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Suspected robbers kill IBB varsity student
Punch
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June 23, 2025
Suspected armed robbers have killed a 200-level student of the Ibrahim Babangida University Lapai in Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State. The deceased was simply identified as Jafar. Arewa PUNCH learnt that the incident occurred in the...
Ghana’s Jubilee House: The monument reminiscing India-Ghana ties
Joy FM
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June 30, 2025
The iconic structure housing Ghana’s seat of government is expected to be yet another spotlight for India-Ghana relations as President John Dramani Mahama prepares to host his counterpart, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for a two-day...
Robbers Attack Another IBB University Students Hostel, Day After Killing 200-Level Victim
Sahara Reporters
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Just a day after the killing of a 200-level Chemistry department student, suspected armed robbers have again struck another off-campus student lodge of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBUL), Lapai, Niger State. SaharaReporters learnt that...
While Nigeria bleeds, the presidency chases titles abroad BY Peter Obi
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 1, 2025
It is alarming that we now live in a country of titles and honours without any passion for the people’s plight. While the Presidency basks in the euphoria of titles, St.Lucia, our people are being killed at home. A nation where children cannot go...
Sanitation: Abia lawmaker condemns arrest of offenders without arraignment
Punch
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July 2, 2025
The member representing Ohafia South State Constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, KaluMba-Nwoke, has condemned the indiscriminate arrest and detention of sanitation defaulters by police operatives without handing them over to the Mobile...
Robbers stab IBB university student to d3ath
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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June 23, 2025
Suspected armed robbers have killed a 200 level student of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, (IBBUL), Niger State. The deceased, simply called Jafar, was stabbed in the neck in his off-campus house on Sunday by the suspects. The...
Galamsey: UTAG expresses disappointment over govt’s slow progress in fighting
3News.com
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July 1, 2025
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has expressed deep disappointment at the seemingly snail-paced progress in the fight against illegal mining (galamsey) and the government’s failure to revoke L.I. 2462. UTAG says that while they...
Tinubu is collecting titles, while Nigerians die in dozens – Peter Obi
Abuja Inquirer
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July 1, 2025
The Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s recent state visit to St. Lucia, describing it as ill-timed and insensitive amid Nigeria’s worsening security and socio-economic...
Ibb University Shuts Down Indefinitely As Students Protest Over Colleag
The Nigerian Voice
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The management of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai in Niger State has shut down the institution following a protest by the students over the killing of a fellow student by suspected armed robbers. It was learnt that the students, on...
Knowledge Nugget: World Bank’s revised poverty line and India — A must-know for UPSC Exam
The Indian Express
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July 1, 2025
Take a look at the essential events, concepts, terms, quotes, or phenomena every day and brush up your knowledge. Here’s your knowledge nugget for today on World Bank’s revised poverty line and poverty in India.(Relevance: The topic of poverty is...
ORTT FOR PM MODI
Trinidad Express
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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will receive Trinidad and Tobago’s highest award – the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (ORTT) – during his official visit to this country this week. The Express understands that the Kamla...
NEMA, IOM facilitate return of 104 Nigerians from Algeria
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 1, 2025
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed the arrival of 104 Nigerians repatriated from Algeria as part of the Assisted Voluntary Returns initiative facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in...
Protest in Lapai over suspected armed robbery, culpable homicide-Police
News Diary Online
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June 23, 2025
The Police Command in Niger, says at about 3 a.m, it received information that at about 2.30 a.m, some hoodlums attacked a Student Lodge at Ndakitabu area via Lapai. By Yahaya Isah The Police Command in Niger, says at about 3 a.m, it received...
A Battle for Humane Consciousness in a War Against Truth: Exposing the Dark Arts of War
Dissident Voice
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June 30, 2025
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of...
Banks, farmers jittery over probe of N1.12trn Anchor Borrowers scheme
Business Hallmark
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June 23, 2025
The ongoing probe by the House of Representatives Committee on Nutrition and Food Security may open a Pandora box of the massive corruption that infested the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), N1.12 trillion under the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP)....
Democracy Is Not Dead – But It Must Be Reborn
Africa.com
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July 1, 2025
Democracy is in retreat. Across continents, long-standing institutions are crumbling, civic freedoms are under siege, and autocrats are rewriting the rules of engagement. In country after country, from Hungary to Myanmar, the United Staes to Sudan...
The way forward for Sahel states
Tribune Online
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June 23, 2025
By: Bamigboye Abiodun IN recent years, the Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to parts of Chad and Guinea, has witnessed a growing wave of anti-imperialist sentiment expressed through a series of military...
Nigeria’s gas production drops to 7.352mmscf/d in May 2025 – NNPCL
Nairametrics
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July 1, 2025
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has announced that Nigeria’s gas production fell to 7.352 billion standard cubic feet per day in May 2025, down from 7.354 billion mmscfd the previous month. This is according to the latest Monthly...
NNPC Reports N6trn Revenue, N1.05trn Profit for May 2025
Arise News
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July 1, 2025
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) Monday night released the information on its May 2025 operations, announcing approximately N6 trillion revenue and a N1.054 trillion Profit After Tax (PAT) during the period. The Bayo...
WHO calls for increased awareness, treatment to reduce Africa’s sickle cell burden
Premium Times
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June 20, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says African countries must ramp up awareness and bolster prevention and care to curb the burden of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) on the continent. The Medical Officer for Integrated Package Delivery, WHO Africa...