• Activist blames FG as govt assures early resolution • Nasarawa varsity compliance comprehensive, says chairman The House of Representatives has intervened in the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Adopting a motion sponsored by Mr. Dozie Nwankwo at plenary, yesterday, presided by the Speaker, […]
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• Resolves division over convention date • Adopts consensus methodology for national chair • APC ineligible to contest 2023 elections, PDP alleges After months of vacillation and doublespeak, the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has officially allotted political offices, including the national chairmanship and Presidential slots to various geopolitical zones. The issue of where the […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has declined comments on whether he would contest the next year’s presidential election. He expressed optimism that the general elections would be credible and that Nigeria will not implode. Jonathan spoke on the sidelines of a two-day strategic retreat of the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) Council of the […]
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Tractor • Nation’s seven tractors per 10,000ha fall below 200/10,000ha global average • Food prices remain high despite claim of rice, grain sufficiency Shortage of tractors and critical implements for farm mechanisation has hit the country as land preparation for the 2022 dry and wet season cultivation begins across agro-ecological zones. Secretary, Agricultural Equipment Hiring […]
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The Federal High Court in Jos, Plateau State, has convicted a former Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe, and two others for money laundering involving N450 million traced to funds said to have been fraudulently distributed by an ex-petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in 2015. According to a statement by the EFCC’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, on […]
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Some civil society organisations in the country on Tuesday in Abuja protested the delay by President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The National Assembly had on January 31 transmitted a clean copy of the reworked Electoral Bill to Mr Buhari for assent. But worried by the inaction of the president, […]
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Barely 24-hours after a federal judge declined to grant bail to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, another judge has compounded his woes by approving a request by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to detain him and six others for two weeks. The NDLEA is investigating Kyari, a suspended deputy commissioner […]
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APC’s caretaker secretary, John Akpanudoedehe • Nabena insists Buni committee can’t be stampeded • Rebirth group cries foul, urges Buhari to wade in • Ex-PGF DG blames scramble by govs, wants CECPC reorganised The last is yet to be heard on the crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) following the shift of its […]
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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has agreed to alternate offices between the north and south in the forthcoming dispensation. This was disclosed on Tuesday by the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) after their meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Disclosing this while responding to a question, Kaduna Governor Mallam Nasir […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress(APC) Governor’s are in a closed-door meeting in the Executive Council Chamber of of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which started around 3pm, was rescheduled following postponement of the earlier one by President Buhari last week just before he traveled to Belgium for the EU-African Summit. The meeting […]
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