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Tunisia extends 5-year-old state of emergency

The Tunisian presidency on Friday announced a six-month extension of the country’s state of emergency, in place since a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus claimed by the Islamic State group. President Kais Saied “decided on the six-month extension of the nationwide state of emergency, from December 26, 2020, …

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Politics behind banditry in Northeast states

There were three grievous aspects of the recent mass abduction of 334 students of Government Science School, Kankara, Katsina State: The bandits fetched that number of boys with minimal resistance. They ferried the students across the state boundary without Nigeria’s security intercepting them. Thereafter, officials of the state government went …

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A’Ibom community tackles Mobil over ‘paltry’ development grant

The people of Eastern Obolo Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State have appealed to ExxonMobil Nigeria to increase its annual development grant to the area from “the paltry sum of N250 million to N1.6 billion” as obtained in other of its host communities. Chairman, Eastern Obolo Traditional Rulers Council, …

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