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A train conveying passengers from Kaduna to Abuja derailed on Wednesday morning. A Nigerian Rail Way Cooperation (NRC) staff who prefers anonymity confirmed the incident to the Guardian. When asked if the problem had been rectified, the train staff replied, “We are still working on it”. Similarly, a former senator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu…
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Sen. Ned Nwoko (PDP-Delta) has advocated an end to the pervasive influence of “godfatherism” for the nation’s democracy to yield the desired dividends. Nwoko, representing Delta North Senatorial District, said this on Wednesday in Abuja, in his democracy day message, made available to newsmen. “Godfatherism” is “a term used primarily in Nigeria, to refer to…
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Vice President Kashim Shettima has appealed to Nigerian doctors to resist the “Japa syndrome” and stay put in Nigeria to support the Bola Tinubu administration in its efforts to salvage the nation. Apparently cautioning against the recent surge in a phenomenon colloquially referred to in the local parlance as “Japa Syndrome”, Shettima did not just…
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The 1st Division Nigerian Army on Wednesday urged residents neighbouring the shooting range not to panic over the exercise, urging them to go about their normal daily routine activities without fear. The acting Deputy Director of Army Public Relations of the division, Lt.-Col. Musa Yahaya, gave the advice in a statement issued in Kaduna. Yahaya…
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At least 29 suspected bandits have been reportedly killed following airstrikes conducted by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. A spokesperson to the state governor, Ibrahim Mohammed, said the airstrikes were conducted in the vicinity of Bakori hills and Yartsintsiya areas of the council. Mohammed said the airstrikes…
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