Posts tagged #nigeria, and clips and stories about Nigeria.
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President Bola Tinubu urged the West African College of Physicians on Oct. 22 to find practical solutions to medical brain drain, as the college made him a fellow at the State House in Abuja and Nigeria responds to its first Ebola case.
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Tinubu received Lee Engineering's Leemon Ikpea, whose firm is building two compressor stations in Edo State so the Escravos-Lagos pipeline can carry 2.3 billion standard cubic feet of gas a day, and pressed oil majors to use Nigerian firms.
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Nigeria's Presidential Task Force on Ebola met in emergency session at the State House in Abuja on Oct. 21, a day after the country's first case. Health Minister Pate said contacts are being traced and isolated and the incident management system is active.
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President Bola Tinubu congratulated Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, former Kano governor and now a presidential running mate on a rival ticket, on his 70th birthday, saying competing in the January 2027 election will not remove his affection for him.
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Benue's House of Assembly passed the constitutional amendment that would let Nigeria's states create their own police on Oct. 20. It needs 24 of 36 state assemblies; the presidency counted about six on Oct. 15.
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Pa Reuben Fasoranti, leader of the Yoruba group Afenifere, has died at 100. President Tinubu called him "an icon, a beacon of principle" and one of the last titans of Chief Obafemi Awolowo's progressive family.
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Nigeria's draft National Policing Bill, 2026, which would create federal and state police services, and 29 consequential amendment bills went to the Justice Ministry on Oct. 19 for review due by Oct. 30. The bill must wait for the states to finish the constitutional amendment.
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The U.S. Mission in Nigeria said on Oct. 19 that "a U.S. visa does not guarantee entry," as Nigerians live under a partial U.S. entry ban, a religious freedom designation and a House vote to withhold all aid, 88 days before the Jan. 16 election.
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Tinubu approved 18-month tenure extensions for Nigeria's immigration chief Kemi Nandap, now to June 30, 2028, and prisons chief Sylvester Nwakuche, now to May 26, 2028, on the interior minister's advice, keeping both in office through the 2027 elections.
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Former Delta State Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan died on Oct. 19 at 71, his family said. President Tinubu mourned him as a public servant devoted to Delta's development and called his death "a great loss."
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Nigeria's President Tinubu received the City Boys Movement, founded by his son Seyi, at the State House in Abuja on October 19, praising its "structure" and urging young supporters to get their voter cards before the January 16, 2027 presidential election.
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Nigeria's federal universities no longer need a recruitment waiver from the Office of the Head of the Civil Service to hire staff, President Tinubu said at the Azare convocation, as staff payroll moves from IPPIS to GIFMIS.