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Title: World Bank Urges Nigeria to Restore Public Trust Through Better Service Delivery

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The World Bank has issued a compelling call to action for Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African nations, urging governments to focus on rebuilding public trust by improving essential service delivery. This was highlighted in its 2025 Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report released earlier this month. According to the report, many African citizens have grown increasingly disillusioned with their governments due to poor access to vital services such as education, healthcare, electricity, water supply, and public administration. In Nigeria, these failures are especially visible in underfunded schools, overcrowded hospitals, and unreliable infrastructure. The World Bank noted that while some African countries are making progress in macroeconomic management and social inclusion, the biggest setback remains weak governance. The lack of transparency, inefficiency in public institutions, and a slow response to citizens’ needs have worsened the trust gap between government...
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Tinubu lauds six Nigerians for winning prestigious US science award

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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday praised six Nigerian researchers and specialists who were named among the 400 beneficiaries of the Official Early Vocation Grant for Researchers and Architects (PECASE) by U.S. President Joe Biden. The current year's awardees, declared by President Joe Biden on January 14, 2025, are utilized or subsidized by 14 taking an interest US government offices. The Nigerian honourees incorporate Azeez Butali, Gilbert Lilly Enriched Teacher of Analytic Sciences, School of Dentistry, College of Iowa; Ijeoma Opara, Associate Professor Of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Yale School of Public Health, Yale University; and Oluwatomi Akindele, Postdoctoral reseacher at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Others are Eno Ebong, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biology at Northeastern College; Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Assistant Professor of computer science at Stanford College; and Abidemi Ajiboye, Executive vice chair of the Cas...
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FG Says No End To National Grid Collapses In Nigeria

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  The national electricity grid will remain prone to collapse due to the government’s inability to repair a crucial transmission line in northern Nigeria owing to persistent insecurity. This is as indicated by the minister of Power , Adebayo Adelabu, who talked during the 2025 financial plan protection meeting with the Senate Joint Comittee on Power. Adelabu featured the effect of the harmed Shiroro-Kaduna-Mando line, which has been unavailable since a defacing episode in October 2024. This disappointment has put huge tension on the network, prompting incessant breakdowns. "The Kaduna-Shiroro-Mando line was one of the two significant lines communicating capacity toward the north. The second, the Ugwuaji-Makurdi line, was likewise vandalized however has been fixed. The Shiroro-Mando-Kaduna line, notwithstanding, stays down because of uncertainty," he said on Monday. “This is why our grid is so fragile, as it relies on a single line, causing unnecessary strain.” The minister un...
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16 Regular Folks Killed in Nigerian Military Blunder

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No less than 16 regular people were killed in a tactical air strike in the northwestern Nigerian territory of Zamfara after a pilot confused nearby self-protection powers with groups of hoodlums, occupants told AFP on Sunday. The occurrence was the second dangerous unplanned airstrike to target regular folks since the December 25 besieging of two towns in a strike focusing on jihadists in adjoining Sokoto state. Nigeria's military has been battling groups of thugs, referred to locally as outlaws, who have long threatened networks in northwestern and focal Nigeria. The contenders strike towns, kill and steal inhabitants for payoff and consume homes subsequent to stealing from them. Late on Saturday, a tactical stream hit a gathering of occupants who prepared from a few adjoining towns to face shooters who had gone after Dangebe town in Zurmi region, trucking away animals and consuming homes, occupants said. “The group was returning to their villages after chasing away the bandits wh...
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Police crush Uber drivers executioner packs, capture seven suspects in Lagos

