Day: October 22, 2017

Lagos PDP mourns caretaker chairman

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Some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday described the death of the party ‘s Caretaker Chairman in Lagos State, Chief Babatunde Solanke, as shocking. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Solanke died on Saturday at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital after slumping in a hotel in Ikeja. The deceased had scheduled a meeting with some chieftains of the party in the state on the fateful day. He has been buried in his hometown, Abeokuta, Ogun. NAN reports that the deceased was appointed the caretaker chairman…

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3.4m suffer malnutrition in North-East

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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) says about 3.4 million people need nutrition assistance due to food crisis caused by Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. This is contained in the UN-OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report for the month of September. OCHA explained that 2.7 million people were targeted for immediate intervention, adding that only 936,200 people were reached with nutrition support within the period under review. The report indicates that three Stabilization Centres (SC) were set up at Damboa, Dikwa and Ngala Local Government Areas…

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Opposition party aware of my achievements – Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari, says his government has degraded the Boko Haram insurgents to the point that even “the opposition party” recognised that there was a considerable improvement of security in the North-East since he assumed power. Buhari said this during a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Shahid Khakan Abbasi of Pakistan, on the sidelines of the ninth D-8 summit in Istanbul, Turkey. This was contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. The statement quoted the president as telling the Pakistani Prime Minister…

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