The Federal Government is working out all necessary modalities to ensure a smooth implementation of the Oronsanye Report. Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, gave this assurance while speaking with reporters on Tuesday after a visit to the headquarters of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in Abuja. He also shut down […]
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The Federal Government and the states have raised N100bn to procure prepaid electricity meters. Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said this was under the Presidential Meter Initiative programme. He disclosed this while addressing broadcasters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. According to him, President Bola Tinubu’s administration has been trying to close the meter gap […]
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President Bola Tinubu is set to depart for the People’s Republic of China, where he is scheduled to meet with President Xi Jinping in Beijing. Presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this to correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. He stated that President Tinubu will engage in a series of meetings with his Chinese […]
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Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has pledged to support the new Governing Council of Obafemi Awolowo University to take the university to greater heights. Oba Ogunwusi stated this when the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Council, Prof Siyan Oyeweso, led other council members and the management team of Obafemi Awolowo University […]
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) dispelled recent online claims suggesting that Nigerians should avoid bread due to the alleged use of saccharine in its production on Tuesday. In a statement issued by Prof. Christianah Adeyeye, the Director General of NAFDAC, the agency clarified that the circulating video misrepresents NAFDAC’s […]
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The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has said that the Nigerian Army will resist all calls for undemocratic intervention in governance by the Armed Forces of Nigeria, saying it is not poised to lose the new prestige it has painstakingly built in the past 25 years. He stated this in his […]
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Twenty-one states are seeking loans amounting to N1.65 trillion to fund their 2024 budget deficits despite the increase in the allocations they have received from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the last year. From June 2023 to June this year, all 36 states and the 774 local governments received N7.6 trillion from FAAC. […]
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The Naira yesterday depreciated to N1,610 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,600 per dollar last week Friday. Similarly, the Naira yesterday depreciated to N1,596.6 per dollar in the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market, NAFEM. Data from FMDQ showed that the indicative exchange rate for NAFEM rose to N1596.6 per dollar from N1,570.14 per dollar last week Friday, indicating N26.46 depreciation for […]
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A Texas judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause on a policy that would streamline the process for spouses of US citizens to obtain legal status in the country, a blow to one of US President Joe Biden’s biggest immigration reform policies. Judge J. Campbell Barker granted a 14-day administrative stay in a case brought […]
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The United States government donated 10,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine to Nigeria to aid in the fight against monkeypox on Tuesday. The Jynneos vaccine, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is designed to prevent smallpox and monkeypox in adults aged 18 and older who are at risk of infection. During the official […]
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