The Northern Governors’ Forum on Thursday said it is pleased with President Bola Tinubu’s intervention to prevent a recurrence of the killings in Plateau and Kaduna states. The chairman of the Forum, Governor Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State, also thanked the administration for providing support and relief materials to the survivors and families of the […]
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EXPECTATIONS that the Port Harcourt Refinery Company would come on stream by December, as promised by the Federal Government, have again been dashed. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri, had indicated the “mechanical completion” of repairs and promised that the refinery would resume operations by the end of the year, but this […]
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MANY Nigerians are set to feel the pinch of hunger more badly in 2024. This is the projection of the World Bank, confirming the privation Nigerians have been undergoing because of the depressed economy. The December 2023 report predicted that “persistent insecurity, armed conflict, and deteriorating livelihoods will continue to affect local government areas in […]
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LUCKY Aiyedatiwa, the new Governor of Ondo State, has very challenging tasks ahead of him. The erstwhile Deputy Governor was swiftly inaugurated as governor on December 27 following the tragic death of the governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, after a protracted illness. This immediately doused the political tensions that had nearly boiled over during Akeredolu’s period of […]
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The number of federally-owned universities in Nigeria may hit 99 in the coming months as a bill to establish 47 new ones has scaled through a second reading. This is just as about 56 bills have passed for a second reading to establish Federal Medical Centres in different parts of the country. Currently, there are […]
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The Minister of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy Hannatu Musawa has urged Nigerians to pray that the ailing movie star Zack Orji receives healing soonest. She disclosed that the veteran actor had brain surgery on January 1, 2024. Zack, 64, slumped on December 29 and was admitted to the intensive care unit of the […]
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By Banji Ayoola The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State on Thursday appointed Hon Tola Alabere as the State Acting Chairman. This was confirmed at a press conference after an emergency meeting of its leaders in the state at the party’s state secretariat in Akure by the party’s state Publicity Secretary, Hon Kennedy Ikantu […]
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By Abdu Rafiu One cannot but be struck by the spate of deaths that occurred in the year that has just passed. I am not referring to those who left at what may pass as a ripe old age. Some left in their prime. And when you add those who passed away through the banditry […]
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Officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have rescued a middle-aged woman who jumped into the Gbodofon River in a suicide bid in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Osun NSCDC spokesperson, ASC Adeleke Kehinde, on Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Kehinde said the NSCDC […]
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Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan says he owes no apology to anyone for supporting the re-election of Douye Diri as Bayelsa State Governor in the November 11, 2023, governorship poll. He said his public support for the governor was in line with the aspirations of the majority of the people of Bayelsa State. The former president said […]
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