The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has raked in N315 million from the sale of nomination and expression of interest forms to aspirants jostling for the party’s governorship ticket for the November 6 Anambra State Governorship elections. At the close of sales and submission of nomination and expression of interest forms yesterday, it was gathered […]
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By Niyi Akinnaso “When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions” -Claudius, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Perhaps no statement could have captured the current Nigerian situation better than the above Shakespearean dictum. Virtually everything that could go wrong has gone wrong with Nigeria, earning the country negative assessments on all international indices. Only […]
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Abaribe kicks The Senate on Wednesday referred the name of the Special Assistant on Social Media to the President, Lauretta Onochie, to the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for screening as a National Commissioner of INEC representing Delta State. This is coming about eight months after President Muhammdu Buhari forwarded Onochie’s […]
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says Nigerians must sacrifice to end banditry Wife of Kaduna State Governor, Hajia Asia El-Rufai has said that Nigerians must sacrifice to end banditry and kidnapping, saying that no ransom should be paid to her abductors if she is kidnapped. The Governor’s wife made the remarks in Kaduna on Wednesday while addressing participants of a […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday said Nigerians would fare better staying together than break up. He stated this in Abeokuta at his investiture as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyor (NIS) organised by the Ogun chapter of the Body of Fellows of the NIS. The elder statesman called on agitators for the […]
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Microblogging and social network giant, Twitter, has reached out to the Federal Government for negotiations over the recent suspension of its activities, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has disclosed. Speaking with State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC), Mohammed said Twitter had reached out to the government seeking high-level discussion […]
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Customers register their MTN mobile phone sim cards at a roadside kiosk in Lagos, Nigeria. Photographer: George Osodi/Bloomberg Nigeria’s teledensity falls by 6.03 per cent Operators lose 12.5m Internet users as broadband penetration drops to 40.6% At least 15.8 million subscribers have lost access to telecommunications services in the country, as a result of government […]
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Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, inspecting a quarter guard, during his assumption of duty at the Army headquarters in Abuja… Photo: NAN President Muhammadu Buhari’s choice of Major-General Farouk Yahaya, 55, as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) has been criticised in various circles for various reasons. This is not unexpected as Yahaya, […]
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The Academic Staff Union Of Polytechnics (ASUP) has suspended its 65-day-old strike. This followed an appraisal of the report indicating the gradual implementation of the items contained in the Memorandum of Action signed between the Union and the Federal Government. According to a statement issued on Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary, Abdullahi Yalwa, the […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has urged the Federal Government to jettison traditional orientation and “archaic” sentiment which describe cannabis as a ‘devil’s plant’. He spoke at a Stakeholders’ Roundtable on the “Benefits and Opportunities of Cannabis Plant in Nigeria” held at the International Culture and Event Centre in Akure the state capital. Akeredolu urged […]
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