Edo, Ondo polls will be credible – INEC

INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it is committed to a credible electoral process in the coming Edo and Ondo governorship elections. Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, made this known at a webinar on Edo/Ondo elections, organised by the International Press Centre (IPC) and […]

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Senate extends memoranda submission for constitution review

The Senate Ad hoc Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution has extended deadline for submission of memoranda till September 18, 2020, The Nation has learnt. Based on an advertorial by the Committee, the two weeks period for the submission ended on Tuesday. However, a source close to the Committee, said the extension of time […]

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Students protest fuel, electricity, others’ hike

Students under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Ondo, Ogun, Oyo and Osun states chapters, have demanded the immediate reversal of the recent increase in fuel pump price, electricity tariff, bank charges and other increments recently made in the country. The students, who trooped out in their large numbers yesterday at […]

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Catholic cleric, Arogundade faults fuel, electricity prices hike

Catholic Bishop of Ondo Diocese, Most Reverend, Jude Ayodeji Arogundade has described the increase of petroleum and electricity prices as being insensitive to the plights of the masses, warning that all sectors of the economy are heading towards collapse. He declared that Nigeria needs a hero to be able to turn things around so that […]

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FG directs hospitals to replace striking doctors with NYSC members

The Federal Government has directed tertiary hospitals to engage the services of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members to maintain routine services in place of striking resident doctors. Minister of Health Dr Osagie Ehanire said the measure was to “mitigate the effect” of the strike by resident doctors across the country. National Association of Resident […]

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30% petrol smuggled out of Nigeria – Report

The absence of subsidies in neigbouring countries has created the incentive to smuggle about 30 per cent of petrol meant for Nigeria to the neighbouring nations. This is contained in a publication by the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria on Tuesday, which said that Nigeria had been subsidising petrol for neighbouring nations for many […]

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Ondo poll: INEC recruits 17,000 ad hoc staff

Ahead of the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State, the electoral body said that no fewer than 17,000 persons would be recruited as ad-hoc staff for the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission. According to the commission, the recruits comprised 15,000 corps members and 5,000 undergraduates of the federal higher institutions in the […]

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Tukur Yusuf Buratai, the Kuta – Ikoyi – Ede Osun Bridge jinx breaker

By Banji Ayoola The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai, has been aptly described as a jinx breaker by the Olowu of Kuta, in Ayedire Local Government Area of Osun State, Oba Adekunle Oyelude, Tegbosun the Third, popularly called Makama. He is called so for mobilising the Engineering Corps of the Army […]

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Chief of Army Staff, Buratai commissions Kuta – Ikoyi – Ede Bridge September 14

By Banji Ayoola The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai, will on Monday, September 14 commission the age-long bridge over Osun River, which links Kuta, Ikoyi and Ede communities in Ayedire and Ede Local Government Areas of Osun State. Also to be commissioned by Buratai is the new magnificent Palace of Olowu […]

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Fuel price hike: Buhari, APC failed Nigerians – PDP

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress have failed Nigerians. He said the PDP under his leadership identifies with the suffering citizens who have been exposed to unprecedented hardships, poverty, hunger, and death on account of the regime’s failure to fulfill its […]

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