The Director of the Defence Media Operations at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Major General Edward Buba, has confirmed that 36 officers were killed in Niger state.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
ASHENEWS, reports that due to the absence of the first and second defendants, as a result of ill-health, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has postponed the arraignment of the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele to August 23.
ASHENEWS reports that the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) on Thursday 17th August 2023 commissioned a 100% Solar-powered Electric Vehicle Charging Station at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN).
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assigned portfolios to minister-designates, as former Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, and Lateef Fagbemi SAN are now ministers of Federal Capital Territory and Justice, respectively.
ASHENEWS reports that the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja has visited the Forward Operating Base Erena in Shiroro local government area of Niger state.
Facts have emerged that the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) helicopter that crashed in Chukuba village of Shiroro local government area of Niger state, was nit a fighter jet but an evacuation helicopter, which was on a mission to convey injured troops to the Military Hospital in Kaduna.
ASHENEWS reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has condoled the families of the officers and soldiers who lost their lives in NAF helicopter crash in Niger state.
As the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) seeks support to invade Niger Republic if the military junta fails to reinstate ousted Mohamed Bazoum, the prime minister, appointed by the General Abdourahamane Tchiani-led junta, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, on Tuesday, visited neighbouring Chad.
In Nigeria, each doctor has an average of 5,000 patients, whereas the OECD average is around 270 patients per doctor.
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