The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has summoned the heads of aviation agencies in the country over recurring safety issues in the industry. The meeting, scheduled for Monday in Abuja, will bring together executives from the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigeria Safety Investigation […]
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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, has waded into the challenges of constant price increment of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in the country’s domestic market. The intervention on LPG (cooking gas) follows the rise in the price of LPG per kg in recent months, from about N700 to above N900 in […]
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David Umahi The Federal Government has addressed concerns regarding the deteriorating conditions of several federal roads across the country. The deplorable federal roads, including the Makurdi-Nsukka 9th Mile Road, East-West Road, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Benin bypass road, collapsed bridges on the Enugu-Port Harcourt road, Shandam-Plateau State, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road, and Gombe-Bauchi, among others, In a statement on […]
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Edo State deputy governor Philip Shaibu Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has officially declared to run for the 2024 governorship election in the state. Shaibu, in a pre-recorded speech aired today (Monday, said he would run for the governorship position on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). After his official declaration, Shaibu […]
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Bello • Traditional ruler gets 48 hours to answer query over ‘partisan politics’ • Party demands apology, threatens suit against Commissioner for Justice • Youth coalition tasks judiciary on neutrality, anti-democratic forces • Kano traders: We are not planning any protest over A’ Court verdict Although gubernatorial elections have been held in Kano and Kogi […]
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• Beyond his public address at the Bankers’ Night in Lagos at the weekend, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, has kick-started a new era of banking supervision and the conduct of monetary policy in earnest. Already, bank chiefs who are in the queue to curry the favour of the governor […]
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Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral workers in St Stephen’s cathedral in Budapest on April 28, 2023 during his second visit to Hungary in less than two years. – The Pope will meet refugees, believers, students, church and state leaders during his tree-day trip and celebrates […]
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New board members in Osun State have been asked to focus mainly on working towards the realization of the five-points agenda of the Ademola Adeleke administration. Chairman of Osun State Tourism Board, Mr Taiwo Adeleke, gave this charge in his office, while welcoming the agency’s board members who were newly-inaugurated by the State governor. Noting […]
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Despite the impressive scorecard presented by the governor, the opposition has said that the Ademola Adeleke administration in Osun State has performed woefully in office in the past one year. Assessing the performance of the Adeleke-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, administration in the past one year, the chairman of the state’s Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), […]
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My administration has surpassed the annual good governance target it set while assuming office in November 27, 2022. Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke, beating his chest, made the above declaration in a special interview with some journalists before he embarked on a working vacation. In his words: “When I assumed office, we had benchmarks and […]
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