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The abductors of the 121 students of Bethel Baptist Secondary school in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state have demanded for food items from their parents to enable them feed the children. The bandits warned that failure to do so will expose the children to impending starvation. The parents disclosed this on Saturday during their daily prayer sessions to seek for God’s intervention for the release of their children. They added that the kidnappers are yet to make any demand for ransom. Also on Saturday, the main opposition political party in Kaduna state, the Peoples Democratic Party called on…

The Federal Government has inaugurated a 10-man committee to resolve the dispute between Kaduna State Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) with a charge to the members to meet the expectation of President Muhammadu Buhari that industrial peace returns to the State. The committee, inaugurated by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige in Abuja, is headed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Dr. Peter Yemira Tarfa, with the Secretary to Kaduna State Government, Balarabe Lawal and Deputy National President of NLC, Najim Hashim as co-chairmen. Mrs. O. U. Akpan, the Director of…

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a decisive action by the military against bandits terrorising Kaduna and Zamfara states. He also cautioned politicians who are taking advantage of the situation to make vituperative statements, to cease from such and instead focus on nation building and a lasting solution to Nigeria’s insecurity. The President made this known in a statement through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu. Read the full statement below: “President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday condemned repeated bandit killings in Zamfara and Kaduna States, urging the nation’s military to respond to the worrying…

The Lagos Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS and other related abuses has admitted in evidence the autopsy results and Compact Discs of all 99 corpses deposited at the Lagos morgue between the 20th and the 27th of October 2020. A consultant pathologist to the Lagos State Government, Professor John Obafunwa, who is testifying before the panel on Saturday brought the autopsy results following an order made on June 5, 2021, for it to be produced. The documents were contained in two nylon bags – blue and white. The Chairman of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi admitted the…

Twitter has pledged to “fully comply” with India’s new internet regulations, caving in a dispute with the government over rules that critics say curtail privacy and free speech. The US social media giant has appointed an interim chief compliance officer, will name a grievance officer by July 11 and set up an India office in eight weeks, a lawyer for the company told the Delhi High Court on Thursday. These are some of the requirements under Intermediary rules issued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in February. Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and others have already made the appointments and started generating…

The Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN) has concluded plans to hold its 48th Annual General Meeting/Congress. The AGM/Congress will hold at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Ibadan, Oyo State on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th July, 2021. The theme for this year’s AGM/Congress is “Boom, Gloom and Doom! Where do we sit?” Mr. Seyi Makinde, the Executive Governor of Oyo State, will be among prominent dignitaries at the 48th Annual General Meeting/Congress of the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria. The Governor is expected to declare open the AGM. The Honourable Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed will also…

You’ve got to like social media. It’s a fascinating space for you to laugh, be amazed and also to learn how the human mind works. One thing that intrigued me in the last week was the attention drawn to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s umbrella and power bank. The argument for and against also provided a curious social experiment for those of us in the social sciences but this brief is not about what was said and what wasn’t, it is simply about analyzing the body language of Osinbajo and why this should be a good study going forward. Not many…

Last Sunday, dozens of Muslim women in India found they had been put up for sale online. Hana Khan, a commercial pilot whose name was on the list, told the BBC she was alerted to it when a friend sent her a tweet. The tweet took her to “Sulli Deals”, an app and website that had taken publicly available pictures of women and created profiles, describing the women as “deals of the day”. The app’s landing page had a photo of an unknown woman. On the next two pages Ms Khan saw photos of her friends. On the page after…

World number one Ashleigh Barty won her first Wimbledon title as she capitalised on a nervous display by Karolina Pliskova. Barty won the first 14 points to take early charge in a 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 win on the 50th anniversary of idol Evonne Goolagong Cawley’s maiden win here. Czech Pliskova settled in the second set, rediscovering her big serve before errors crept back in the third. Barty sealed her second Grand Slam title when Pliskova netted a backhand. “This is incredible,” said Barty, who is the first Australian woman to win the Wimbledon singles title for 41 years. “I…

Taliban officials said on Friday the Sunni Muslim insurgent group had taken control of 85% of territory in Afghanistan, and international concern mounted over problems getting medicines and supplies into the country. Afghan government officials dismissed the assertion that the Taliban controlled most of the country as part of a propaganda campaign launched as foreign forces, including the United States, withdraw after almost 20 years of fighting. But local Afghan officials said Taliban fighters, emboldened by the withdrawal, had captured an important district in Herat province, home to tens of thousands of minority Shi’ite Hazaras. Torghundi, a northern town on…