The deadly air strikes conducted on Tudun Wulgo, Zari and Tumbun Alhaji, Kusuma, Sigir in Ngala and Arijallamari, in Abadam, Marte and Ngala Local government Areas, led to the killing of top ISWAP Leaders. The Commanders that perished in the airstrikes included; Mohammad Fulloja , Ameer Mallam Bello, Ba'a kaka Tunkushe, Abu Muktar Al -Ansari, Ameer Abba Kaka, Abu Huzaifa, Ameer Modu Kwayem, while Goni Mustapha who was the Chief Imam of the ISWAP escaped with bullet wounds.

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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) might consider deploying corps members to the 16 member states of the Economic Community of West African States Corps, according to one of the suggestions made at its top management retreat in Niger State.

During a retreat in Suleja, Prof Oka Obono, a lecturer at the University of Ibadan in Oyo State, suggested the idea to the NYSC top management. “Strategies for Sustaining the NYSC in a Changing World” was the title of his talk.

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The German government has stated that a German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention will be established in Ghana.

The German ambassador to Ghana, Christoph Retzlaff, revealed the center's location in a tweet on Thursday.


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After spending a night in Bama, Borno state governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday supervised the distribution of N200m and food items to over 70,000 displaced households.

The displaced persons have been denied access to their farmlands, markets and other means of livelihood for years as a result of the over a decade long insurgency.

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Just a day after the horrific murder of two police officers in Taraba State by unknown gunmen, the state has once again been plunged into mourning following the deaths of three farmers.

Unknown individuals hacked to death farmers who were tilling their farmlands in preparation for the rainy season on Wednesday.

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On Tuesday, the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) added its voice to the growing demands for Mr Danladi Umar to be removed from his role as Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) and prosecuted.

Mr Clement Sagwak, a security guard at the Banex Plaza in Abuja, was violently assaulted by Umar on March 29 in a viral video.


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DIG Usman Baba has been appointed as the acting Inspector-General of Police after being decorated (IGP).

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo gave a speech at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, which was followed by a decoration ceremony.

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Shoprite Holdings Limited, a South African group, has announced that it is on track to complete the sale of its Nigerian stores by the end of the year.

Shoprite announced this in its latest financial report for December 2020 operations on its website.

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President Muhammadu Buhari's generosity to petty traders and artisans who profit from his empowerment program may have been a stroke of luck.

However, the free loan system is breaking families apart, as one man in Yola, Adamawa State, has taken his lovely wife to court, requesting an account of the #20,000 she got.

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Suleiman Aliyu, a lawmaker from Kaduna State's Lere Federal Constituency, died at the age of 53, just days after another member of the House of Representatives, Haruna Maitala, died.

After a brief illness, Mr Aliyu died Tuesday afternoon at the Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital in Kaduna State.

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More than half a million Twitter posts about Saab, a Colombian citizen accused by the US of operating illegal fuel and gold trading schemes to aid Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in evading sanctions, were analyzed for the study

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The Nigeria's Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, has expressed trust that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) will be able to eliminate terrorists and other criminal elements from Nigeria in the immediate future.

He made the pledge at an Easter lunch with members of 013 Quick Response Force Minna, where he expressed his condolences to the families and coworkers of the three Airmen killed in Allawa operations on April 1, 2021.

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Nothing could be more shocking than seeing the man in charge of the country’s Code of Conduct Tribunal in such disgraceful misconduct in public. Justice Umar may have been watching a lot of UFC shows and may have learnt one or two things about how to punch, kick and overwhelm the opponent, but not even Israel Adesanya or Kamaru Usman would behave in such manner as seen in that video.

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After its customers were disconnected from banking networks such as the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and banking applications, MTN Nigeria has finally reduced commercial banks' commission to 4.5 percent.

MTN reduced the banks' commission from 4.5 percent to 2.5 percent on Friday, creating problems.

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Most years, International Women’s Day offers an opportunity to focus on the progress the world has made in pursuit of gender equality. Over the past decade, we have made huge leaps around the world. But sadly, this year feels different. The COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on everyone, but women, in particular, have shouldered much of the burden at home and at work. Years of progress have ground to a halt or, in some areas, regressed.

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Love cannot help you stick to one person all years round, and on the other hand, cheating isn’t always a product of not loving your partner. In fact, loving someone doesn’t guarantee not falling in love with someone else.

Relationships work out mostly because of our head not our heart. It works out because of our emotional maturity, empathetic intelligence and self-discipline because, time will come when you’ll see more beautiful, handsome, romantic, intelligent, sexy, rich, curvy and God-fearing people than the one you’re in a relationship with.

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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “his failure to probe allegations that N3,836,685,213.13 of public funds meant for the Federal Ministry of Health, teaching hospitals, medical centres, and National Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) are missing, mismanaged, diverted or stolen.

READ>>> https://thegazette.ng/president-buhari-in-fresh-lawsuit-over-missing-n3-8bn-health-funds/

The Central Bank of Nigeria has disbursed N94.34 billion of the N100 billion credit intervention for the healthcare sector that it announced as part of its steps to alleviate the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

This was revealed in the CBN's recent Monetary Policy Committee meeting paper, which was presented in Abuja by the CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele.

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After a violent gun duel with a group of bandits, the Kaduna State Police Command said on Sunday that its operatives foiled a kidnapping attempt and rescued five victims.

In a statement released in Kaduna, the Command Public Relations Officer, ASP Muhammad Jalige, confirmed the incident.

Read full>>> https://thegazette.ng/police-fight-off-bandits-in-a-fierce-gun-duel-rescue-5-victims-in-kaduna/

I have never felt so bad at being proven right, as I am by the report from Bloomberg Business on Saturday, March 27, 2021, that Nigeria is to emerge as the nation with the highest unemployment rate on Earth, at just over 33 per cent.

