By Banji Ayoola The coordinator of Asiwaju Tinubu/Shettima Coalition for Good Governance, ATSCGG., in the South West, and Secretary of the Labour Directorate of the defunct APC.’s Presidential Campaign Council, PCC., Ambassador Sola Iji, has congratulated the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on his 71st birthday. In a statement signed on his behalf by Chief ‘Wole […]
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By Sola Lebile As we mourn her painful and irreparable loss, while I visited the deceased’s husband the other day, commiserating with other mourners, I felt a loss of fragrance there at the home. And in a flash, images of certain encounters with her surfaced like a symphony. ‘She has gone!’, I shivered. Olori Helen […]
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By Banji Ayoola The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, promised to build Nigeria that his fellow country’s people generally had been dreaming of. In his 71st birthday special message to Nigerians, his first official statement as president-elect, he said: “Dear Nigerians, I thank all of you who have expressed your goodwill towards me on […]
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Lagos State Government has announced compensation for victims of the collision between a train and a bus conveying staff of the state. In a statement on Tuesday, the state promised to provide employment to one employable child of each of the dead victims of the accident and a concessionary scholarship to one of their biological […]
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Nobody can chase you away from Osun, Adeleke assures Aregbesola Prostrates to greet minister The Federal Government has unveiled a passport production centre and the new Passport Front Office in Ilesa, Osun State. The opening was aimed to make passport application, processing, and production more seamless for the traveling public with the rollout of the […]
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Central Bank of Nigeria has barred banks and other financial institutions seeking a conversion licence from expanding or reducing their current banking network in its new draft guidelines. It discloses this in a circular tagged ‘FPR/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/072’ to banks and other financial institutions, which was titled ‘Regulatory guidelines for change of operational licence for banks and […]
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The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, approved the request by the Federal Government to borrow $973,474,971.38 from China Development Bank. This followed the decision by the China-Exim Bank to reject Nigeria’s $22,798,446,773 loan request earlier approved by the National Assembly. The Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business, Abubakar Fulata, moved a motion […]
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National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, who stepped aside from his position on Tuesday, is set to fight his suspension by a Benue State High Court, Makurdi on Monday. Ayu’s Special Assistant on Communication, Simon Imobo-tswam, disclosed this to our correspondent shortly after the party announced the appointment of the Deputy […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday morning, swore in the new chairman of the Service Commission, former Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase. He took his oath of office at 10:05 am at the council chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in the presence of Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SGF Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff to […]
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The Federal Government, on Tuesday, gave the assurance that the transition of power from President Muhammadu Buhari to the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, would be smooth and peaceful. This was as the government said the refurbishment of offices for the President and Vice-President elect had been completed. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, the Chairman of […]
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