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South-East Worst Hit In 2022 As Nigerian Army, Police Killed Over ... (SaharaReporters.com)

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has said the militarisation and clampdown on the South-East region between ...

Soldiers of the Nigerian Military had also in 12 months of 2022 burned down or destroyed no fewer than 600 defenseless civilian homes worth billions of naira and sacked over 18,000 from their ancestral homes. “Those arrested by soldiers were also found to have run the high risk of never coming back alive for eternity. Some of the residents of Eha-Amufu communities over the vicious killings and destructions of their communities by armed herdsmen had gone to Nkalaha. “The Nigerian Military particularly the Army had never arrested or shot and killed a single Jihadist Fulani Herdsman in the Region in 2022, if not since 2016.” The group disclosed this in a statement signed by Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman; Obianuju Joy Igboeli Esquire, Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law and Chidinma Udegbunam and Head, Campaign and Publicity Department. The statement read, “The deployed military and police in the East had between January and December 2022 crudely, barbarously and atrociously killed 700 civilians and arrested 1100.

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Funding immediately available for WestDoc in Ballinasloe and south ... (Galway Daily)

Roscommon-Galway TD Denis Naughten and Cllr Evelyn Parsons received confirmation that the €426,000 announced for the expansion has now been received. Late last ...

“It is expected that the new GP out of hours service supported by WestDoc will be operational before the end of January.” Cllr Parsons said: “This funding will ensure that the patients in these practices will be able to access the WestDoc out of hours GP service at last, a service which is available throughout a large part of County Galway.” Late last year there was a growing concern that out of hours GP services could be suspended, but Minister Anne Rabbitte confirmed that WestDoc was to be provided with additional funding.

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