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By Femi Alabi Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadin Kai, Waidi Shuaibu has said that terrorists operating in the North East have been so broken down to the level that they avoid confrontation with forces in the field. Shuaibu made this known at the opening of an Improvised Explosive Device(IED) awareness and detection training for the Civilian Joint Task Force in Maiduguri. “In view of this, the need for them to resort to IEDs cannot be over-emphasised “This training is tailored towards equipping participants with requisite skills and knowledge required to search, detect, identify…

By Femi Alabi Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadin Kai, Waidi Shuaibu has said that terrorists operating in the North East have been so broken down to the level that they avoid confrontation with forces in the field. Shuaibu made this known at the opening of an Improvised Explosive Device(IED) awareness and detection training for the Civilian Joint Task Force in Maiduguri. “In view of this, the need for them to resort to IEDs cannot be over-emphasised “This training is tailored towards equipping participants with requisite skills and knowledge required to search, detect, identify…

By Femi Alabi Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took back his spot as the world’s richest man on Monday, dethroning Elon Musk on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bezos’ net worth stands at $200 billion, according to the tracker, surpassing the Tesla chief’s $198 billion. Musk, who also heads X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX, has seen his riches fall by more than $30 billion as Tesla’s share price has dropped 25 percent in recent months. Adding to Musk’s woes, a court in January approved the annulment of his enormous Tesla compensation agreement, worth $55.8 billion and originally struck in 2018. Bezos, who…

By Femi Alabi Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took back his spot as the world’s richest man on Monday, dethroning Elon Musk on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bezos’ net worth stands at $200 billion, according to the tracker, surpassing the Tesla chief’s $198 billion. Musk, who also heads X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX, has seen his riches fall by more than $30 billion as Tesla’s share price has dropped 25 percent in recent months. Adding to Musk’s woes, a court in January approved the annulment of his enormous Tesla compensation agreement, worth $55.8 billion and originally struck in 2018.…

By Joan Nwagwu Abuja, March 4, 2024 (NAN) The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), has called on President Bola Tinubu to direct prompt payment of members’ four months salaries currently being withheld. Mr Hassan Makolo, its National President, made the call during an emergency meeting of NASU branch chairmen and Inter-University Centres on Monday in Abuja. Makolo said that the call was imperative to ensure industrial harmony in the sector. He recalled that Tinubu had given a directive that the withheld salaries of the unions that embarked on strike during the last regime should be…

Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency’s visits over the weekend to the Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals were the first since early October. In a post on social media, he spoke of “grim findings”. A lack of food resulted in the deaths of 10 children and “severe levels of malnutrition”, while hospital buildings have been destroyed, he wrote. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reported on Sunday that at least 15 children had died from malnutrition and dehydration at the Kamal Adwan hospital. A sixteenth…

By Femi Alabi Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that dialogue and not any form of violence would help resolve various conflicts in Africa. Obasanjo stated this on Monday in Abeokuta at a Youth leadership symposium with the theme “Opportunities for Peace: Roles of The Youths in Conflict Prevention in Africa” . He said that efforts to inculcate culture of peace and security in the youth must be intensified to spur them to be at the vanguard of promoting peace rather than being used to perpetrate violence in the continent. The programme was put together by Centre for Human…

Agency report Gov. Umar Bago of Niger State has clarified misconceptions regarding the state’s stance on the mass purchase of food items from the state to other states in the country. The governor said this while speaking with newsmen in Abuja on Monday. Bago said he only stopped bulk purchases of food from local markets to neighbouring countries, adding that food items purchased in the state markets were not stopped from being taken to other states. He said the decision was to regulate the level of sales and ensure people were not exploited by smugglers. “We have markets in the…

By Femi Alabi In its resolve to improve the welfare of all officers of the Nigeria Police Force, the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has commissioned.a new block of wards and a physiotherapy department building at the Police Hospital, Eleyele, Ibadan on Sunday Egbetokun while commissioning the projects, assured of the commitment of his leadership to improved welfare package for every officer of the Nigeria Police Force in all areas. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi in a statement on X stated that the newly commissioned building is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to cater for the medical…

By Femi Alabi Amnesty International has said that blasphemy is being used in Nigeria to target religious minorities, pursue personal vendettas, and carry out vigilante violence. The Organisation on its official X handle called on the Nigerian Government to ensure that the killers of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto are brought to book. Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year Christian college student, was stoned to death by a mob of Muslim students in Sokoto, Nigeria, after being accused of blasphemy against IslamOn the 12th of May 2022. Amnesty International in its post querried why it took so long for government to get…