The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered the immediate suspension of “Politics Today” programme on Channel Television. It also fined the station N5 million forallegedly breaching the broadcast code. In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television by the Acting Director General of the Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, NBC said the penalties were […]
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By Banji Ayoola Pan Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has declared that elder statesman, Basorun Seinde Arogbofa, OFR, remains its National Secretary General. This was against the backdrop of a recent purported appointment of a former Commissioner and governorship aspirant in Ondo State, Chief Sola Ebiseni, as the organisation’s new General Secretary and National Publicity Secretary, […]
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The European Commission has started legal action against British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca due to breaches of its COVID-19 vaccine supply contract. The EU executive branch began the process on Friday because some terms of the contract have not been respected, commission spokesperson Stefan De Keersmaecker said on Monday. Furthermore, “the company has not been in […]
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A member of the House of Representatives, Yusuf Gagdi, has said the Department of State Services didn’t send any report to the National Assembly on the past extremist views of the embattled Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, during his ministerial screening in 2019. The lawmaker, who is the Chairman, House of Representatives […]
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PRESENTED with another opportunity to rise to the stature of a statesman, President Muhammadu Buhari instead sank deeper into his familiar swamp of sectarianism and divisiveness. This may lead to a significant loss of trust in his regime. And a decline in trust can lead to lower morale of troops, whose lives are on the […]
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Buhari, Blinken United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will meet with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, during his first virtual trip to Africa since US President Joe Biden came into office. Blinken’s spokesman, Ned Price, in a statement on Monday, said his principal will also virtually visit Kenya after meeting with the Nigerian […]
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Eminent virologist and Chairman, Expert Review Committee on COVID-19, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, has urged the Federal Government and aviation agencies to scrutinise airlines conveying passengers from India to prevent the spread of a deadly COVID-19 strain from the country to Nigeria. India is currently witnessing what has been described as a devastating second wave of […]
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Traditional rulers from Yewa land in the Ogun West Senatorial District of Ogun State, led by the Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, returned to the Senate on Monday in support of their representative, Senator Tolu Odebiyi, who sponsored a bill on the establishment of the National Institute for Border Studies, in Imeko, Ogun West […]
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The Chief Judge of Katsina State, Justice Musa- Danladi Abubakar, has granted bail to 256 offenders and released seven others in correctional centers in the state. Justice Abubakar told journalists after the exercise on Monday that he embarked on the visitation to correctional centers across the state with a view to decongesting them and enabling […]
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Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai Bandits again on Sunday struck in Kaduna State, killing one person and abducting four others when they attacked Haske Baptist Church in Mannai Tasha village in Kuriga ward of the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. An eyewitness, Yakubu Bala, told one of our correspondents that the bandits invaded […]
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