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Update:: The Nigerian Military has suspended operations of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) from the North-East for allegedly sabotaging it counter-terrorism efforts. "(UNICEF has) abdicated its primary duty of catering for the wellbeing of children and the vulnerable through humanitarian activities and now engaged in training selected persons for clandestine activities to continue sabotaging the counter terrorism and Counter insurgency efforts of troops through spurious and unconfirmed allegations bothering on alleged violations of human rights by the military,” said the Army. Colonel and Deputy Director of Public Relations, Theatre Command,  Onyema Nwachukwu,  in a statement made available to pressmen on Friday threatened that  “this kind of sabotage from any individual, group of persons or organization will not be condoned”,  therefore, urged all NGOs and members of humanitarian agencies to keep to their legitimate norm...

Update:: Former Ethiopian president Girma Woldegiorgis died on Saturday, two weeks short of his 95th birthday, state media reported. Girma was president of Ethiopia for twelve years between 2001 to 2013, a largely ceremonial role. His death was reported by the Ethiopia Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) and other state media. The cause of death was not given. Girma was a fluent speaker in Ethiopia’s working language Amharic, his native language Afan Oromo as well as English and French. In recent years Girma had been active in efforts to foster reconciliation between former foes Ethiopia and Eritrea who declared an end to two decades of hostility in July. In a political career that spanned more than five decades, the man fondly known as Lieutenant Girma has been fortunate enough to live through and witness many momentous and significant period of the nation. Starting his career as head of civil aviation in Eritrea in 1955, he was appointed as director-general of Ethiop...

…Job creation, key to tackle insecurity, social vices — Peter Obi ABUJA —  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria suffered major infrastructural deficit in the 16 years of the Peoples Democraty Party’s (PDP) rule. Okorocha, Ohakim have been 12yrs of trauma for Imo – Araraume He stated this on Friday in Abuja at the 2019 Vice Presidential Debate organised by the Nigeria Election Debate Group in collaboration with the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) and Civil Society Organisations. He added that corruption is the major cause of the country‘s current challenges which must be tackled head-on. He argued that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product had consistently gone up under the All Progressives Congress (APC) led administration which he added was building the country‘s infrastructure, especially the road and rail sector. While acknowledging issues of poverty in the county, Osinbajo said the administration’s social investment programmes were put in place to ad...

Update:: The Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole has suspended the operations of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the Northeast theatre, until further notice. A statement yesterday by Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, yesterday said UNICEF is sabotaging the counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency efforts of troops through spurious and unconfirmed allegations bothering on alleged violation of human rights by the military. Nwachukwu added that the organization has abdicated its primary duty of catering for the wellbeing of children and the vulnerable through humanitarian activities and is now engaged in training selected persons for clandestine activities to frustrate the efforts of the Nigerian military. He said: “Theatre Command Operation LAFIYA DOLE has observed with dismay that some of the activities of International Humanitarian Agencies and non-governmental organisations operating in th...