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Minister advocates innovative funding model for agric sector
Punch
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August 19, 2025
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Mohammed Kyari, has called for a rethinking of the financing model for the agric sector to achieve food sovereignty. Kyari made this call on Tuesday at the 2025 FirstBank Agric and Export Conference,...
Erdogan uses Turkish NGOs to project power, advance political Islamist goal
Nordic Monitor
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August 19, 2025
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A letter signed by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan sheds light on how Ankara systematically leverages nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) abroad to advance its foreign policy agenda and promote divisive Islamist...
Bye-Election: INEC To Present Certificates Of Return To Winners Thursday, Friday
New Telegraph
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August 19, 2025
Following the conclusion of Saturday bye-elections and two re-run conducted nationwide, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said it will present Certificates of Return to candidates who emerged victorious. This was...
By-election winners get Certificates of Return Thursday – INEC
Punch
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August 20, 2025
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that winners of last Saturday’s by-elections across 12 states will receive their Certificates of Return on Thursday, August 21. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information...
Taking land by force and the limitations of law
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 20, 2025
Several centuries later, the aforementioned Thucydidean quote from The Melian Dialogue is a hawkish exposition of the warring vicissitudes of insatiability, power, and annexation or forcible land acquisition, that remains relevant in contemporary...
Niger Police Arrest Four Over Truck Theft On Kaduna-Abuja Expressway
Information Nigeria
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August 19, 2025
The Niger State Police Command has arrested four individuals for allegedly conspiring to steal a truck along the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway in Dikko, Suleja. In a statement released to journalists in Minna on Monday, the Police Public Relations...
INEC To Present Certificates Of Return To Election Winners, Reschedules Zamfara’s Inconclusive Poll To Thursday
Leadership
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August 19, 2025
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it will present certificates of return to winners of last Saturday’s by-elections and re-run polls across 12 States of the Federation. While the presentation for the National...
Ex-Benin Republic International Omotoyossi Dies
Complete Sports
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August 19, 2025
Former Cheetahs of Benin Republic star striker Razak Omotoyossi has passed away at the age of 39. Razak Omotoyossi’s death was confirmed by his former Swedish club Helsingborgs. “Helsingborgs IF is in mourning,” the club said in a statement on...
8,900 students in North-West benefited from education loans: Minister
Peoples Gazette
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August 19, 2025
About 8,971 students at federal universities in the North-West zone have benefitted from the Federal Government’s Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). The scheme was introduced to expand access to higher education and reduce the financial...
INEC Fixes August 21 By-Election In Zamfara After Violence Disrupts Polls
Sahara Reporters
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has scheduled Thursday, August 21, 2025, for a by-election in five polling units that were disrupted by “violence/emergency” during the August 16, 2025, by-election in Kaura Namoda South State...
Sani: Military Alone Can’t Defeat Violent Extremism, Terrorism
The Nigerian Voice
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Sani: Military Alone Can’t Defeat Violent Extremism, Terrorism •Says poverty, governance failures must be fixed•NCTC-ONSA, PAVE Network call for regional, inclusive approach Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, has warned that military and law...
INEC to present Certificates of Return to by-elections, re-run polls winners
Punch
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August 19, 2025
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced plans to present Certificates of Return to candidates who emerged victorious in the 16 by-elections and two court-ordered re-run elections conducted nationwide on Saturday, August 16,...
INEC to issue certificates of return to by-election winners Thursday
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 19, 2025
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that Certificates of Return will be presented to winners of the just-concluded by-elections across the country on Thursday, August 21, 2025. National Commissioner and Chairman,...
13% derivation legal battle: Coalition of Niger state support groups back government
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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August 19, 2025
A Coalition of Niger state support groups has thrown its weight behind the state government’s legal action against the Attorney-General of the Federation over exclusion of the state from the 13 per cent derivation The President General of...
Ethiopia: Where Political Power Grows From the Barrel of a Gun
CovertAction Magazine
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August 19, 2025
[Source: bbc.com] There is a brutal civil war being waged in Ethiopia where political power grows from the barrel of a gun. On one side is the Western-backed corrupt, brutal regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, he who was bestowed the 2019 Nobel...
Nigeria News31 minutes ago INEC To Issue Certificates Of Return To Bye-Election Winners The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced plans to present Certificates of Return to winners of federal legislative seats in last…
Naija News
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August 19, 2025
INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. “In line with Section 72(1) of the Electoral Act 2022, INEC will present Certificates of...
By-elections: INEC fixes date to present Certificates of Return to winners
Daily Post
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August 19, 2025
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed a date for the presentation of Certificates of Return to the winners of Saturday’s bye-elections. According to the Commission, this is in compliance with the provision of Section 72(1)...
INEC’s by-elections and lessons not learnt
The Cable
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August 19, 2025
The by-elections held across the country last Saturday in 16 constituencies across 12 states, in terms of the organization, the process and outcomes would seem to confirm one painful truth, namely that Nigeria’s democracy is still inchoate,...
Federal Government disburses education loans to nearly 9,000 North-West students
Alexa.ng
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The Federal Government has disbursed education loans to 8,971 students across federal universities in the North-West zone under the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). Minister of Information and National Orientation, Muhammad Idris, disclosed...
Massacre de l'armée coloniale au Niger : derrière le mea culpa de Macron, la continuité d’un récit historique biaisé
The Conversation
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August 19, 2025
Le 19 juin 2025, le représentant permanent de la France auprès des Nations unies a reconnu que Paris était ouvert au dialogue avec le Niger et prêt à collaborer avec des chercheurs spécialisés afin de mettre en place une coopération patrimoniale...