Day: August 22, 2025

DOUBTS OVER NIGER REPUBLIC CLAIMS THAT BOKO HARAM LEADER WAS KILLED

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The Niger’s army said its soldiers killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, but experts cast doubt over the unverified claim, as confirmed by Abidjan Agence France-Presse, on Friday Since Boko Haram’s insurgency to establish an Islamic caliphate in neighbouring northeast Nigeria began in 2009, the conflict has left 40,000 people dead and forced more than two million to flee their homes. The leader, Bakura, was killed during a “surgical operation” on an island in the Diffa region of southeast Niger last week,…

PRESIDENT TINUBU’s RENEWED HOPE AGENDA TRANSFORMS NIGERIA’s MARINE and BLUE ECONOMY — Shippers Council Chief

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The Executive Secretary/CEO of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Akutah Pius Ukeyima, Esq, MON, FCILT, Ph.D, said the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda has transformed the Industry, describing it as a catalyst for reform in Nigeria’s Marine and Blue Economy sector. Akutah, asserted during an oversight visit by the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, led by its Chairman, Distinguished Senator Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni, to the NSC headquarters in Lagos, on Thursday. He however, commended the President’s strategic vision and political will, which he said have laid the groundwork for sustainable…