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Recuperate disintegrated assemblage of killed Uber driver The Lagos State Police Order has destroyed burglary packs focusing on Uber drivers, capturing seven associated individuals with discrete groups. One of the packs, a four-man bunch, incorporated a US returnee who wounded a Uber rider to death trying to take his Toyota Camry, on Thursday, January 9, 2025. The suspects as per the Chief of Police Lagos State Police Order CP Olarewaju Ishola, , who advised columnists on the leap forwards recorded by the order between September 2024 and January 10, 2025, at the Order central command, yesterday, requested the ride on Thursday, January 9, 2025, at Chevron in Lekki region. ” Upon arriving at Obalende in a secluded area, they robbed and killed the Uber driver by stabbing him multiple times in the neck. Fortunately, they were unable to steal the vehicle, thanks to the intervention of good Samaritans and passersby. Two suspects were immediately arrested and handed over to police operatives ...
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Tinubu Approves $20,000 Medical Allowances, Bullet-Proof SUV, Others As Retirement Packages For Army Chiefs, Generals

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The approval was contained in the Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service for Officers and Enlisted Personnel in the Nigerian Armed Forces, signed by President Bola Tinubu on December 14, 2024. President Bola Tinubu has endorsed $20,000 in unfamiliar clinical treatment, impenetrable SUVs and cooks, among different advantages, as a retirement bundle for administration bosses and commanders. The endorsement was contained in the Blended Agreements of Administration for Officials and Enrolled Faculty in the Nigerian Military, endorsed by President Bola Tinubu on December 14, 2024. PUNCH reports that the Head of Safeguard Staff and other help bosses are qualified for an impenetrable SUV or its comparable as a retirement bundle. The rich vehicle is supposed to be supplanted like clockwork and kept up with by the military. As a reinforcement, a Peugeot 508 or a comparable vehicle is likewise accessible. Upon retirement, the commanders will likewise partake in a scope of other lavish advant...
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Nigerian Female ‘Leader Of International Trafficking Ring’ Wanted For Trafficking Girls To Dubai For Prostitution, Arrested At Abuja Airport

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Uadiale Christiana Jacob, otherwise known as Christy Evan Osagie, a needed sentenced pioneer for a worldwide illegal exploitation network has been captured by the Nigeria Migration Administration (NIS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Global Air terminal in Abuja. The socialite whose organization works across the Center Eastern nations with a functional base in the Unified Bedouin Emirates (UAE), was captured on December 31, 2024, on appearance from Dubai for new year festivity. The suspect, who is additionally allegedly called Christy Gold by her gangsters, has been on the needed rundown of the Public Organization for the Restriction of Dealing with People (NAPTIP) for the beyond five years. Vincent Adekoye, NAPTIP Press Official spread the word about this in a proclamation on Friday, noticing that karma abandoned her on December 31, 2024, as NIS officials acting in regard of NAPTIP's solicitation to put her on watchlist on February 22, 2023, caught her upon her appearance in Nigeria. The st...
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Imo Resident Allegedly Sets Ablaze Kinsman Over N25,000 Stolen Jeans, Family Seeks Justice

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The person in question, who was hauled out of a congregation on December 31, at Nnebugwu independent local area in Oguta LGA passed on from extreme consumes. A grievous episode has happened in Imo State, where a 35-year-old person, Chima Okafor, was purportedly set burning by his brother, Obinna Obiekea, and his relatives over a taken jean esteemed at N25,000. The person in question, who was hauled out of a congregation on December 31, at Nnebugwu independent local area in Oguta LGA passed on from extreme consumes. As per the casualty's dad, Uche Okafor, his child was going to a hybrid night chapel gathering when Obiekea and his relatives hauled him out, blamed him for taking the jean, and set him burning. In the mean time, the police have captured Obiekea and his child, Chidubem, while his better half, Nwamaka, and another child, Eloka, are currently at large. The case has been moved to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for additional test. The casualty's dad ...
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Nigeria Begins Screening of Passengers At Airports As China's HMPV Spreads To Several Countries

