It is clearer now that the higher the price of cement, the less affordable for housing and the more people in need of shelter. But to have a firm grip on cement rate will require more than an executive fiat or a casual appeal to market oligopoly. A serious intervention to assuage the deficit must […]
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Energy Transition Threatens 16tscm Of Gas Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has warned that the continuous push against hydrocarbon may threaten the future of crude oil and gas reserves in Africa. While the continent has about 125 billion crude oil reserves and 16 trillion standard cubic meters of natural gas, OPEC’s Secretary-General, Sanusi Barkindo, […]
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Police Inspector General Usman Baba The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has confirmed that a secondary school student, Samuel Archibong, of Community Secondary School, Aka Offot in Uyo has stabbed a school mate, James Elijah, to death. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Odiko Macdon, disclosed this in a statement in Uyo on Saturday. […]
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Photo/Facebook/Maistrategy/Godowoli • Declines To Monitor March 17 NEC Meeting • Meeting, National Convention To Hold As Scheduled, Gov. Bello Insists • Buni Allegedly Seeks Soft Landing, To Meet Buhari In London • Youth Coalition Cautions Against Imposition • PDP Mocks Ruling Party As HURIWA Carpets Buhari Over Crisis • Party Must Take Steps To Emerge […]
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A former minister of Works, Ambassador Ibrahim Musa Kazaure, has said that he, alongside other Nigerian public officeholders deserves jail terms for their role in institutionalising bad governance in Nigeria. Kazaure, who spoke on a Radio France International programme, alleged that Nigerian leaders are all for themselves and not for the well-being of Nigeria and […]
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By Banji Ayoola In the coming years, peace shall flourish everywhere on earth. Conflict, war, hostility shall be alien to the earth; they shall have no place in the New Era that is being born. For anything, everything which formerly caused, and today still causes disturbance everywhere on earth shall be kept away and be […]
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The member representing Oluyole Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, has charged Governments at all tiers to galvanize action plans to support breaking the bias and misconceptions against women. She said this on Friday, in commemoration of the 2022 International Women’s Day celebration, held on March 8, adding that this step […]
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• Says party needs 21-day notice to sack Buni There seems to be no let up in the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC). Yesterday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said the party could only remove the National Chairman of Caretaker /Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Governor Mai Mala Buni, and other officers […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday restated his decision and commitment to stay off the party politics, saying nothing can make him return to party politics. He made his position known, while addressing newsmen shortly after a closed-door meeting with members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abeokuta. […]
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By Reuben Abati So much has happened locally and globally recently – the nerve-wracking fuel scarcity in Nigeria, the war in Ukraine, the signing of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill and the attendant controversies, the amendment of 68 clauses in the 1999 Constitution also, so much really that the Nigerian commentariat has more or less […]
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