2023: Jonathan backs PDP’s Atiku-Okowa presidential bid

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed the candidacy of Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party for the positions of President and Vice President respectively in the coming 2023 elections. Jonathan revealed this when a PDP delegation led by Okowa as well as Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State visited him in […]

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Oyo parleys UNICEF to end poverty through cash transfer

Oyo State Statistician-General, Mr. Teslim Adejuwon; SSA on Budget to the Governor, Mr. Ogunsaya; SA on Budget to the Gov; UNICEF Rep. Mrs. Hope Oduma; Commissioner for Budget & Economic Planning, Prof. Musbau Babatunde; SA Legal, Ms. Ifedolapo Ologuro Oyo State Government and the United Nation Children’s Funds (UNICEF) on Thursday, agreed to tackle poverty, […]

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453 local contractors bid for 2020/2021 UBEC/SUBEB school projects in Oyo

The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr Nureni Aderemi Adeniran addressing stakeholders during the exercise We’ve accessed all accrued funds till date – Adeniran UBEC attests to the Oyo Govt’s commitment to Education No fewer than 453 local contractors on Thursday participated in an open bidding for the construction/renovation of public schools […]

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Doubts as Nigeria negotiates debt relief with World Bank, IMF

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Aliyu Ahmed (left); Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed; Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele; Deputy Governor, Economic Policy, Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Kingsley Obiora; and Director, Monetary Policy Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Hassan Mahmud at the on-going yearly meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank […]

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Nigeria earns N122.8b from cocoa in three months – FG

CFAN to begin biometric data of cocoa farmers, decorate Ooni as grand patron The Federal Government has said that the country earned N122.89 billion from the export of raw cocoa beans and cocoa products in the first quarter of 2022 in the country. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammed Abubakar, disclosed this, yesterday, in […]

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Travel agencies to storm National Assembly over $300m trapped fund

‘How govt’s negligence enhances foreign airlines’ exploitation of Nigerians’ Worried by the chaotic status of international travels in the country, travel agencies, will next week, take complaints to the National Assembly to seek legislative intervention on the foreign airlines’ protracted stuck fund crisis rocking the air transport sector. Over 2000 travel agencies, under the aegis […]

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PDP woos aggrieved party members, BoT delays report

In a move aimed at consolidating his foothold in states controlled by the five aggrieved governors, chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party have started wooing loyalists of Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State; Seyi Makinde (Oyo State), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia State), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu State) and Samuel Ortom (Benue State). The move, it was gathered, […]

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Lagos probes nurses for filming Rico Swavey’s last moments

A 30-second video clip showing the final moments of a former reality TV star, Patrick Fakoya, aka Rico Swavey, at a hospital in Lagos State, has attracted condemnation from members of the public. In the clip recorded by one of the nurses attending to Rico Swavey, the deceased was placed on oxygen as he was […]

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