The Presidency has explained that President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2022 budget despite his reservation over the insertion of 6,576 contracts into it by the National Assembly. It also denounced the interpretations of Buhari misgivings about the inclusion of the contracts as a sign of a battle between the Executive and the Legislature. Senior Special […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the passing of a former Presidential Candidate in the annulled1993 presidential election, Bashir Tofa, who he described as “a politician of note, who was also a promoter of Islamic culture and civilization’.’ The president made his feelings known in a tribute to the deceased which was released by […]
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President of Ijaw National Congress, Benjamin Okaba, has expressed misgivings about the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari that funds looted at the Niger Delta Development Commission will be recovered and those found culpable in the forensic audit report shall be punished. Buhari had made the declaration in his address in Abuja at the virtual opening […]
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The World Bank has said Nigeria may have one of the highest inflation rates globally in 2022, with increasing prices diminishing the welfare of Nigerian households. According to the World Bank, Nigeria is projected to have one of the highest inflation rates globally and the seventh highest among Sub-Saharan African countries in 2022 “In 2022, […]
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By Tunde Odesola As the new year unfurls its carpet of promise and hope, it won’t be nice to stain the carpet, so early, with footprints from the dunghill of sufferings created last year by the President Buhari-led administration. Therefore, I won’t dwell on Buhari and his government in my inaugural article of 2022. There […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu; and Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, were among dignitaries who on Sunday commiserated with the family of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, indigenes […]
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One of the leading candidates in the 1993 Presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, has passed on.. He was 74 years old. He was the Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention and a major challenger of the late multimillionaire publisher, Moshood Kasimawo (MKO) Abiola in the controversial June 12, 1993, presidential election, annulled by […]
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The University College Hospital, Ibadan has narrated that the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, died at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital at 01.15 am. The hospital in a statement by its Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations Officer, Toye Akinrinola, said the monarch was referred to UCH from a private hospital […]
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• Two APC governors championing single term for South Former President Goodluck Jonathan has met with South-south leaders coordinating his alleged return to the Presidency in 2023. It was gathered that the meeting held on December 27, 2021, at Aridolf Hotels and Spars in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. A source, whose political associate attended the gathering, […]
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Vows to ensure that food products available to Nigerians are safe and wholesome The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has declared that Nigeria will not be a dumping ground for chemicals banned in other countries. Prof. Moji Adeyeye, the agency’s Director-General made this declaration in a statement issued by the […]
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