Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, has said that inter-ethnic harmony and cooperation is critical to the development aspirations of the state government. Wike said this in a keynote address at the 211th convention of Ogbakor Ikwerre cultural organisation worldwide in Rumuche, Emohua local government area of the state. The governor, according to a statement by Simeon Nwakaudu, his special assistant on [...]
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Nigeria has now been adjudged the least peaceful country in West Africa and the 11th least peaceful country in the world for 2015, ranking 151st of the 162 countries reviewed in the Global Peace Index (GPI). In a recent study by Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), it was gathered that Nigeria, like most of the world, became more violent in [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan and the emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, have buried the hatchet ─ even if for only one evening. On Wednesday evening, Sanusi ─ who was suspended by Jonathan as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over his controversial letter ─ honoured a presidential invitation for the traditional breaking of fast during Ramadan. Other northern traditional [...]
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