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The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called off its 11 day nation wide strike. President of NARD, Dr. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi who confirmed this in a telephone interview, said the decision to called off the strike was reached at a virtual National Executive Council (NEC) meeting which ended late Saturday evening. He said the…

  Eight people have been killed by gunmen in Kuru, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau state. The bandits were said to have opened fire at a mining site on Friday night, killing eight persons with several others who sustained injuries. In a statement statement by Governor Simon Lalong, through his Director of Press,…

The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, has said that the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) still remained one of the basic requirement for entry into the Academy. In a statement on Saturday in Kaduna, the academy said speculations that it had suspended JAMB for admission into the 73 Regular Course is not true and urged…

The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Yakubu Pam, has urged the federal government to take practical steps to end banditry and all forms of criminalities in the country. He also asked those advocating for amnesty for bandits to stop such agitations, saying the bandits have committed crime against the society…

The umbrella body for ethnic nationalities in the Southern part of Kaduna state, the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), has accused the federal and the Kaduna state governments for allegedly abandoning victims of herdsmen attack in the area. In a statement on Saturday in Kaduna, spokesman of the union, Luka Binniyat, said many communities were…