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Civil society groups, under the aegis of the Civil Society Joint Action Group, said 17,469 Nigerians were abducted under the Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu administrations from 2019 to date. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the Civil Society Joint Action Group, revealed that 2,423 persons had been killed, while 1,872 others had been abducted since the inauguration of President Tinubu. Speaking on behalf of the group, the Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative and Advocacy Centre, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, said insecurity had persisted over the last three administrations, with 24,816 Nigerians killed and 15,597 persons abducted…
The Red Sea, a vital shipping lane, is under attack – what are the alternatives? You can see exactly where the drone attack hit. Just look for the grisly black scorch marks staining the ship's white paint. On 17 January, the MV Genco Picardy, a US-owned bulk carrier, became the latest victim of Houthi rebel assaults on commercial ships sailing through the Red Sea. One of the world's busiest shipping lanes is now, surely, the most dangerous. Since November, Yemen's Houthi rebel group has targeted vessels passing through the strait of Bab al-Mandab, a 20 mile (32km) wide channel that…
Many citizens are taking to self-help to combat the recent spike in kidnapping and killings across the country, especially in the urban centres. Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory as well as Taraba, Kaduna, Borno, Katsina and Plateau states, who spoke to our correspondents, said they were making life-changing adjustments, including forming neighbourhood guards and vigilantes, to be able to resist the criminals who had shattered their peace and caused them unprecedented loss. In the FCT alone, over 200 violent attacks have been recorded across the six area councils since President Bola Tinubu assumed office on May 29, 2023.…
•Regret that no President has been decisive with military and consequences of their failure since 1999•Want definitive order to security chiefs•Say current strategies weak, already known to terrorists, bandits Following the spate of killings and kidnappings across the country, Saturday Vanguard got some retired generals of the Nigerian military to bare their minds on the unending menace and what should be done to tackle the scourge. The retired Generals and their equivalent in the Navy and Airforce agreed to speak only on conditions of anonymity. we obliged them. One retired Airforce Generals said: “One of the reasons insecurity is not…
“Do you think that every fingerprint is actually unique?” It’s a question that a professor asked Gabe Guo during a casual chat while he was stuck at home during the Covid-19 lockdowns, waiting to start his freshman year at Columbia University. “Little did I know that conversation would set the stage for the focus of my life for the next three years,” Guo said. Guo, now an undergraduate senior in Columbia’s department of computer science, led a team that did a study on the subject, with the professor, Wenyao Xu of the University of Buffalo, as one of his coauthors.…
Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been hacked away to make room for cocoa bound for places like Europe and the U.S. Kehinde Kumayon and his assistant clear low bushes that compete for sunlight with their cocoa trees, which have replaced the lush and dense natural foliage. The farmers swing their machetes, careful to avoid the ripening yellow pods containing beans that will help create chocolate, the treat shoppers are snapping up for Christmas. Over the course of two visits…
Gary Fields Alfred King was lying in the parking lot of a small apartment building, mortally wounded when police in Alexandria, Louisiana, got to the intersection of 12th and Magnolia streets shortly before 1:30 a.m., Jan. 20. The 34-year-old was the first fatal shooting of 2023 in the small city where I grew up and a large portion of my family lives. Alfred’s death was similar to some I have covered since my first in 1985, a 38-year period when hundreds of thousands of people of all races and ethnicities have died violently in the U.S. I know the details…
This is the justification you need for your next nap. We are a nation of nappers. Dads ‘resting their eyes’ in front of the TV, commuters getting a quick 30 minutes in while heading home from work and young children needing to recharge their batteries. If there’s one thing we’re going to do, it’s sleep it off. In fact, according to Online-Bedrooms.co.uk, one in five of us have a nap lasting between 20-30 minutes every single day. Guilty. But, is it good for us? Should we be saving that sleep for our actual bedtime? Well, if you keep your naps…
It is part metaphor, part myth and part history. Thomas Hobbes thought life there was nasty, brutish and short. John Locke disagreed, proclaiming that it was where people first learnt how to own things. Jean-Jacques Rousseau described it as the place where people were born free, before they became ensnared in chains. Robert Nozick thought that people were so desperate to escape it, there was an inevitable result: the creation of a state. Ideas about the “state of nature”—how people lived before politics organised itself into governments—have held the attention of philosophers for centuries. Discovering whether it played out as…
The genes that boost fertility mean you're more likely to die younger, according to a new study. One of the puzzles of evolution is why we peter out into old age once we can no longer reproduce. Now, scientists believe that aging may actually be a consequence of how we evolved to reproduce, and it's all a result of natural selection over millions of years. A study analyzing the genes of 276,406 UK Biobank participants found that people carrying gene variances promoting reproduction are less likely to survive to old age. "We confirm a hypothesis called the antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis,…
March 25, 2025

Jet fuel from Nigeria's Dangote refinery hits US market

U.S. jet fuel imports are set to hit a two-year high in March after Nigeria's…
March 25, 2025

Democracy dying in Nigeria, Obasanjo, Obi, others say

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election,…
March 24, 2025

The Shamrock principle: Why 3 is the magic number in leadership

Scott Hutcheson The best leaders don’t leave influence to chance. They structure their communication, decision-making,…
March 23, 2025

Mr Macaroni declines donations amid N500m debt revelation

Popular comedian and activist, Mr Macaroni, has clarified that he is not seeking financial assistance…
March 24, 2025

Bandits ambush, kill 10 security personnel in Zamfara

Tragedy struck in Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara State as six operatives of the…
March 25, 2025

What to know after Day 1125 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukrainian artillery attack kills three Russian journalists, regional head says A Ukrainian artillery…
March 25, 2025

Eating this fruit could lower depression risk, study shows

Kloe Quill The gut has long been linked to overall health, underscoring the importance of…
January 08, 2025

NFF appoints new Super Eagles head coach

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Éric Sékou Chelle as the new Head Coach…

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