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NIGERIA'S ongoing security crisis took another turn for the worse yesterday when bandits invaded a housing estate at Kofar Gayan low-cost area in Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna state kidnapping two people.

NIGERIAN government officials have given up on plans to resuscitate the Ajaokuta Steel Company before the end of the Buhari tenure saying the ingoing Russian-Ukrainian war has derailed the objective that was already threatened by the Covid-19 lockdown.

FORMER president Dr Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the offer out to him by some of President Muhammadu Buhari's close associates who were offering him the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next year's elections.

NIGERIA continues to reel from the effects of violent insecurity as armed bandits struck again yesterday attacking Abuja from the Suleija-Zuma axis in Niger Stare in a bloody attack that left six soldiers and two officers dead.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Across sub-Saharan Africa, it is estimated that about 20m children walk about barefoot

[2] In Nigeria, we so not have precise figures but with about 80m people living below the poverty line, you can just imagine how many barefoot kids we have walking around the country

AMERICAN consular officials have flagged off the construction of their $537m new building to be constructed at Eko Atlantic City in Lagos in an ambitious development plan that will see them build the largest US mission in the world in Nigeria.

EBELECHUKWU Obiano the former first lady of Anambra State has officially apologised to Governor Charles Soludo for the altercation that took place on the day of his inauguration between herself and Mrs Bianca Ojukwu.

NIGERIAN information technology company SoftTech IT Solutions and Services and its managing director Isah Kantigi has been sanctioned by the World Bank for engaging in corrupt practices.

FORMER Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) managing director Andrew Yakubu has been acquitted by an Abuja high court of a $9.8m corruption charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

CIVIL society group the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (Huriwa) has asked the federal government to arrest controversial Islamic cleric Sheikh Abubakar Gumi over the recent Kaduna train attack by terrorists.