Nigeria on Wednesday instructed her lawyers to appeal against the payment of $200 million US dollars payment which was a condition for the granting of the stay of execution in the $9.6bn award in favour of Process and Industrial Development Limited. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this in Abuja noted that […]
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By Reuben Abati Today marks the 59thanniversary of Nigeria’s independence from British colonial rule. On Saturday, October 1, 1960, Nigerians gathered at the Race Course (now Tafawa Balewa Square) in Lagos as Princess Alexandra, the representative of Her Majesty the Queen of England handed over the instruments and symbols of independence to Prime Minister Tafawa […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has taken a critical look at Nigeria after 59 years of independence and gave a pass mark to the APC led Federal and State Governments despite the challenges being faced in the country. Represented by his Deputy, Hon Agboola Ajayi at a church service to mark Nigèria’s 59th anniversary […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has vowed to sack the incumbent Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, from power in the forthcoming governorship election in the state next year, even as the party’s National Vice Chairman, Olorogun Eddy Olafeso, formally declared his intention to contest the election. Akeredolu, who would be contesting for his second […]
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People’s Democratic Party, PDP, chairman in Ondo State, Engineer Clement Faboyede, has said that his party would sack the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2020 governorship election. Faboyede, who gave the assurance that the party is putting its house in order ahead of the upcoming election next year, said that the party’s primaries, which […]
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The last of the haywire politics heralding the emergence of Senator Douye Diri as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the November 16,2019 gubernatorial poll in Bayelsa may not have been heard, as the state House of Assembly yesterday ‘impeached’ and ‘elected’ a new speaker under a tense milieu in alleged defiance of the […]
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At least, 1,000 pupils of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, have been taken home by their parents after the outbreak of what is suspected to be an infection. “It is over 1,000 (pupils) now as we speak. See, I cannot talk about what I don’t know. What you have in your palm, you don’t need a […]
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Twenty-one years of unbroken democracy is the small prize the country with the largest back population has managed to clinch out of its 59 chequered years since independence in 1960. A small prize indeed, but one worth celebrating all the same. But the larger 59 years of her existence are ones of mixed feelings and […]
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Nigerian children attend independence day celebrations in Lagos on October 1. Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP Unlike the usual National Day celebration, when Nigerians from every tribe and tongue mark the anniversary of Nigeria’s independence with pomp, restful holidaying and extravagant celebrations, the queries that have been raised about the state of our national well-being go […]
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says Nigeria would emerge from her present challenges stronger, more resilient than ever President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration has made remarkable progress in the agriculture value chain, from fertilizers to rice, to animal feed production towards the Nation’s food security. The president, who revealed this in his Independence Day broadcast on Tuesday, warned that […]
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