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Over 1,700 NYSC members in Kano match for Nigeria’s unity

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No fewer than 1,737 2021 Batch ‘A’ stream ll National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to Kano State have staged a walk to support the Nigeria’s Unity.

The walk was staged on Saturday at the NYSC orientation camp Kusallah,in Karaye Local Government Area, during the Corps members’ cultural display.

Speaking during the event, the NYSC Coordinator in Kano, Hajiya Aisha Tata-Mohammed said the unity match and cultural carnival was special to mark the 48 years of the scheme.

“There is no doubt that the legacy of our founding fathers for a united and indivisible country is paying off with NYSC at the front, and irrespective of the daunting challenges facing our country.

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“NYSC is now 48 years old, and every Nigerian shared in that pride and in the success recorded by the scheme in the areas of brotherhood entrenchment, national development and integration.

“The essence of the NYSC carnival today, is to leverage on our traditions to showcase different cultural identities while appreciating our diversity as our strength.

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“We shall prevail because we chose to move forward as one indivisible nation and one people.

“The unity match is a new programme well-packaged by the courage of our convictions that together we share the optimism of an NYSC scheme that triumphed over challenges, and shall continue to do so despite misconceptions or criticisms in some quarters.

“Those critics are wrong, and the NYSC will come out of it soonest, no ifs or buts. The Sterling achievements of the NYSC programme, no doubt, over shadow any negative assumptions from some individuals calling for its scrap.

“I wish to remind everyone that, apart from national cohesion and community development, NYSC also offers corps members an extra ordinary chance to skill themselves in various SAED sectors.” She reminded.

Tata-Mohammed further charged the corps members to utilise all the opportunities giving to them by the scheme for themselves and for the development of the country.

She added that the unity of purpose with which they were prepared today, speaks volumes of oneness, cohesion and brotherhood amongst all tribes of this nation.

“And it is the same unity that would make you succeed and keep our nation intact, despite the feeble attempt by some gloomsters to open door of divisions.” She said.

Some of the Corps members in an interview with NAN assured their readiness to stay in Kano for their one year service without seeking for redeployment to their respective states.

Nvarie Eruchi-Glory, a female corps member from Rivers State said she has come to Kano to stay, as unity was one of the major purposes for the establishment of the NYSC scheme.

“I have never been to the North, this is my firat time of coming, and I assured you as part of efforts to ensure unity among Nigerians, I have plans not to redeploy to anywhere.” Moses Oluwaseun from Osun.

Maryam Tajuddeen from Kano said she mate new friends from various part of the country, and pledged to sustain the relationship for the betterment of Nigeria.

At the end of the carnival, platum number 10 was declared winner, platum number nine second position while third position went to the platum three.

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Insecurity: US lawmaker accuses Matawalle of bribe attempt to silence recommendation calling for his sack

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April 21, 2026

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Kimberly Daniels, a United States Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives for District 14, has alleged that Nigeria’s minister of state for defense, Bello Matawalle, attempted to bribe a US official to deflect the narrative of the United World Congress of Diplomats, UN-WCD, report.

The lawmaker made the claim in a viral video released on her official Facebook account on Monday.

She said Matawalle’s alleged move was to cover up the UN-WCD report on Christian genocide in Nigeria, which indicted him.

Daniels insisted that no amount of pressure can silence her stand against the killings of Christians in Nigeria.

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“A US elected official was offered money by Nigeria’s minister of state defense, Bello Matawalle, to change the narrative of the UN-WCD Christian genocide in Nigeria report,” she said in the viral video.

Recall that Daniels, who doubled as the chairperson of UN-WCD, had called for President Bola Tinubu to remove Matawalle over alleged complicity in the killings in Plateau, Benue, Kaduna, and other parts of Nigeria.

Matawalle is yet to officially reply the US lawmaker.

Daniels alleged that following her recent press statement on what she described as targeted killings of Christians in Nigeria, she came under pressure from individuals she linked to the minister, including what she characterised as attempts to discredit her report and “buy support” from US-based elected officials.

According to her, an unnamed American lawmaker allegedly received an offer of financial inducement to publicly counter her position and defend the Nigerian defence leadership.

She claimed to have received evidence of a communication, including a prepared statement and promotional material, purportedly linked to the minister.

She also claimed that the bribery attempt is meant to divide America elected officials not knowing that they are united.

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Just In:President Tinubu Sacks Minister Of Finance

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April 21, 2026

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved a minor cabinet reshuffle in the membership of the Federal Executive Council.

According to a memo signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, two cabinet members, Mr. Wale Edun and Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa are to leave the cabinet while their replacements have been named.

Edun, until the latest development, was the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy. He has been directed to hand over to Mr. Taiwo Oyedele who is now to take over as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy. Oyedele was formerly a Minister of State in the ministry.

Also Mr. Muttaqha Rabe Darma (PhD .) has been named as the ministerial nominee and minister designate for the Housing and Urban Development Ministry.

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The memo also directed Dangiwa to hand over to the Minister of State in the ministry.

The memo stated that “all handing over and taking over processes should be completed on or before close of business on Thursday 23rd April, 2026.”

Explaining the President’s decision, Akume said: “These changes are aimed at strengthening cohesion, synergy in governance as well as achieving more impactful delivery on the economy to Nigerians, through the Renewed Hope Agenda.”

He said the President, in approving the cabinet reshuffle, has fully exercised his powers as conferred on him by Sections 147 and 148 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999, as amended).

The President thanked the outgoing ministers for their services to the nation while wishing them the best in all their future endeavours.

The President, Akume noted, equally assured all cabinet members that “the process of reinvigoration shall be continuous.”

Signed:

Yomi Odunuga,
Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation

21-04-2026

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JUST IN: FG Files 13 Count Charges Against Alleged Coup Plotters

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April 21, 2026

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By Yusuf Danjuma Yunusa

The Federal Government has filed a 13-count charge before the Federal High Court in Abuja against individuals accused of plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu. Among those named in the suit are a retired major general, a retired naval captain, a serving police inspector, and three other suspects.

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According to security sources, the coup was scheduled to be executed on Nigeria’s Independence Day. However, the plot was uncovered after preparations and plans were leaked, leading to its successful disruption.

The development prompted the Federal Government to cancel the Independence Day programme—a move described as highly unusual by political observers.

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