We warned about this, but repeated warnings by myself and other patriots were scorned. And now this.


Full story>>> https://thegazette.ng/why-we-must-help-buhari-succeed-by-atiku-abubakar/

In a statement made available to newsmen by the Force Spokesperson, Commissioner of Police, Frank Mba, the IGP reiterated that the Force would not tolerate any further attacks on its personnel or citizens by any individual or group under any guise whatsoever.

The IGP's alert comes after the arrest of 16 suspects in a series of violent and unprovoked attacks on security operatives and facilities in some states of the Federation, especially in Nigeria's south-eastern region, according to the statement.

Read full>> https://thegazette.ng/no-murderer-will-go-unpunished-says-igp/

After facing his 16 carry-overs, a recent graduate of Information Management Technology, IMT, Enugu, has rejoiced. The tertiary institutions in Nigeria are akin to battlegrounds. Before you can graduate, you must put in a lot of work.

In a social media trending picture, inspirational writings were written on the back of a "sign out" Shirt worn by a recent graduate from IMT, Enugu State. Following the photo's virality, Nigerians started to comment, claiming that the man possessed enough patience and determination to face 16 carry-overs.

Read full>>> https://thegazette.ng/16-carry-overs-polytechnic-graduate-rejoices-failed-courses/

On Friday, the Borno State House of Assembly passed a vote of confidence in the state's governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, effectively putting to rest a malicious online publication that falsely alleged a schism between the assembly and the governor.

The resolution was announced by Speaker of the Assembly, AbdulKarim Lawan, at a special meeting held at the assembly complex in Maiduguri on Friday, during which members of the assembly took turns praising Governor Zulum's excellent success with a series of government projects in their constituencies.

Read Full >>> https://thegazette.ng/borno-assembly-passes-confidence-vote-on-zulum-sends-security-after-impeachment-mischief/

The Nigerian Army on 26th March 2020 has released the shortlisted names of qualified candidates for its Short Service Combatant Course 47/2021.

This was published through its twitter handle advising the public to "Beware Of Fraudsters!!!".

Read full>>> https://thegazette.ng/nigerian-army-releases-short-service-shortlisted-candidates/

After a combined force of military troops and police officers unleashed unbelievable terror on the main campus of the Adamawa state polytechnic, Yola, assaulting students with clubs and machetes, many students have been reported injured and some parts of the building have been set ablaze.

Students at the Adamawa state polytechnic in Yola were reportedly targeted by security forces who chased them down into their hostels and attacked them with cubs and cutlasses, injuring many innocent students preparing for exams.

Read full>>>> https://thegazette.ng/photos-adamawa-polytechnic-shuts-down-as-many-left-injured-school-facilities-burnt/

Professor of soil science at the University of Calabar, Peter Ogban, will be imprisoned for the next three years.

A high court in Ikot-Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, has jailed him for fraudulently manipulating election results.

In the 2019 senatorial election in Akwa Ibom North-West, Ogban acted as the returning officer.

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According to Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), about 122,410 Nigerians have received the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

Mr Shuaib stated at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) weekly briefing on COVID-19 that Nigeria has not experienced any serious adverse reactions as a result of the administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

Read full>>> https://thegazette.ng/covid-19-update-over-122-000-nigerians-vaccinated/

Instagram and WhatsApp are popular social media platforms. For about 30 minutes today, Facebook and Facebook Messenger were unavailable to millions of users, with users complaining that they couldn't access the Facebook-owned social media platforms.

"We're sorry, but something went wrong. Please try again," said the Instagram app whenever we tried to access any part of the app. We're now able to refresh our feed of photos and videos, nor were we able to send messages.

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Any school student would tell you that there are three fundamental and inalienable human rights. These rights enshrined in the Universal Bill of Rights as well as in Nigeria’s constitution include: (1) right to life, (2) right to personal liberty and (3) the right to the pursuit of happiness. What this implies is that, no one, under any circumstances, is supposed to deny you any of these three fundamental and inalienable rights. They are your RIGHTS, not privileges!

Government is not doing you a favor allowing you to enjoy these rights. It is part of your source of self-concept; it is what sets you apart from animals and plants. And come to think of it, in more advanced climes, there are laws protecting animal rights and there are law enforcement agencies charged with the responsibility of solely looking after animals and catering to their welfare. If that is the case, how come in Nigeria you routinely hear people boast: “I will kill you and nothing will happen”?

Read full >>>> https://thegazette.ng/i-will-kill-you-and-nothing-will-happen-really/

Kanye West is the richest African American in the United States. He is a music producer, rapper, and fashion mogul. According to Bloomberg, West is the wealthiest Black man in American history, with a net worth of $6.6 billion.

With the aid of his popular clothing and sneaker company, Yeezy, and a new multi-year deal with Gap (NYSE: GPS +1.64 percent), West became a certified billionaire about the same time last year.

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Shatta Wale's failure to win a Grammy Award has prompted a Ghanaian blogger to take to Facebook to criticize him.

Beyonce's nine-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, has more Grammy awards than Shatta Wale, according to the blogger Samuel-Clement Enoku.

Read full>>> https://thegazette.ng/9-year-old-blue-ivy-reportedly-has-many-grammy-awards-than-shatta-wale-of-ghana/

Tiwa Savage, a popular Nigerian singer, is said to be warming the bed of a Davido staffer named Obama DMW because she has found true love in him.

The two lovers have managed to keep it hidden from the public eye in order to avoid public scrutiny.

Read full here >>> https://thegazette.ng/tiwa-savage-pregnant-for-davido-s-crew-member/