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  The infection has spread to nations like India, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Kazakhstan. In the midst of the flare-up of the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) as of late found in China and presently spreading to different nations, the Nigerian government has reinforced observation at significant global air terminals. The infection has spread to nations like India, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Kazakhstan. This move is a preventive one against the flare-up of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) as of late found in China. North of 5000 individuals were as of late revealed hospitalized in the United Kingdom because of the virus. Albeit the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) is yet to give a round on it particularly to carriers on the need to set up vital minds the travelers. As per Daily Trust, the Minister of Health, Muhammad Ali Pate, had guided port wellbeing officials to start to check showing up travelers for any side effect of the infection. During the episode of Coronavirus in 2020, Nigeria re...
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Be cautious of traveling to Australia, FG alerts Nigerians

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The Federal Government, through the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, has cautioned Nigerians wanting to venture out to Australia to be careful about the overall security circumstance in certain urban areas of the country. This was contained in a proclamation by the acting spokesperson of the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, on Tuesday in Abuja. The assertion said the admonition became basic because of announced instances of separation, badgering and boisterous attack designated at outsiders. As per the assertion, while Australia is for the most part known for its multiculturalism and resistance, occurrences of Islamophobia and discrimination against Jews have happened as of late in specific regions. It expressed that toward the beginning of December 2024, an upsetting occurrence happened in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, where a vehicle was set on fire and hostile to Israel spray painting was splashed on neighboring structures. It added that the occasion was essenti...
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Benin Republic, Niger enjoy smuggled fuel as Nigerians keep vigil at petrol stations

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While numerous Nigerians are keeping vigil at filling stations to fuel their vehicles, drivers in the adjoining nations of Benin Republic and Niger are getting a charge out of fuel snuck from Nigeria, a Saturday PUNCH examination has shown. Our journalists, who visited the two nations found that the snuck petroleum was being sold by dark advertisers, whose rates were less expensive than those working in filling stations. Discoveries show that drivers frequently belittle the dark advertisers on the grounds that their rates are less expensive than the people who purchase from the filling stations. Saturday PUNCH accumulated the higher worth of cefas (CFA) to naira made the Nigerian snuck fuel alluring to residents of the two nations. Nigeria is seeing the fifth significant fuel emergency since President Bola Tinubu accepted office on May 29, 2023, following his expulsion of the fuel appropriation. The evacuation prompted a sharp ascent in fuel costs, causing alarm purchasing, far and wid...
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  Legal troubles are on the horizon for blogger and philanthropist Olufunke Afeh, famously known as Angels Empire. Her forthcoming arraignment at the Federal High Court in Lagos on April 8 has garnered public interest regarding the details of her arrest, extended detention, and eventual release on bail. On February 19, 2025, SaharaReporters brought to light that the police had leveled 11 charges against Afeh, accusing her of various offenses, including cyberstalking and harassment of multiple individuals, notably Mr. Obidi Anthony and his daughters, Nancy Ume and Korra Obidi. The Angels Empire Foundation reported that Afeh was taken into custody on February 6, 2025, in Abuja. She had responded to a deceptive phone call from the Nigerian Police, which involved a false allegation of phone theft.  Once at the police station, Afeh was swiftly detained at the Force Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Abuja, where she was denied access to legal representation, and her mobile ...
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Anambra Boutique Owner Sues NAFDAC Over Claimed Theft of Merchandise During Onitsha Drug Market Operation

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  Sophia Eberechukwu Okoye, a young entrepreneur from Anambra State, who owns a boutique in Onitsha, has taken legal action against the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). She claims that soldiers allegedly deployed by the agency looted her store during a raid at the Onitsha drug market, popularly known as Ogbo Ogwu. In a notice of legal action issued by her legal representative, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor of I. C. Ejiofor & Co. law firm, Ms. Okoye is seeking N22 million in compensation, which she asserts is the verified value of the goods taken from her shop. Reports indicate that Ms. Okoye expressed her distress after losing goods valued at over N15 million due to the purported looting by the soldiers. Her boutique, which had opened just a few months prior, was one of many shops that were reportedly broken into and ransacked during the operation. Sources reveal that the thieves stole clothes, shoes, and other valuable items from the boutique, le...
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