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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thisdaylive.com | Adeyinka Salami |Kasim Sumaina |Kingsley Nwezeh
Linus Aleke in AbujaThe Police Service Commission, PSC, has approved the promotion of several senior police officers, including 11 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police, 16 Deputy Commissioners of Police to Commissioners. It Commission also wielded the big stick by dismissal and prosecution of two Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASP) and others for misconduct, dishonesty, corruption, sabotage and acts unbecoming of public officers.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thisdaylive.com | Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo |Ima Ekanem |Ayo Yusuf |Kingsley Nwezeh
Hammed Shittu in IlorinThe Foundation for Peace Professionals (PeacePro) yesterday appealed to the members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to lay down their arms and surrender ammunitions as part of peace effort to mark historic Biafra surrender to the federal government on January 13, 1970. The foundation however said the historic event marked the end of the Nigerian-Biafra Civil War in the country.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thisdaylive.com | Adeyinka Salami |Kingsley Nwezeh |Ima Ekanem
•NAF investigates alleged killing of civilians in Zamfara airstrikesLinus Aleke in AbujaThe Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, said that long before Nigeria became a country, “our forebears established thriving societies grounded in the values of unity, community, and innovation. He said that it is both fitting and essential to pause and reflect on Nigeria’s rich history, which extends far beyond the colonial period.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thisdaylive.com | Adeyinka Salami |Kingsley Nwezeh |Ayo Yusuf
Michael Olugbode in AbujaThe United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has deployed the Representative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to Nigeria, Abdourahamane Diallo of Niger Republic, as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the Republic of Congo. Diallo brings more than 20 years of experience in the field of development to his post.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thisdaylive.com | Adeyinka Salami |Ima Ekanem |Emmanuel Addeh |Kingsley Nwezeh
John Shiklam in KadunaThe Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged Muhammad Sa’idu, a former aide to ex-Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State to court for alleged money laundering. The case was filed yesterday at the Federal High Court in Kaduna, by Dr. Osuobeni Ekoi Akponimisingha, ICPC’s Assistant Legal Officer.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thisdaylive.com | Adeyinka Salami |Emmanuel Addeh |Kingsley Nwezeh |Dike Onwuamaeze
•Breast, cervical cancer main cause of cancer-related death among Nigerian womenNdubuisi Francis in AbujaNigeria has advanced its national cancer control programme in the last decade and is making steady progress towards expanding care for millions of people, an international assessment has found. The country is strengthening institutional response, increasing resource allocation and building its oncology workforce and services to tackle its cancer burden, according to the review by imPACT.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thisdaylive.com | Adedayo Akinwale |Kingsley Nwezeh |Chuks Okocha |Ima Ekanem
*Says sizeable number of illegal arms originally belonged to governmentChuks Okocha and Linus Aleke in AbujaThe National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday, said the spread of illicit small arms and light weapons was a major threat to national security, which worsened insurgency, banditry, and other violent crimes. Ribadu spoke during an exercise for the destruction of illicit arms at Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment, Giri, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thisdaylive.com | Emmanuel Addeh |Chuks Okocha |Adeyinka Salami |Kingsley Nwezeh
Olawale Ajimotokan in AbujaThe organised labour, yesterday, declined to provide details of the outcome of its meeting with the federal government at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), in Abuja on the raging high cost of fuel nationwide. It was gathered that the thrust of the meeting was the recent increases in petrol price and its socio-economic effects on Nigerian masses.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
thisdaylive.com | Alex Enumah |Kingsley Nwezeh |Deji Elumoye
Onuminya InnocentFormer president Muhammadu Buhari and Senator Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari, have condoled former chairman of Economic and financial Crime Commission (EFCC), AbdulRasheed Bawa, over the death of his mother. Spokesperson for the family, Alhaji Ibrahim Yahaya Bawa, said Buhari had called the ex-EFCC boss from London to sympathise with him and the family.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
thisdaylive.com | Kuni Tyessi |Kingsley Nwezeh |Onuminya Innocent
Onuminya Innocent in SokotoThe Minister of State Defence, Mohamed Bello Matawalle, and other top military commanders have returned to Sokoto to lead another onslaught against bandits, terrorists and other criminals in Northwest states. THISDAY gathered that the initiative was part of President Bola Tinubu’s recent directives to the minister along with high ranking military personnel to relocate to Sokoto to flushout all the criminals terrorising the areas.
