Govt vows to rescue victims Says State won’t be haven for kidnappers, bandits Kidnappers of funeral guests who were picked along Owo/Benin highway in Ifon, Ose local government area of Ondo State at the weekend, have contacted the victims’ families demanding ransom ranging between N3 million and N10 million. This was confirmed on Monday by […]
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‘Noise out of lack of defence’ Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Thursday, declared that state governors have no basis to complain about deductions from the Paris Club refund paid to consultants they hired. He said that the noise making arising from the governors forum was not only unjustified, […]
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has promised to give 40 per cent of his cabinet positions to women and youths if elected in the 2023 elections. While emphasising the importance of women and youths in national development, he raised concern over the high cost of living in Nigeria, blaming […]
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Mr Oluwemimo Ogunde, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former Attorney General of Ogun State, and one of the children of the departed theatre maestro, Chief Hubert Ogunde, takes Emmanuel Ojo down the memory lane on the life and times of his father. Your dad was a strong force in the Nigerian theatre art space. […]
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Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has promised to give 40 per cent of his cabinet positions to women and youths if elected President in the 2023 general elections. While emphasising the importance of women and youths in national development, he raised concern over the high cost of living in the country, blaming […]
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The two-week ultimatum issued by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors to the Federal and state governments ends today (Monday). The association has, however, scheduled its extraordinary National Executive Council meeting for Saturday, September 10, 2022, in Jos, Plateau State, to deliberate on the ultimatum. The resident doctors had on July 30, 2022, issued a […]
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Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN President, Dr Daniel Okoh, has urged Christian leaders and churches across the country to be non-partisan in election matters. He also Nigerians to be properly guided in making the right decisions in the next presidential election. Okoh made the call in Onitsha, on Sunday, during the 75th-anniversary celebration of the […]
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Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has disclosed that the Federal Government has settled a long-standing $5.26bn contractual dispute with a foreign investor group in the steel sector for $496m. A statement on Sunday by the Special Assistant, Media and Public Relations, Office of the AGF, Dr Umar Gwandu, said the […]
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Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on Sunday insisted that daily supply of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, across the country was 68 million and offered to submit itself for forensic audit of PMS supply and subsidy management. Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), had earlier said NNPC could not justify the […]
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Davido, Olamide, Wizkid, Adekunle Gold Nigerian Singers, Davido, Olamide, Wizkid, and Adekunle Gold have won individual awards at the ongoing 2022 Headies in Atlanta, United States of America. Nigerian songwriter, Buju BNXN, had earlier won the 2022 Headies Next Rated award. See the full list of winners below. Best Rap Album – Olamide (Carpe Diem) […]
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