A youth and environmental rights activist, Legborsi Yamabaana, has handed over a potable water project to Nyobe Bangha in the Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, with the aim of alleviating the suffering of the Ogoni community. Yamabaana, who is the President-General, Ogoni Youths Federation, while commissioning the water project, said it was in […]
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The National Universities Commission has approved new set of eight degree programmes for Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State . The Public Relations Officer of the college, Olufisayo Olajide, who disclosed this in a statement, on Thursday, said the new programmes would run in affiliation with the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, from the […]
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Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected cultists for allegedly gang raping a 22-year-old lady in Abeokuta, the state capital. The incident happened at Eleweran, Abeokuta, when a 38-year-old man, on Wednesday, allegedly invited his friend and gang raped his lover. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident […]
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By Fola Ojo Nigerians seem to have grown callous to inflictions and afflictions. They appear to have waxed pachydermatous to trials and tribulations. In spite of many decades of torrents of hurt and pain unleashed on them by those they chose as leaders, my people have a way of dealing with any bad situation as […]
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Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde Members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Oyo State have asked Governor Seyi Makinde to warn members of the Park Management System against further threatening them or attacking them in order to avoid bloodshed. The NURTW members gave the warning in a petition dated March 24 and […]
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The total value of Nigeria’s crude oil stolen between January 2021 and February 2022 is about $3.27bn (representing N1.361tn at the official exchange rate of N416.25 to the dollar), the Federal Government declared on Thursday. International oil companies and their counterparts in Nigeria said the massive oil theft across the country currently posed a threat […]
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There is panic among residents of Kabusa community in the Federal Capital Territory over the disappearance of three siblings. The children, Marvelous, Alex and Rehoboth Sunday, were said to have gone missing from their school, Star Child Academy, on Tuesday. According to residents, their mother had gone to pick them up from their school located […]
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Buhari with APC leaders Chairmanship aspirants fail to agree In a bid to save the All Progressives Congress from collapse at the national convention, which holds on Saturday, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, held a series of meetings with governors, party leaders and APC members in the National Assembly. It was learnt that some governors […]
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Nigeria’s corporate and economic existence are threatened by a large scale theft of crude oil put at $3.27b in the last 14 months, according to a regulatory agency. It added that there is escalating rate of vandalism in the Niger Delta. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) Gbenga Komolafe spoke […]
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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, Thursday in Abuja, said that the party will not abandon its tradition of zoning political offices in the 2023 elections. Ayu said whoever does not get the presidency this time should wait until the end of the tenure of the next President. The Chairman said […]
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