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Nigeria faces starvation crisis as UN food programme runs out of money and supplies
Business Day
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July 6, 2025
More than a million people in Nigeria are at risk of starvation after the World Food Programme (WFP) announced it will run out of funds this month, following massive cuts to international aid. The UN agency, which serves as the last line of...
Group Urges Tinubu To Implement Sylva’s Renewable Energy Vision
New Telegraph
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July 6, 2025
A South-South-based advocacy group, Niger Delta Media Activists Group and Excellent Leadership Foundation, has called on President Bola Tinubu to implement the renewable energy vision of former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief...
France, Nigeria Reaffirm Commitment to Deepening Bilateral Cooperation
Arise News
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July 10, 2025
Nigeria and France have reaffirmed their commitment to deepening cooperation across trade, security, education, and culture, as both countries continue to explore mutual opportunities built on decades of strong diplomatic relations. The issues...
Boki/Ikom People Satisfied With My Representation – Hon. Abang
Daily Independent
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July 6, 2025
1 Hon Victor Abang, a gentleman politician and proactive leader, is the lawmaker representing Boki/Ikom Federal Constituency of Cross River State in the House of Representatives. Abang, a former Special Adviser to ex-Governor Ben Ayade on National...
Insecurity: Tinubu’s Vacation Abroad Sign Of Insensitivity To Death Of Nigerians – Obi
Daily Independent
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June 29, 2025
1 ….Says President Just Returned From Holiday In Lagos ……President Going To Caribbean But Couldn’t Visit Disaster Sites In Niger, Benue …….Reverse Your Indifference To Sufferings of Poor Nigerians, Obi Tells Tinubu ABUJA: Amid growing insecurity...
IUCN launches LOGMe II to scale up land restoration, livelihood interventions
Ghana News Agency
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July 4, 2025
By Anthony Adongo Apubeo Bolgatanga, July 4, GNA – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched Phase II of Ghana version of its flagship land restoration sustainable livelihood intervention project, LOGMe II, in...
In memory - Dr Mannava V.K. Sivakumar
World Meteorological Organization
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July 11, 2025
Dr Mannava V.K. Sivakumar was born on 30th August 1950 in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He passed away on 29 March 2025 at the age of 74 in Hyderabad, India. Dr Sivakumar graduated in Agricultural Science from Agriculture College, Bapatla, which...
Oye Seeks Support for Women, Youth-led Enterprises to Drive Economic Growth
This Day
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July 11, 2025
Oluchi Chibuzor President of the Nigerian-Turkish Business Council, Dele Kelvin Oye, Esq., has called for increased support for women and youth-led enterprises in Nigeria, describing them as key drivers of inclusive economic growth and national...
Troops foil ₦3.5bn oil theft, recover 2.38 million litres of stolen crude oil.
Business Day
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July 5, 2025
Nigerian troops have foiled oil theft operations valued at over ₦3.5 billion in the Niger Delta, recovering a staggering 2.38 million litres of stolen crude oil. The operation, conducted between April and June 2025 under the ongoing campaign to...
Nigeria’s Security Architecture Turns the Tide
Equity Media
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July 10, 2025
In May 2023, as Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office as President of Nigeria, the nation stood at a precarious juncture. Its landscape had become pockmarked by a constellation of crises: insurgency in the North-East, rampant banditry across the...
How KIKE Technologies Green Energy Network Is Empowering Women With Clean Biofuel Solutions
Daily Independent
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July 11, 2025
1 Lilian Aremu, Vice President of Operation Green Energy Biofuels and Co-Founder of Kike Technologies, is a social entrepreneur and transformational leader. In this interview with SEYI TAIWO-OGUNTUASE, she speaks on the organisation’s pioneering...
Agbejule’s in Cold Blood debuts on Amazon
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 12, 2025
“MY admiration for thriller and mystery stories inspired me to write this novel, titled, In Cold Blood,” says young and talented writer, Agbejule Stella. Set in Nigeria, the novel revolves around the life of Funke, a young, beautiful and...
The Sahel Alliance supports Morocco's Atlantic Initiative for African development
Atalayar
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July 4, 2025
Morocco as a key partner for African development and integration The foreign ministers of the Sahel Alliance, which brings together Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, praised Morocco's leadership in promoting sustainable development in Africa at the...
Sahel nations unite under new agricultural seed alliance to strengthen food security
Business Insider Africa
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July 4, 2025
The AES - Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have come together to create the Alliance of Agricultural Seed Producers of the Sahel (APSA-Sahel), with the aim of strengthening regional food sovereignty and promoting locally adapted seed systems tailored...
NCRI releases Africa’s first Zinc Biofortified rice seeds
Daily Trust
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The National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI), Badeggi, Niger State, has handed over the first phase of early-generation seeds of Zinc biofortified FARO 71 and FARO 72 rice varieties to HarvestPlus. HarvestPlus is part of the International Food...
Commentary: Why Trump’s Africa summit matters more than you think
Orlando Sentinel - Florida
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July 10, 2025
As five African heads of state meet with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., this week, it’s not just the summit’s agenda that deserves attention — but what it reveals about a reshaped American foreign policy. Beneath the headlines,...
Wike Demands Tinubu Releases NDDC Audit, Alleges Amaechi’s Wife Mismanaged N4bn
Daily Independent
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July 4, 2025
2 ABUJA – Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr. Nyesom Wike, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to release the long-awaited forensic audit report of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), alleging it will expose how the...
Fifty years since Gowon’s overthrow
Tribune Online
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July 10, 2025
TUESDAY, July 29,2025 will be the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon GCFR. He was overthrown in a bloodless military coup on the same Tuesday, July 29, 1975. Most of us remember where we were at 6.00 a.m. on Tuesday, July...
PIA: Host Communities Get N98 Billion, $150 Million under HCDF
This Day
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July 3, 2025
•NUPRC vows to sanction producers undermining climate-action initiative Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Host oil communities in the Niger Delta have so far received N98 billion as well as $150 million as their 3 per cent share of the Host Communities...
Warning issued as 'drunken' seagulls pose risk to drivers
Daily Mail
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July 4, 2025
By SHANNON MCGUIGAN Published: 07:03 EDT, 4 July 2025 | Updated: 07:06 EDT, 4 July 2025 Drivers have been warned to keep an eye on the skies for 'drunken' seagulls flying in a disorientated state. Animal rescue organisation, Sompting Wildlife,...