Euro banknotes are displayed for a photograph taken on 6 Sept. 2020; Gerard Bottino | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The euro on Wednesday jumped back above parity with the dollar, the US currency sliding against its main rivals on concerns over the world’s biggest economy and the prospect of slower interest rate […]
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Pope Francis (L) waves at the end of his weekly general audience at Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican on October 26, 2022; (Photo by Vincenzo Pinto / AFP) Pope Francis warned seminarians in Rome of the dangers of online pornography, in a transcript published by the Vatican Wednesday, calling soft porn a temptation that […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday allayed fears of candidates whose admission fate had been kept in the balance because of the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. It said despite the strikes that had affected the academic calendar from 2020 till date, no offer of admission made by […]
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Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called on the Federal Government to accelerate the process of resolving the Ogoni crises by exonerating the Environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight Ogoni activists executed on November 10, 1995. The President, Fegalo Nsuke, in a statement, explained that this has become imperative ahead of the […]
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• Malami lists LAC achievements, honours Ikeazor Court of Appeal headquarters in Abuja, yesterday, clarified that the transfer of its 21 Justices to various divisions in the country had nothing to do with the judgment of the court that discharged and quashed the terrorism charges against the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra […]
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Deputy Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Hakeem Jamiu on Wednesday said he was not nursing any ambition to replace the late Speaker Funmiyi Afuye. Jamiu, who represents Irepodun/Ifelodun constituency, was reacting to rumours that he was lobbying for the plum legislative position. He denied vying for the number one seat in the […]
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INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu By Mohammed Haruna The trigger for this rather longish article is the controversy that has surrounded recent party primaries for candidates for next year’s two-part General Election which will begin with those of the President and members of the National Assembly on February 25, 2023, and end with those of […]
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The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, has filed an N100 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit against the Federal Government over his continued detention by the Department of State Services, (DSS). In the suit filed at the Federal High Court Abuja, Kanu is seeking his immediate release from the facility […]
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Photo/Facebook/TheAsoVilla Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo presided over a hybrid meeting of the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday in Abuja as President Muhammadu Buhari is away in Seoul for the first World Bio Summit 2022. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha and Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari were in […]
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As Malami commends council for enhancing access to justice The federal government yesterday renamed the Legal Aid Council Headquarters Building after the departed Chief Chimezie Ikeazor. The renaming which was made on behalf of the federal government by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Mr. Abubakar Malami, was in recognition […]
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