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A woman has claimed that her 10-year-old daughter was raped during a trip to Dubai which was organised by Chrisland School. Source: Top Stories

On Wednesday, Anyim Pius Anyim, a presidential hopeful on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said he should be recalled if he fails to perform as president after one year. Anyim stated this while addressing members of the PDP’s national working committee (NWC) at the party’s headquarters in Abuja. The […]

The multinational joint task force (MNJTF) says its troops have killed 10 Boko Haram commanders in the Lake Chad region. The MNJTF operates in the Lake Chad basin of Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria. Over a hundred of the insurgents were said to have been killed in a coordinated land and […]

Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, says the United Kingdom’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing raises “serious ethical questions”. Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, had announced the decision on Wednesday, arguing that the action is needed to stop illegal migration and to prevent “vile people smugglers” turning the ocean into […]

Abdulaziz Yari, former governor of Zamfara, and Kabiru Marafa, a former senator, have joined the Peoples Democratic Party from the All Progressives Congress (APC). Bala Mande, Zamfara PDP chairman, announced the defection of the two former APC chieftains on Sunday after a meeting in Gusau, state capital. Mande said Yari and Marafa […]

Matthew Kukah, Catholic bishop of Sokoto diocese, says the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is in hibernation mode while the country is broken and divided. Kukah, in his Easter message on Sunday, said the Buhari administration has divided citizens on the basis of ethnicity, religion and region. The cleric said the only […]

Gunmen have demanded N2 million each as ransom for some residents abducted in a community in Niger state. On Saturday evening, an unconfirmed number of people were abducted along Tapila-Gwada road, an area located in Shiroro LGA of Niger. The community is a 30-minute drive from Minna, Niger’s capital city. TheCable understands […]

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, says non-state actors destabilisation the state should embrace unity in the spirit of lent. In an Easter message, el-Rufai described Nigerians as people of faith and counselled that citizens should never let hope depart from their hearts. He said Nigerians should continue to practice the lessons of sacrifice, […]

Tanzania authorities say they’re now probing the sexual assault case involving a Nigerian national. Source: Top Stories