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The Nigeria Navy says 50 girls allegedly forced into prostitution in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital, have been rescued from two brothels in the state. Three suspected sex traffickers were also arrested during the raid on the brothels. Richard Iginla, base information officer, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, announced the development on […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Monday, hold an “emergency meeting” with security chiefs. According to a tweet by Bashir Ahmad, special assistant to the president on digital communications, the meeting, which will hold in Abuja, is part of efforts to improve security. “President @MBuhari has summoned an emergency security meeting tomorrow in […]

More than 70 people have been killed after a suspension footbridge collapsed into the Macchu river in Morbi town, Gujarat, India. According to BBC, the bridge which collapsed on Sunday, plunged hundreds of people into the river with as many as 400 people said to have been on the bridge at the time. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has his backing to redesign the naira notes. According to the president, Nigeria has a lot to gain from the change in naira notes. He added that he did not consider the period of three months for the change to the new notes as […]

Adebayo Lawal, deputy governor of Oyo, says Seyi Makinde, his principal, supports Afenifere leaders on their preferred choice of presidential candidate for the 2023 elections. Lawal said this on Sunday at a meeting between Afenifere leaders and Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Akure, the capital of Ondo […]

Governors from the south-east zone say they believe a “political solution” is a possiblity on the charges filed against Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Dave Umahi, chairman of the south-east governors’ forum, said this on Sunday after a meeting of the governors in Enugu. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Dave […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), does not have the power to stop any member of the party from contesting elections. Wike said this on Sunday in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state. The Rivers governor was responding to a recent […]

Reuben Fasoranti, a leader of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group, on Sunday, prayed for the success of Bola Tinubu’s presidential bid. Tinubu, standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), visited the home of Fasoranti in Akure, the Ondo capital. During the meeting, the former governor of Lagos could be seen bowing […]

At least 100 people were killed, including women and children, after two car bombs exploded in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu on Saturday. According to the BBC, the two car bombs exploded within minutes, leaving buildings and vehicles in the area destroyed. The first bomb explosion hit the ministry of education and then […]