The Federal Government has established a Pad Bank for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) female staff, corps members and other visitors that may have emergency menstrual flow in the office. A statement by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Women Affairs, Mr Eddy Megwa, said Mrs Pauline Tallen, the Minister for Women Affairs, […]
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Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr.(C) is proclaimed by Senate President Vicente Sotto (L) and House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco as duly-elected president at the House of Representatives in Quezon City, suburban Manila on May 25, 2022. (Photo by Ted Aljibe / AFP) Ferdinand Marcos Jr was Wednesday proclaimed the next Philippine president after a landslide […]
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The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said the board remitted N27.2 billion from 2017 to date to the Federal Government’s coffers. He made this known yesterday in Abuja at the opening session of a three-day workshop for public relations officials of the board. The workshop, organised in collaboration with […]
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In this file photo taken on September 22, 2012, Myanmar’s member of parliament Aung San Suu Kyi attends an event in Low Memorial Library at Columbia University in New York. – Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will hear the verdict in her incitement trial on November 30, 2021, the first in a catalogue […]
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Few days to the convention to pick the presidential flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 elections, one of the aspirants, Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has recorded a major breakthrough with the party’s delegates from the South West. The Director General of the Nwachukwu Anakwenze Campaign Organisation, Chief Eric Oluwole, disclosed this in […]
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PDP Convention: Tension as court defers ruling to today Dickson, Suswam, Akobundu secure tickets Kenny Bello defeats Reps Deputy Minority Whip in Ogun 3 Reps defeated in Benue Governors Okezie Ikpeazu, Samuel Ortom, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Abia, Benue and Enugu states respectively, yesterday, won senatorial tickets of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in their […]
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The train attacked on the Abuja-Kaduna Railway at Rijana Kagarko LGA, in Kaduna Two months after their abduction, the Federal Government has been given an ultimatum of seven days by terrorists to enter into meaningful dialogue over the kidnapped victims of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, otherwise, they would be killed. However, the terrorists said negotiation […]
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INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, kicked against what it described as marginalisation of women in the political space, imploring political parties to give preference to the gender during their primaries. It underscored the need for women to break the barriers of being just aspirants to contestants, while advising […]
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Federal High Court, Lagos Human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, has sued the Federal Government (FG), Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Lagos State government and its attorney general, and 12 other northern states and their attorneys general at the Federal High Court, Lagos, over-allocation of Value Added Tax (VAT) realised from the sale of […]
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• Accuses him of jumping bail Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, arrested the former Imo State governor and presidential aspirant, Rochas Okorocha, at his Maitama, Abuja residence. Though the security operatives met stiff resistance from the supporters of the former governor, tear gas was fired to disperse them to effect the arrest. The […]
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