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Due to insufficient manpower in Nigeria’s police force, the Force has concluded plans to engage thousands of Special Constables to work with conventional policemen in communities. The recruitment of the special officers, which would be announced any moment from now, has received presidential backing and it is expected to start in Kaduna and other northern states where the traditional emirate and district structures support the system. It was further learnt that the police had presented the idea to the state governors who were said to have bought into the scheme.…

In a statement by the Director of Army Public Relations (DAPR), Col. Sagir Musa, some unnamed foreign powers, are said to be working in concert with their local collaborators to complicate Nigeria’s security challenges by sponsoring terrorism and banditry. According to the army, not only are these elements working assiduously to derail the ongoing counter-insurgency efforts, as well as the West African sub-region, they were also hard at work to scuttle the country’s democracy as well as the May 29 handover date. Col. Musa said the “mischief markers were determined…

China’s top trade negotiator said on Friday in Washington that trade talks with the US would continue in Beijing following two days of negotiations and a US tariff hike. Speaking to reporters in Washington on Friday, Vice Premier Liu He for the first time gave details on where the negotiations stood following two days of talks with US counterparts, with tariffs and how much China should import from America among the disagreements. “Negotiations have not broken down, but rather, on the contrary, this is only a normal twist in the…

Lapped by the waves of the Atlantic and visible at only low tide, a mysterious rock inscription believed to be centuries old and so far undeciphered lurks outside a French village in Brittany. The town hall in Plougastel-Daoulas in the Finistere region of Brittany in northwest France is now offering a 2,000-euro ($2,250) reward for anyone who can decrypt the sequence of letters and symbol. Locally, the rock is sometimes compared to the Rosetta Stone, the great ancient Egyptian stele now in the British Museum whose inscription was partly deciphered…

Total war against the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has been declared by the Organized Labour on Thursday over the attack by suspected thugs on union members that protested in his private residence in Abuja on Wednesday. Labour in its resolution read by the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC Ayuba Wabba directed workers to attack the Labour Minister and any member of his family anywhere they were sighted. Briefing journalists at the Labour House, the organized labour said that instruction had been given to workers…