Kyari: FG files 24 charges, seizes 14 mega assets

Agency uncovers shopping malls, others owned by ex-IRT commander The Federal Government has uncovered 14 assets, including shopping malls, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmland belonging to a former commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. Kyari was said to have failed to disclose his ownership of the properties in […]

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Tinubu’s campaign will address issues – Onanuga

The Tinubu Campaign Organisation’s Director of Media and Communications, Bayo Onanuga, in this interview with Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, discusses chances of the All Progressive Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the 2023 election: Why was Bola Tinubu absent from the aborted meeting of the APC presidential aspirants in Abuja? It is not a meeting of […]

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NNPC offers to submit to forensic audit of fuel supply

Insists daily average supply remains 68m litres Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has offered to submit itself to a forensic audit of fuel supply and subsidy management, insisting daily fuel supply is 68 million. In a statement signed by Mallam Garba Deen Muhammad, Group General Manager (Group Public Affairs Division), NNPC said between January […]

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Police intercept 185 parcels of cannabis, neutralise 2 bandits in Katsina

Cannabis; Photo: NAN Katsina State Police Command says it has intercepted 185 sealed parcels of cannabis sativa, known as Indian hemp, and arrested a 58-year-old man suspected to be in possession of the exhibit. Police spokesperson in the state, SP Gambo Isah who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Katsina, said two suspected […]

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Why ovarian, uterine cancers are on rise in black women

A consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist and Medical Director, May Fair Specialist Hospital, Onitsha, Anambra State, Dr. Raphael Nosike Omaliko, has given reasons ovarian and uterine cancers are on the rise, especially among black women. Ovarian, uterine (endometrial) and cervical cancers are the most common gynaecologic cancers, which begin in the female reproductive organs. Less common […]

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Rivers PDP crisis deepens as party chiefs bicker over alleged threat to life

Photo/facebook/GovernorNyesomEzenwoWikeCON Internal row in Rivers State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has deepened as the Chief of Staff to the state governor, Emeka Woke and Senator Lee Maeba, exchanged words over alleged threat to life. Maeba had, on Saturday, alleged that a meeting was held at Government House, Port Harcourt to clampdown on him […]

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Why Igbo are yet to produce Nigeria’s president – Afenifere

Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu (left); former President, Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Hope Uzodinma at the 80th birthday lecture in honour of Chief Iwuanyanwu in Owerri at the weekend The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has identified inequality in local council structure of the country as major reason hampering the quest to produce Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction. […]

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Strike: Buhari urged to emulate Jonathan, engage ASUU personally

‘Strike a national embarrassment’ President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to end the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike, by emulating the strategy adopted by former Predident Goodluck Jonathan in November 2013, during which he personally presided over a meeting with the aggrieved lecturers and had the knotty issues resolved. Convener of the […]

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Commercial banks borrow N4.4tr from CBN in 3 months

34 per cent of commercial loans held by public sector Deposit money banks (DMBs) accessed an accumulated value of N4.4 trillion from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through its overnight lending window from June to August, data sourced from the regulator suggested. Banks regularly access the CBN’s Standard Lending Facility (SLF) to borrow funds, […]

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