The National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, says the country is still losing 400,000 barrels of crude oil daily to local and international thieves despite efforts to end the menace. He confirmed this when he led a presidential delegation to inspect oil and gas facilities at Owaza in Abia and Odogwa in Etche Local […]
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President Bola Tinubu has said he has been holding the Economic Community of West African States from deploying its military option on the Niger Republic crisis. Tinubu said this while hosting the United States Presidential Envoy and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Molly Phee, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Saturday. The […]
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The Niger junta has ordered its armed forces to go on the highest alert, citing an increased threat of attack. This was according to an internal document issued by its defence chief on Friday that a security source in the country confirmed was authentic. According to Reuters, the document, which was shared online on Saturday, […]
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World Record holder in the 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, has assured Nigerians of a better outing in the next Olympic Games in Paris, France. Amusan could not defend her World title at the 19th World Athletics Championships in Budapest, but her World Record of 12.12secs set at Oregon, U.S. last year, is still intact. Speaking […]
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Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan reacts after the women’s 100m hurdles semi-final during the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek / AFP) The Board of Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) on Saturday urged Tobi Amusan to work harder following her inability to defend her title at […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) are probing Muhyi Rimingado over alleged corruption. While a letter by the EFCC asked Rimingado, chairman of Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), to send PCACC’s director of finance and accounts to appear at its headquarters in Abuja on […]
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This photo taken and handout on August 25, 2023, by The Vatican Media shows Pope Francis meeting with Katalin Novak, President of Hungary in The Vatican. (Photo by Simone Risoluti / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / VATICAN MEDIA” – NO MARKETING – NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS […]
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Scene of crash. Pix: ARY News A minibus carrying mountaineers in Iran plunged into a ravine, killing 10 people, state media reported Saturday. The accident occurred on Friday near the city of Varzaghan, in East Azerbaijan province, said the provincial emergency services spokesman, Vahid Shadinia, according to state news agency IRNA. The minibus was heading […]
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By Dan Agbese President Bola Tinubu has a full plate. Even his worst political enemies could not have wished him the many troubles he faces. To take a random inventory: he faces a tanked national economy on the brink of total collapse. He faces hungry citizens whose stomachs are rumbling, indicative of the absence of […]
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Presentation of three reports on the 2023 general elections by an observer monitoring group, Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA), in Abuja yesterday Following the challenges faced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the 2023 general elections, election experts have called on the national assembly to further amend the 2022 Electoral Act in order […]
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