backed President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers, saying he wanted the removal of Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the oil-rich state. In a move that has continued to divide opinions, Tinubu suspended Fubara, his...
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Easter: Tinubu promises better, more just, prosperous Nigeria for all President Bola Tinubu

Easter: Tinubu promises better, more just, prosperous Nigeria for all

Offor Callistus April 18, 2025
President Bola Tinubu on Friday felicitated Christians in Nigeria and worldwide as they observe Easter, the celebration of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection – the cornerstone of the Christian faith. In a message signed by the President, he said he remained steadfast in his commitment to delivering the promise...
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FULL TEXT: President Tinubu’s Easter message to the Nation President Bola Tinubu with Christian leaders

FULL TEXT: President Tinubu’s Easter message to the Nation

Offor Callistus April 18, 2025
I heartily felicitate Christians in Nigeria and worldwide as they commemorate Easter, the celebration of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection—the cornerstone of the Christian faith. The Holy Week, which spans Palm Sunday through Holy Thursday and Good Friday and culminates in Easter Sunday, calls us to reflect deeply on...
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