The House of Representatives has summoned the Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi and the management of the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) over the N166,685,929,000 revenue that accrued to the authority as at December 31, 2016 but was not properly captured in the statement of account of the agency. They are also to explain the cost of […]
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A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Babatunde Olusola Benson, has passed on. Benson, who held the traditional title of Asiwaju of Ikorodu, died on Thursday, nine days to his 89th birthday on July 4, 2021. His death was announced by the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabir Shotobi, and the Ikorodu Branch […]
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President and Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote has received the highest civilian honour in Cameroon – the Commander of the National Order of Valour – from the President of the Republic, Paul Biya. According to Biya, the landmark honour was conferred on the business mogul in recognition of his efforts in infrastructural […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that 77 per cent of all vaccine doses are being administered in just 10 countries. It indicated that since February 4, 2021, more people have been vaccinated against the COVID-19 than those that have been confirmed to have been infected since the beginning of the epidemic. It decried […]
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says it won’t consider frivolous loan request The National Assembly will debate the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) on Tuesday, Senate President Ahmad Lawan told State House reporters yesterday after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He also said that a supplementary budget request by the Executive and the Electoral […]
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Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Leo Irabor has described as ‘preposterous,’ an allegation by Islamic Cleric Ahmad Abubakar that security agencies were conniving with bandits to perpetrate crime in the country. Also, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) dismissed as ridiculous, Gumi’s claim that its members and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) kill Northerners. Another group, […]
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A Tunisian woman infected by the Covid-19 coronavirus receives oxygen at an intensive care unit (ICU) in a hospital in the northwestern town of Beja, on June 22, 2021, as Tunisia’s health authorities cope with a spike in Covid-19 cases in the area. Fethi Belaid / AFP Africa CDC: Continent not winning against ‘brutal’ pandemic […]
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reaffirms that only National Assembly can reorganise Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said he would not hesitate to give assent to any amendments to the 1999 Constitution on restructuring. He spoke when the National Executive of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), led by Prof Benjamin Okaba, visited him at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. On […]
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Some residents of Somolu Local Government Area of Lagos State on Thursday protested to Lagos House in Alausa, Ikeja over alleged imposition of the incumbent Chairman of Somolu Local Government, Hon. Abdul Ahmed Salawu, as the party’s candidate of the party in the forthcoming local government election in the state. Leader of the protesters, Hon. […]
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warns: “The Nigerian state is sinking deeper into loose banditry and general uncertainties.” A former Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has said that restructuring is the only way to save Nigeria. He stressed that a progressive and graduated restructuring of the union, mandated at the peace table, would strengthen […]
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