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President Bola Tinubu has revealed the difficulty and delay in appointing Nigerian ambassadors.

Tinubu said he can’t appoint just anybody, hence the difficulty in releasing the list.

Stressing that he still has some ambassadorial slots, Tinubu appreciated Nigerians for their patience.

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the recall of Mr Salihu Abdullahi Dembos, the Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, who briefly vacated the post following some management changes in the national television. According to statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy Dembos will now return to complete his three-year tenure.

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 The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum, and governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed, says the party has had enough of those causing problems. Reacting to the new set of conditions listed by a group loyal to Nyesom Wike, Minister of Federal Capital Territory, for the PDP convention to hold peacefully, Mohammed said leaders of the PDP are not cowards.

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has vowed to go ahead with its elective National Convention scheduled for November 15th and 16th in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Speaking at the inauguration of the National Convention Committee at the party headquarters in Abuja, on Tuesday, Ambassador Iliya Damagum, the National Chairman, said those against the convention were detractors, who will not succeed.

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 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said he did not make any mistake with the choice of Vice-President Kashim Shettima as his deputy. There have been reports that the president is plotting not to run on another joint ticket with Shettima. But in a personally signed statement on Tuesday, Tinubu hailed Shettima and extolled his leadership qualities.

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Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed scores of terrorists and arrested 15 others in a series of coordinated operations across the country. A military source told The Nation late Monday night that troops also rescued 15 kidnap victims during onslaughts conducted from August 29 to 31.

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 FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has granted a 30-day grace period for land use violators in the territory to revert to their original land uses while also paying a N5 million penalty. The penalty is alongside a 7.5% charge on the Assessed Capital Value of illegally converted properties.

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 Hundreds of men, women, and children in Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State on Tuesday staged a mass protest, blocking the Sokoto–Lagos highway, over the worsening bandit attacks in the state. They said that criminal gangs were now in control of many local government areas of the state, leaving residents devastated, displaced, and increasingly hopeless.

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 Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has criticised the Bola Tinubu-led government over worsening insecurity, particularly in Kwara State, where bandits sacked a community in Patigi Local Government Area. In a statement on Tuesday, Atiku lamented what he described as the administration’s “monumental failure” to protect citizens, warning that violence in the North-Central had reached alarming levels.

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 A 37-year-old suspect has been arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Kano State Command, who also recovered 8,000 bottles of Akuskura (a herbal mixture) suspected to contain dangerous drugs and 48 blocks of Cannabis sativa. The NDLE confirmed the arrest of the suspect in a statement on Tuesday.

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 The Police command in Lagos State has arrested 23 suspected cultists over the alleged killing of three persons in the Lekki-Ajah area of the state. Command spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the development in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos.

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Human rights activist, Mahdi Shehu, has criticised former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, accusing him of hypocrisy over his recent comments on security strategies in the country.
Speaking in reaction to El-Rufai’s interview on Channels Television last week, Shehu said it was ironic for the ex-governor to condemn Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State and National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, for allegedly making payments to bandits, when he himself once admitted to taking similar steps.
Shehu referred to a Vanguard report from December 3, 2016, which stated that El-Rufai’s administration had tracked armed herders in neighbouring countries and provided them with compensation to halt attacks in Kaduna.

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