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The wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, said on Monday that her husband’s ill health caused instability in Nigeria. She expressed the view at the stakeholders meeting on Reproductive, Maternal, New Born, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH and N) in Abuja. The event was also used to inaugurate the Governors Wives Advocacy Group (GWAG) on reproductive health in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari was in London for treatment of an undisclosed illness and spent over 100 days there. He returned to Nigeria on August 19 and has since resumed his full duties which he delegated to the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, while he was away. As you are aware for the past six months Nigeria was not stable because of my husband’s ill health,” Mrs. Buhari said. “We thank God that he has fully recovered now. Mrs. Buhari also lamented the actions of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, saying he tried to create “a state out of a state.” Although ...

No fewer than five people died yesterday after a fuel tanker exploded at Tafa village along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. An eyewitness, who asked not to be named, told journalists in Kaduna that the tanker laden with kerosene was trying to avoid dangerous potholes on the road when it suddenly fell by the roadside and burst into flames. “Two of the deceased died after inhaling fumes from the flames and the other three were burnt by the fire,” he said. According to him, many others who sustained severe burns have been hospitalised while several vehicles parked by the roadside were burnt. Thousands of Abuja-Kaduna bound passengers were left stranded following the incident. A spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the incident to newsmen. The official, however, said he could not ascertain if lives were lost in the incident. The busy Kaduna-Abuja highway links the Federal Capital Territory with the North West and North East, with thousand...