Buhari rewards victorious athletes with N200m, National Honours – Update

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved National Honours and cash awards of N200 million for Team Nigeria contingents to the 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Athletics Championships. Speaking at a presidential reception in honour of the athletes, the President said his government is committed to rewarding excellence, no less for members of Team Nigeria who ignited […]

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Buhari rewards Amusan, Brume, others with honours, N200m

President Muhammadu Buhari presenting Tobi Amusan with national honour; Photo: Bashir Ahmad, Twitter President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, approved National Honours of Officer of the Order of the Niger,OON, and cash awards of N200 million for Team Nigeria contingents to the 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Athletics championships. At an award ceremony held at the […]

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Atiku vows to give private sector ‘warm handshake’

Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday vowed to improve Nigeria’s economy with a “warm handshake” for the private sector. He said that Nigeria is currently being dressed in borrowed robes by the ruling All Progressives Congress administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria’s current debt, local and foreign, stands at N41 trillion, […]

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FG needs N15 billion to replace colonial administrative map

Surveyor-general of Federation (OSGoF), Abudulgani Adebomehin, has said it will cost the Federal Government N15 billion to replace the Nigeria’s Administrative Map produced by the colonial masters. He told journalists in Abuja that when they came on board to meet an obsolete map, with many errors, they demanded authentic ones to contribute to the fight […]

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Presidency must come South, ignore religion, Akeredolu insists

Photo/faceboo/rotimiaketi Election opportunity to turn Nigeria’s fortune for good, says CAN president Keyamo: Tinubu strong, healthy, not withdrawing from presidential race Obi moves to sign performance agreement as NLC promises 12m votes PDP crisis: Wike keeps party leaders guessing FRSC bans officers from piloting political convoy ahead of campaigns The dust is yet to settle […]

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House of Reps diaspora committee congratulates Nigerian Kemi Badenoch as new UK Trade Secretary

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, Hon Tolulope Akande-Sadipe has congratulated the Nigerian British lawmaker, Kemi Badenoch on her appointment as Britain’s Secretary of State for International Trade. Born in south London, Kemi Badenoch is the daughter of Prof Feyi Adegoke who attended Queens School, Ibadan. She spent her early years living in […]

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The president Nigeria needs in 2023 – Kukah

Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Kukah, has given an insight into the type of leaders, particularly the person that should be elected by Nigerians as the next president. He said it was important for Nigerians to move away from voting based on ethnic, religious, or political sentiments and vote for someone who is […]

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Nigerian economy gasps for breath as bandits, thieves, saboteurs lay siege

Bandits and banditry found their way into Nigeria’s mainstream media in an attempt to placate barefaced acts of terrorism. With such complicit negligence to reign of terror and attendant existential threats, terrorists have gained swathes of territories. Nigerians and virtually every sector of the economy are currently under siege – a situation compounded by the […]

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Chimamanda: Nigeria in disarray, needs heroes to save her

Chimamanda Adichie speaking at the event Atiku, Obi slam FG, say everything negative, situation pathetic, worst ever   Shettima sells Tinubu’s candidacy Award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, has lamented that Nigeria is in disarray, and needs heroes to save her. She spoke on Monday in her keynote address as guest speaker at the ongoing 62nd Annual General […]

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Nigeria win record 12th gold, post best outing ever

Long jumper Ese Brume on Sunday helped sixth-place Team Nigeria record their best ever outing at the Commonwealth Games in 72 years, after her record-breaking leap of 7.00m at the ongoing edition of the Games in Birmingham. On course to winning the country’s 12th gold medal of the event, Brume achieved it in style, breaking […]

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