Museum Displays Over 3,000 Historic Photographs, Images of Benin Palace As Obaseki hosts US Ambassador to Nigeria Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City Over 3,000 collections of photographs and images found in the royal court of the Benin king's Palace were on exhibition yesterday, at the National
Museum in Benin, Edo State. The exhibited photographs were taken by Chief Solomon Alonge, photographer to the royal court of Benin over 50 years ago. The exhibition was organised
by the United States Diplomatic Mission and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art based in the United States. It followed a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the National Commission for
Museum and Monuments and Smithsonian's National Museum of African Arts of the United States which has the collections. Speaking shortly before the commencement of the exhibition, United States of America Consul-
General to Nigeria, F. John Bray, said Art, including photographs, represent freedom of expression in his country's democracy, adding that the Smithsonian's National Museum and National Museum of Benin have been
working for many years to carry out the exhibition. Commending the two National Museums and the Edo State Government for their support, Continued on page 8
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Boko Haram: 57 Percent of Schools in Borno Closed, Says UNICEF 3 million children in need of emergency education support
Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) yesterday
said the humanitarian crisis brought on the North-east by the protracted Boko Haram insurgency was dire, leaving
three million children in need of emergency education support. Speaking to journalists in Maiduguri after assessment tour
of Borno State, the state most hit by the crisis, the Deputy Director of UNICEF, Justin Forsyth said the humanitarian crisis was
beyond UNICEF and needed the collaboration of all including governments and international aids agencies.
He lamented that that 57 per cent of schools in Borno Continued on page 8
IPOB Leader, Kanu, Not in Our Custody, DHQ Insists Military never invaded his residence, won’t declare him wanted Ngwaukwu Kingdom: Ohanaeze should champion Igbo interest, not IPOB Emmanuel Ugwu in Umuahia and Paul Obi in Abuja Following the growing concerns about the whereabouts of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday said the IPOB leader was not under its custody and could not be responsible for his disappearance. Speaking to journalists in Abuja, the Director of Defence Information, Major General John Enenche explained that the military was not holding Kanu and that it was not the responsibility of DHQ to declare him wanted. "Nobody raided Kanu's home; not from the information I got, I was watching it live, I was monitoring it live and speaking with them (soldiers) on the ground. "The people that came out from there (Kanu’s house) that I saw were the Biafra Security Continued on page 8
SPECIAL JUMA'AT FOR THE NATION AT 57… R-L: President Muhammadu Buhari ; Senate President Bukola Saraki; Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. T. Y. Buratai, and Chief of Air Staff, Sadiq Abubakar observing special Juma'at prayers in commemoration of the 57th independence anniversary of Nigeria held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja …yesterday GODWIN OMOIGUI
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