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 ​ Civil Society Organization, Africa Arise for Change Network has expressed optimism that the militay will rescue more of the Chibok Girls from their Boko Haram captors in the days ahead. The group also demanded an apology from former President Goodluck Jonathan and Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose for leading a propaganda to make Nigerians think that the Chibok girls saga was a hoax. Addressing journalists in Abuja, National Coordinator of the group, Nkechi Odoma commended the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and the military for the sustained onslaught against the insurgents and the rescue of two chibok girls. She blamed the long captivity of the girls on the failure of the former administration to take immediate action after the girls were abducted from their school. She said, “In 2014, when over 200 girls were abducted from their school in Chibok, Borno State, the wife of the then President, Dame Patience Jonathan released that blockbuster of “Na only

The Institute of Human Virology, IHVN, and Access Bank Plc, yesterday, unveiled plans to establish a N5 billion world class Medical Research Centre for infectious and non infectious diseases on Nigerian soil. Some of the diseases expected to be researched into include HIV&AIDS, tuberculosis, Lassa fever, cancer, among others. The centre will be under the leadership of Professor Alash’le G. Abimiku, a distinguished scientist and will be used to create an enabling environment for creative thinking and innovation in science to address Nigeria’s and global health priorities. Making the announcement at a press conference in Lagos on the collaboration with Access Bank, IHVN, and Dangote Foundation to raise N5 billion for the centre, Chief Executive Officer of IHVN, Dr. Patrick Dakum, said the building of the centre would improve the management of infectious diseases that had continued to ravage communities across the country. “Nigerians have been victims of many disease outbreaks

     The Coalition of Civil Society Against Corrupt Persons in Nigeria has berated the Comrade Ayuba Wabba-led faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC and its Civil Society Organisations allies over what it described as failed protests against the increase in the price of petrol, saying it shows they are out of tune with the thinking and yearnings of Nigerians.          A statement by the coalition’s National President, Linus Ejilogo, on Friday, said the days when labour leaders ride on popular demands to blackmail and extort the government for personal interests are over. The statement accused Labour and its CSO allies of working with elements of the past administration to make the incumbent government look bad by sabotaging its efforts at remedying the mess it inherited. It declared that “Labour’s inability to accept that Nigerians refuse to join the bandwagon by a cross section of self-serving labour and CSO leaders to further compound the current economic hardship is un

      Governors of the 36 states of the federation are seeking to access about $3.2 billion from the World Bank to curtail the fiscal challenges facing them. The revelation was made, yesterday ,by the Governors’ Forum after a meeting with officials of the bank at Presidential Villa in Abuja, Wednesday night. The meeting was convened by the Nigeria Governors Forum. Chairman of the forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, told journalists that the forum decided to invite the Country Director of World Bank, Rachid Benmessaoud, to brief them on the money in the World Bank which largely belonged to state governments but could not access. Yari said because of the cumbersome procedure in accessing the funds, most of the governors did not even know they had such funds in the bank. He said it was Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, who sold the idea to his colleagues to invite World Bank officials to educate the governors to know that this mony is there, especially i