About one week after the Senate rejected the President’s request to amend the recently signed Electoral Act, 2022, the Federal Government has said it will explore all available options on the law. Before assenting to the amended Electoral Act on Friday, February 25, President Muhammadu Buhari asked the National Assembly to delete Section 84(12), which […]
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United States is supporting Ukrainian Internally Displaced People (IDPs) with an additional over $186 million. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken made the announcement on Tuesday. He said in a statement that the additional humanitarian assistance would support internally displaced persons and the more than three million refugees affected by Russia’s “premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified […]
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Ijaw and Ndokwa youths, under the aegis of Ndokwa East Ijaw Nation Movement (NEINM), have protested the degradation caused by oil exploration by Sterling Exploration and Energy Production Company Limited (SEEPCO), on the coast of the River Niger. The youths, who yesterday stormed the company’s premises in Ndokwa East Local Government of Delta State, said […]
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Fresh facts have emerged that the clash between Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and his Edo State counterpart Godwin Obaseki, forced the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to shift its National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting from Tuesday to Wednesday. The two governors who are currently at loggerheads with each other, are of the same party, […]
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Multiple award-winning Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has warned critics against talking down on his children. This is as the Aye crooner took to his Twitter page on Monday evening to lash out at a critic who threw shade at his son, Ifeanyi. The Twitter user had faulted the singer for using […]
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A troll made by one Mista Mdee on the paternity of David Adeleke, aka Davido’s son, Ifeanyi, has continued to generate reactions across the social media space. Mdee, in a tweet that had been deleted, alleged that Ifeanyi was sired by Peruzzi as he described Davido’s album as a disaster. The tweet read, “Using Peruzzi’s […]
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The Bureau of Public Procurement has told the House of Representatives’ Committee on Navy that it does not possess the documents presented by the HSL International Limited, which the Federal Government awarded the ‘Deep Blue Project’ contract, before the firm was issued a Certificate of No Objection. According to the BPP, the documents on HSL […]
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The Consumer Price Index rose to 15.7 per cent in February from 15.6 per cent in January, latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics have revealed. The NBS disclosed this in its ‘Consumer Price Index February 2022’ report on Tuesday. According to the NBS, the highest increases were recorded in prices of gas, liquid […]
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Members of the All Progressives Congress, who are loyal to the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday, consolidated their hold on the party after surviving last week’s attempt to remove them. On Monday, the Secretary of the CECPC, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, who had not made a public appearance in the […]
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Oyo State Government has inaugurated Environmental and Social Safeguard teams in the State to ensure that out-of-school children captured and re-enrolled in the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) programme are taught in child-friendly environments without any form of threat. Speaking at a two-day orientation training for the newly constituted local environmental and social […]
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