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Senate Set to Screen new INEC Chairman, Amupitan Today The Senate will today (Thursday) screen  Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan for the position of Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The announcement was contained in a circular issued on Wednesday by the Director of Information for the Senate, Bullah ...

    The Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics has debunked rumours that its members are on strike.   The association clarified its position in a statement jointly signed by its President, Dr Nosa Lancy-Orhue; Secretary-General, Dr Abdulrahman Shehu; and National Liaison Officer/Organising Secretary, Dr Muhammad Askira, on Wednesday ...

    Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina on Tuesday dissolved the national assembly, pre-empting an opposition-led vote to force him out of office over the island nation’s spiralling political crisis.   Rajoelina has faced over two weeks of deadly street clashes, led largely by young demonstrators furious with the ruling elite, ...

        The Joint Task Force Operation Enduring Peace has dismissed as “propaganda” a viral video in which a clergyman, identified as Rev. Dachomo, alleged a mass mobilisation of Fulani fighters through Nyerwai village in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, Plateau State, and accused security forces of collusion. ...

      No fewer than 117 beneficiaries from northern Nigeria have departed for Algeria to pursue various academic programmes under a fully funded study scholarship facilitated by the Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi Foundation.   Speaking during a send-forth and orientation ceremony organised for the beneficiaries in Bauchi, the Chairman ...

    Air France said Tuesday it would extend the suspension of its flights to Madagascar at least until Friday because of unrest in the African country.   “The resumption of operations will remain subject to a daily assessment of the situation on the ground,” the French national airline told ...

      US President Donald Trump landed in Israel aboard Air Force One on Monday as a first group of Israeli hostages returned home from Gaza after two years’ captivity.   The US leader was greeted on a red carpet at Ben Gurion airport by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin ...

      The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested five youths for allegedly conducting an illegal marriage ceremony without parental consent.   The Deputy Commander General of the board, Dr Mujahideen Aminuddeen, disclosed this in a statement he issued in Kano on Monday.   He said those arrested included ...

    The World Health Organisation sounded the alarm on Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering minor injuries and common infections potentially deadly.   The United Nations’ health agency warned that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections worldwide in 2023 ...

      Hamas handed over the first seven of 20 surviving Israeli hostages to Red Cross representatives in Gaza on Monday, sparking cheers of joy in Tel Aviv, where a huge crowd was gathered to support hostage families.   Under a ceasefire agreement brokered by US President Donald Trump ...