• Advises ACF, CNG to purge themselves of South-hates-North notion • Yoruba Ronu berates NEF over North as kingmakers comment • CNG: Akeredolu’s statement an empty threat, North will field candidates The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, yesterday, expressed full support of Southern Governors’ Forum (SGF)’s position on the need to shift power to the South […]
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Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo (left); Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; his Bayelsa counterpart, Douye Diri and his wife, Gloria during the inauguration of 4.5km Igbedi community road in Kolokuma/Opokuma council of the state…yesterday Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has promised that his administration will construct more roads to link communities in the […]
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‘The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited may need an estimated N201bn worth of clean Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) to bring 170.25 million litres of adulterated product imported the country up to standard, an analysis of industry data has shown. The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority had said on Tuesday that for every 200 […]
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A member of the House of Representatives, Gabriel Zock, was on Thursday arraigned before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on criminal charges of advanced fees fraud otherwise known as 419. Zock, who is representing Kachia Kagarko Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, was put on trial by the Economic and Financial […]
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The National Assembly on Thursday dismissed a threat by the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), that he would oppose the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill if it was based on selfish interest. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Ajibola Basiru, specifically dismissed Malami as […]
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Burkina Faso junta chief Burkina Faso’s new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared president by the country’s top constitutional body after a coup last month, legal sources said Thursday. They said the Constitutional Council on Wednesday determined that “Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, lieutenant-colonel in the national armed forces, president of the Patriotic Movement for […]
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By Banji Ayoola Hope has brightened for ace photographer Remi Aye who is battling for survival as Owena Press Limited, the publisher of The Hope Newspapers, his former employer, responded this afternoon to the distress call to help one of its former staff now in his critical hour of need. When contacted at about 4.30 […]
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Importers have reacted with outrage to a new policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria requiring foreign suppliers to register on a CBN portal and operate a pricing system regulated by the bank. The new policy is bound to lead to scarcity of goods in the country and will trigger inflation, they warned. The CBN […]
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The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says with an estimated 19.9 million survivors, Nigeria accounts for the third highest number of women and girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, globally. In a statement made available to newsmen in Makurdi in commemoration of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, the global organization […]
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The police in Imo State have attributed the killing of seven persons at Mmaahu community in Ohaji Egbema Local Government Area of the state to cult activities. The state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, yesterday, gave the names of those killed as Charles Mgbarahor, Funky Anane, Charity Nwachukwu, Edeme Okoro, Isaac Ojenya, Ndubuisi Nwabusi and […]
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