Coalition of Civic rights organizations have called on Nigerians to take part in peaceful protests and demonstrations on October 1, 2024 to end what they describe as excruciating economic hardship, poverty, and hunger, which they attributed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s implementation of IMF/World Bank-inspired capitalist policies.
Not long ago, a lion killed a veterinary technologist, Mr. Olabode Olawuyi working at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU)’s Zoo, Ile-Ife, Osun State. A new story has emerged on how another lion attacked and killed its handler at the Obasanjo Presidential Library, Ogun State barely six months later.
President Bola Tinubu has appointed Ambassador Haruna Ginsau (Jigawa) and Prof Abdullahi Shehu Ma’aji (Kano) as the chairman Governing Board and Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the North-West Development Commission (NWDC) and their names along with the members of the inaugural Governing Board of NWDC forwarded to the Senate for confirmation.
The Niger Republic junta has ordered the country’s Arm Forces to return to the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) after pulling out a year ago in the aftermath of toppling democracy in July 2023, abandoning the cooperation, following a threat to invade the country by the President Bola Tinubu-led Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).