The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it will maintain the current ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, until the conclusion of ongoing engagement with the organised labour. The corporation disclosed this in a statement by its spokesman Dr Kenny Obateru, in Abuja, on Friday. Ex-depot price is the price marketers […]
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Personnel of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force (TPDF) move the coffin of the late Tanzanian President John Magufuli for the burial after the farewell mass at Magufuli Stadium in Chato, Tanzania, on March 26, 2021 – Tanzania’s late president John Magufuli was laid to rest Friday in his ancestral village in the country’s northwest after […]
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The Founder of Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Center, US, Dr Godwin Maduka, has promised to make Anambra an affordable health tourism hub, if elected the state governor. He made the promise while speaking with journalists after obtaining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Expression of Interest and nomination forms at the party’s National Secretariat […]
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Lagos State will not compromise on the vaccination protocols rolled out by the Federal Government, Commissioner for Health Prof. Akin Abayomi said on Thursday. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) had accused the state of malpractices in the exercise. Abayomi, who paid an unscheduled visit to some vaccination centres, said the state has […]
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The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, fixed April 23 for judgment in a suit filed by the Ondo State Chief Judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Akeredolu against the state governor and five others over a viral video made by a citizen of the state, Olupelumi Fagboyegun. While the chief judge is the plaintiff, the Attorney General […]
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By Femi Adesina New things are happening at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and suddenly, there’s a throwback to the 1996-1999 Lagos State, when the then Colonel Mohammed Buba Marwa was military administrator. Marwa took a broom, and swept Lagos almost clean. With Operation Sweep, criminals were given bloody noses, and sent scampering […]
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By Tony Afejuku Recent happenings in our country have put me in a melancholic state. One of them, for example, is the return – or the so-called return – from Britain of what has been generally or popularly perceived or accepted as the James Ibori loot. The huge money involved is in the region of […]
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A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Uche Nwosu, has described the prosecution and conviction of a University Professor in Akwa Ibom, Peter Ogban, as a major boost in the efforts to sanitize the electoral process. He commended the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, for setting example that […]
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Abdulsalami, Buhari at Aso Villa on Friday President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting with former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, in Aso Villa, Abuja. Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, said his principal received Abdulsalami on Friday afternoon. “President @MBuhari receives in audience former Head of State Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar […]
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The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has faulted the collection of N10,000 from Nigerians for visa clearance allegedly at the behest of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Led by Ndudi Elumelu (PDP: Delta), the group argued that the policy would place undue pressure on Nigerians travelling abroad. It enjoined the agency […]
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