The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has said that Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, is being smuggled out of Nigeria in large quantities after it has been subsidised by the Federal Government. According to the border security outfit, the petroleum product is being diverted to as far as Mali. The Controller-General of the NCS, […]
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Federal Attorney General and Justice minister, Abubakar Malami Nigeria’s 36 states, through their attorneys general, have instituted an action against the Federal Government through the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation over the central government’s failure to remit funds into the federal account. In the suit before the Supreme Court and marked as […]
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People Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Raymond Dokpesi, has debunked reports that he is interested in national chairmanship of the party. The opposition party is expected to elect a new chairman in October to replace Uche Secondus. The former chairman of Daar Communications stated yesterday that he would not risk a dent on his integrity, having […]
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Bayelsa State Governor Diri The 33-member Committee on the Review of Grade Levels and Steps of Local Government and Primary School Staff set up by the Bayelsa State Government in April this year has submitted its report with the discovery of anomalies in the payrolls. The chairman, Timipre Seipulou, said the committee reviewed a total […]
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Leader of the Taliban negotiating team, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founded the Taliban movement with cleric Mullah Omar in the early 1990s amid the chaos and corruption of the civil war that erupted after the Soviet withdrawal. Photo: AFP The Taliban has renamed Afghanistan the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ after its fighters swept into the […]
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American forces can’t be fighting a war Afghan forces are not willing to fight themselves, according to President Joe Biden, who stressed that the US mission in the Taliban-torn Afghanistan 20 years ago was to get the attackers of September 11, 2001 and not to build the landlocked Asian country. His words: “American forces cannot […]
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The Federal Government will borrow about N4.89 trillion from local and foreign sources to finance its budget deficit for 2022 due to decreasing revenue from government sources, according to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajia Zainab Ahmed. She spoke yesterday in Abuja during the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), and Fiscal […]
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Nigeria gets 698,880 doses of AstraZeneca, second phase vaccination begins The Federal Government on Monday announced the arrival of another 698,880 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the country. This is as it also commenced the second phase of COVID-19 vaccination. Recall that the country had earlier received 4,000,080 doses of the Moderna vaccine from […]
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The current state of desolation of what was once the pride of Ogun State, the Gateway Hotel, Ota, owing to a political war among the state’s gladiators, is the subject examined in the following report. Enjoy… Despite its strategic location and proximity to Lagos, the commercial centre of Nigeria, the Gateway Hotel, Ota, one of […]
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Using Southern money for oil exploration in Sokoto, others outrageous, fraudulent, says Edwin Clark-led group The quests for oil in the Northern region and other parts of the country have received a significant boost with the signing of the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday. However, the Pan Niger […]
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