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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has cautioned against any form of reprisal killings in the state over the lingering herdsmen crisis, warning that his administration would mete out stiff penalties to anyone caught engaging in the act. Ortom maintained that the herdsmen crisis in state was not a religious or ethnic war and should not be capitalized on to attack innocent persons who had no hand in the killings taking place in the rural communities. The governor, who sounded the warning Monday in Makurdi while inaugurating a 10 newly selected First Class Chiefs in the state, said: “We are…

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Auyo, Jigawa State, said his administration’s economic diversification and inclusion growth programmes, especially in key good producing states, were producing positive results. Buhari, who is on a two-day working visit to the state, stated this during the commencement of the rehabilitation and expansion of the 6,000-hectare Hadejia Valley irrigation project, adding that Nigeria’s agricultural revolution was real and on course. Buhari in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, assured that his administration would sustain the positive momentum in the sector by implementing the right policies and providing the needed…

The World Bank Group has invested about $10.734 billion in projects and programmes in Nigeria. The bank’s delegation of 10 executive directors which visited the country last week, said it was excited with the economy’s return to growth and pledged more collaboration to accelerate the growth rate. A breakdown of the bank’s total investment showed that Nigeria Country Partnership Strategy extending to FY19 has an investment of $8.8 billion through the International Development Association, IDA, and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD. The International Finance Corporation, IFC, has a commitment $1.6 billion, which is IFC’s fifth largest global country exposure; while Nigeria…

All is not well with the defunct new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, bloc in the All Progressives Congress, APC, as some high profile members of the bloc have dismissed as pure baloney claims of marginalization by a faction led by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje. The group led by former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu was at the national secretariat of the ruling party Monday to submit a letter detailing the fortunes of the nPDP bloc under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Other members of the group are a former member of the House of Representatives from Kwara State, Moshood…

For some people, acquisition of knowledge is power; to others the accumulation of more knowledge is the beginning of power, but to the rest, the love of academic knowledge is voluptuous. This may have been the case of a young Nigerian who seems to have acquired all kinds of academic qualifications, yet he is still desiring for more. The Nigerian man, Lanre Udu recently graduated from Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, United States. Already, he had bagged a Ph.D, two bachelors and two Master’s degrees from different universities. Udu who is the brother of…

Israeli forces opened fire on demonstrators in Gaza on Monday, killing 52 Palestinians and injuring more than 2,400 people protesting on Monday, May 14, but US and Israeli officials celebrated the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported that the Palestinians were killed and many wounded in protests in Gaza and West Bank fell on the border on what became the bloodiest day in Gaza since the 2014 war, over moving US embassy to Jerusalem. Protests quieted down in Gaza but they are expected to return tomorrow, a significant day for the Great March of…

Mohamed Salah has scooped up yet another award after his fabulous first season with Liverpool as the Egypt star was named the Premier League’s Player of the Year on Sunday. Salah had already won the PFA Player of the Year voted for by his fellow players, as well as the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year award and Liverpool’s own Player of the Year prize. The 25-year-old’s deluge of individual honours came at the end of a season in which he has scored 31 goals in 37 league matches following his move from Roma last year. Salah will break…

A 56-year-old man from Atan near Ota in Ogun State allegedly caught stealing a pot of soup from a food vendor’s shop has landed in court for trial. Tajudeen Lateef, had appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly breaking into a food vendor’s shop and stealing pot of soup, and N10,000. He, however, pleaded not guilty. But the Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Mike Unah insisted that the accused committed the offence on May 3 at No. 27, Isiaka St., Oko-Oba, Agege, a Lagos suburb. He said the accused broke into the shop of the complainant, Tawa Amusa, ransacked it and…

It has been asserted that more than 50 per cent of people in the world are yet to identify and use their God-given talents to improve their well-being indeed the larger society. Pastor Sam Etok who stated Sunday in a sermon entitled “Your Gift Shall Open A Door For You” lamented that many people are operating under the borrowed talents of others while the rest are struggling to survive or eke a living for themselves due to their inability to know and utilise their talents. Etok who is the Regional Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, South South…

A US-based medical doctor has rebuffed Nigerian government’s involvement using tax payers’ money to establish hospitals which are not properly run and managed in rendering efficient health-care service delivery to the people. This is against the background of some Nigerian leaders and rich people despite the hospitals going overseas for medical tourism which, to a large extent, helps to deplete the country’s foreign exchange. Ndem Ndem, speaking on a privately owned radio station, Inspiration FM in Uyo Sunday, said government should provide enabling environment for interested investors and persons to establish the hospitals rather than government engaging in building hospitals…