UK poised to get Nigerian high commissioner soon as Tinubu sends three-man list to senate

NIGERIA is all set to soon appoint a substantive high commissioner to the UK after President Bola Tinubu forwarded the names of three ambassadorial nominees to the senate for approval with one of them expected to be posted to London soon.

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Given the current insecurity in the country, Nigeria’s Northern State Governors Forum needs to meet immediately and agree a plan like this to create about 20m jobs and woo our youths away from crime and terrorism

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[1] Open a 20,000 square kilometre National Game Reserve in Taraba State. Make it the world’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Designed along similar lines to South Africa’s Kruge National Park, it should employ about 5,000 park rangers to police and fight off poachers

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UK rejects request to allow Ekweremadu serve the rest of his sentence back in Nigeria

BRITAIN has rejected a request from the Nigerian government to allow former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu to serve the remainder of his nine year prison sentence back home pointing out that any prisoner transfer must meet strict justice and security conditions.

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Nigeria needs to take a cue from Britain and see how they turned the Northern Ireland debacle into a huge money spinner. We can do likewise with our current insecurity

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[1] Do you know that on March 4 1976, the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention was formally dissolved resulting in direct rule of the province from London by the British parliament. Britain made billions from what was supposed to be a major setback

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US agrees to provide security assistance to help end the violence raging across Nigeria

WASHINGTON has agreed provide Nigeria with assistance that will enable it to combat the growing insecurity ravaging the country following a recent meeting between both governments in response to President Donald Trump's intervention into the matter.

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Southwest governors expected to increase funding for Amotekun at today's Ibadan meeting

GOVERNORS of Nigeria's six states that make up the southwest geo-political zone are expected to come up with a new security initiative this week in response to the growing insecurity that is ravaging the country.

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With kidnapping now the most lucrative industry in Nigeria our National Assembly needs to pass an Emergency Security Measures Bill immediately

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[1] Our intelligence agencies must be compelled to publish details of any politician, monarch or publicly exposed person on whom they have information that he could be a sponsor of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers or hoodlums

[2] Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and all its splinter groups must be declared terrorist organisations

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About 50 of the kidnapped students in Niger State escape from their abductors

ABOUT 50 of the students kidnapped by terrorists from St Mary’s Catholic School in Niger State have escaped from their abductors and have been reunited with the families in a development that has lifted spirits in the area.

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Maybe President Tinubu should launch his security strategy with the revival of the Mokwa Cattle Ranch, using it as a training centre for herdsmen and Almajiris

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[1] This is the Mokwa Cattle Ranch (MCR), established in 1964 specifically for livestock fattening purposes under a bilateral agreement between the German and Nigerian governments. Sir Ahmadu Bello, the then premier of the Northern Region planned to make it Nigeria’s primary livestock production centre

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Italian prime minister adds her voice to the debate over the killing of Nigerian Christians

ITALIAN prime minister Georgia Meloni has added her voice to the ongoing debate surrounding the killing of Christians in Nigeria by calling on the federal government to arrest and prosecute all those responsible for the violence.

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