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Group Calls For Public Genotype Awareness

21.10.2025
A Non-Governmental Organization, The True-Life Projects Africa (TTLP Africa), has called for increased public participation in sickle cell disease awareness, genotype screening, and policy advocacy across Africa to reduce the high burden of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), especially in Nigeria. The Executive Director of TTLP Africa, Dr. Elijah Adodo, made the call during a month-long...
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Nigeria Requires $34.5bn To Electrify All Households By 2030

21.10.2025
Nigeria needs an estimated $34.5 billion to achieve universal household electrification by 2030, according to Exhibition Director of Informa Markets, Ade Yesufu. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos ahead of the Nigeria Energy Leadership Summit, scheduled for October 20–30, 2025, at the Landmark Convention Centre, Yesufu said the investment is crucial to bridging Nigeria’s...
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Diri Tasks UN On Protection Of River Deltas

21.10.2025
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has urged the United Nations to institutionalise the protection of the world’s deltas, including Nigeria’s Niger Delta, through a convention. The governor stated this against the backdrop of increasing threats from erosion, pollution, flooding as well as shrinking salt marshes and mangroves to the world’s 25 deltas. His spokesperson, Mr....
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Seadogs Urges FG To End Suppression Of Peaceful Protests

21.10.2025
Five years after the historic #EndSARS protests, the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) has called on the government to uphold citizens’ constitutional right to peaceful protest and end the recurring pattern of repression against legitimate civic demonstrations. In a statement yesterday by the NAS Cap’n, Dr Joseph Oteri, the association joined millions of Nigerians...
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Onitsha, Nnewi Residents’ Desert Roads In Solidarity

21.10.2025
The commercial city of Onitsha and the industrial town of Nnewi in Anambra State were completely shut down yesterday as residents complied with the #FreeNnamdiKanu protest that took place in Abuja yesterday. Although Mondays have long been observed as sit-athome days in the Southeast due to earlier directives by pro-Biafra groups, yesterday’s total lockdown was...
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Business Activities Crippled, Roads Deserted In Enugu

21.10.2025
Business and social activities were crippled in Enugu yesterday as residents stayed at home apparently in compliance with the sitat-hone order by the free Nnamdi Kanu protesters which fixed their protest for Abuja. Although, before now, some businesses normally shut on Mondays, but yesterday’s compliance was near total as banks and schools shut their doors....
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Why We Deployed Teargas In Abuja –FHQ

21.10.2025
The Force Headquarters (FHQ), yesterday, justified police operatives’ resort to firing of teargas cannisters on protesters in Abuja, saying the move was to deter them from accessing the three-arms zone. This followed an order of court making the seat of power (Aso Rock), National Assembly, and other critical assets within the general area a red-line....
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Police Nab Three Suspected Drug Dealers In Jigawa

21.10.2025
The Jigawa State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three suspects for illegal drug dealing in the state. The State Command’s Spokesperson, SPShiisu Lawan, made this disclosure in a press statement issued on Tuesday, October 21 in Dutse. According to the statement, the operatives of the command apprehended the suspects on Saturday, October 18, at...
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