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NIGERIAN Army commanders have declared three Unicef staff as persona non-grata following their criticism of the military operations in the northeast and claims that soldiers raped over 20 girls in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari confessed that had he not had the opportunity of going to school he might have been one of the irate Fulani youths participating in the ongoing attacks against farmers across Nigeria's Middle Belt.

SENATOR Dino Melaye's brother Samuel has been remanded in custody by an Abuja magistrates court along with three others after a judge upheld a police complaint that they were trying to uphold the dispensation of justice.

NIGERIA'S National Economic Council (NEC) has recommended a ban on the movement of herdsmen across the country as a way of stopping the incessant killings being carried by Fulani pastoralists.

WASHINGTON has just published damning assessment of Nigeria in its 2017 Country Report on Human Rights detailing a catalogue of terrible abuses in the fight against corruption and a lack of transparency in general.

VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has described the recent killings of Christians in a Catholic church in Benue State by suspected Fulani cattle herdsmen as sacrilegious pointing out that only devilish people can murder in a place of worship.

POWER and works minister Babatunde Fashola has expressed doubts about Nigeria's preparedness for a post-crude oil economy stating that the country is still fixated on living off the proceeds of raw petroleum exports.

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) chairman Prince Uche Secondus has secured a high court injunction preventing information minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed from naming him among the list of looters published by the federal government.

SAUDI Arabian authorities are threatening to block Nigerian pilgrims from attending this year’s hajj exercise because of reports of a Lassa Fever outbreak in Nigeria which they fear could spread if they visit the holy land.

FORMER Super Eagles head coach Samson Siasia has applied for the vacant job of Cameroonian manager joining the long list of 77 candidates hoping to manage the Indomitable Lions.