26 people were said to have died in a boat mishap while attempting to flee a terrorist attack in Birnin-waje village, Bukkuyum local government area, Zamfara State.
According to Musa Sani, an indigene of the village, the incident occurred when the people of the village, who were attacked by terrorists last Wednesday night, were...
The Nigeria Police Force, Zamfara State Command, rescued 12 kidnap victims from a bandits' den on Tuesday.
Our correspondent learned that the rescued victims were abducted by armed bandits and taken to the Kare Kukanka forest, a bandit camp led by a notorious leader known as Bello Maibille.
According to a reliable police source, a...
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With Nigeria currently going through a dark hour, I believe it is time for the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to stand up and be counted. I have singled the ACF out because most of the hopelessness we are currently witnessing is in their backyard and their region offers the most potential too
One thing I love about...
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With Nigeria currently going through a dark hour in which armed violence reigns supreme across northern Nigeria, economic growth is lagging way behind population increases, millions of youths simply have no future and there is no industrial plan on the horizon, I believe it is time for associations like the Arewa...
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This is a picture of a German train being sabotaged by French resistance fighters in 1944. In many cases, German military trains were blown up while in the engine shed before they could be deployed to the war front
Like all other resistance fighters across Europe, the French partisans could not match the Nazi military...
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Do you know that the global prosthetic limb industry will be worth $13.12bn by 2028?
The increasing number of populations along with rising incidences of diabetes among children and the geriatric population are some of the growth drivers
According to the World Health Organisation, between 20m and 50m people...
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A 10,000MW hydro-electric power plant at the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue in Lokoja
An 830km coastal wind farm stretching from Badagry to Calabar
A 5,000MW gas-fired plant in Bonny
An Usman Dan Fodio Solar farm stretching across Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states
An El-Kanemi Solar Farm stretching across...
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A Bonny to Port Harcourt 44km suspension bridge
A 1km Asaba to Onitsha underwater aquarium
Africa’s first underwater restaurant in Lekki
A rebuilt Tower of Babel in Adamawa along the border with Cameroon
A West African Serengeti in Taraba State
The world’s largest cattle ranch at Sambisa Forest in Borno...
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As Nigeria desperately searches around for potential sources of revenue, can someone please tell me why we have not thought about horses? A horse costs about $2,000 on the open market, so just imagine the revenue we would generate if we exported say 3m of them
Apparently there are 240,000 horses in Nigeria with the...
NIGERIA'S federal government has eventually declared the armed bandits who have been holding the nation to ransom with their murderous campaign as terrorists making them subject to international terror laws.
Over recent years, these bandit have laid waste to large swathes of northwestern Nigeria, especially, Zamfara, Katsina...
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