Good roads are central to the infrastructural needs of the people and a nation, as qualitative life and steadily growing economy are directly linked to easy movements of goods and services. Major roads in Nigeria have suffered abandonment by successive Nigerian governments, with the attendant harrowing experiences borne by the users of such roads. Nigerian […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has returned to a Federal High Court in Abuja with a request to reverse the bail it granted 12 detained associates of Yoruba nation advocate, Sunday Igboho. In an application filed on Monday by its lawyer, Idowu Awo, the DSS is limiting its request to four of the 12. […]
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Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed By Abachi Ungbo History is replete with countries that plunged into crises on the strength of ever- rising spending and the crushing effect of accumulated debts. For instance, Greece fell into deep economic morass due to its fiscal policies. It kept spending while borrowing continues to make a quick upward trajectory. […]
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President’s pledge to raise education funding is good, but redeeming it is better Perhaps the best news that stakeholders in Nigeria’s educational sector have heard in many years is President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to increase budgetary allocation to the sector by 50 percent over the next two years. Making the pledge alongside President Uhuru Kenyatta […]
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reacted to a video wherein a man identified to be a Nigerian diplomat was manhandled in Indonesia by summoning the Ambassador of Indonesia to Nigeria to explain what he knows about it. The unnamed diplomat was seen shouting “I can’t breathe! My neck!” as he was being roughened up. […]
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Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governors will reconvene today to resolve the lingering leadership crisis rocking the party. A meeting of the governors on the same issue yesterday hit the rocks forcing the state chief executives to reconvene today Tuesday. The meeting was summoned to determine whether or not the National Chairman of the party, Prince […]
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The Nigerian Correctional Service on Monday provided special transportation from court for Chidinma Ojukwu, prime suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Super TV, Usifo Ataga. A prison official put Miss Ojukwu, without handcuffs, in the front seat of a blue Toyota Camry and whisked her away from the Yaba Magistrates’ […]
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Nigeria has announced August 16 as the new date for the beginning of the second phase of COVID-19 vaccination in the country. The phase will see the country administering the Moderna vaccine doses donated by the United States. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed the new date on Monday while featuring on […]
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MD, NNPC, Mele Kyari The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Monday announced the promotion and redeployment of some staff to fill vacant positions, as well as the disengagement of a chief operating officer. Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Kennie Obateru, announced in a statement issued in Abuja that Billy Okoye had been appointed […]
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The Eselu of Iselu Kingdom, in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, has withdrawn the chieftaincy titled he bestowed on a former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, as the Otunba Asoludero of Iselu kingdom. The first class monarch had few weeks ago named Okorocha the Otunba Asoludero of […]
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