Photo/faceboo/rotimiaketi Flays FG for permitting non-state actors to bear arms, denying licence for Amotekun Contract might spike fresh wave of insecurity in Niger Delta, says activist Obi challenges FG to name ‘highly placed’ oil thieves CBN: Crude oil earnings decline by 29% from N1.1tr to N790b in Q1, 2022 Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), […]
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• Urge govt to hands off varsity education, empower governing councils • Students count losses of ASUU strike, call for PPP option • ASUU monopoly responsible for incessant strikes- CONUA With the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) still on strike after six months of industrial action, concerned Nigerians have called for an alternative resolution […]
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Ex-aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri; and a human rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, on Wednesday berated the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for seeking Jonathan’s support in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Tinubu, on Tuesday night, paid a scheduled visit to Jonathan in Abuja. The meeting, which was […]
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• ‘Those calling for my resignation are children’ • Court adjourns Wike’s suit against Atiku, PDP to September 14 • Obi didn’t strike deal with Atiku, says Okupe • Omokri, Adeyanju slam Tinubu over visit to Jonathan • Tinubu’s visit shows no ideological difference on politics, says Farounbi The war of words between the two […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday said Nigeria’s democracy was drifting towards dictatorship, insisting that all hands must be on the deck to save it. He spoke at the 70th birthday of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, in Abuja. Speaking on the theme of the event, ‘Nigeria’s unfinished greatness: Next steps,’ Jonathan […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the union is open to the Progressives Governors Forum’s offer to take over negotiation aimed at ending the ongoing strike if it will be sincere. The union’s National Vice-President, Dr Christopher Piwuna, disclosed this in an interview on Wednesday. PGF Chairman, who also is the Kebbi State […]
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Kremlin says his death a great loss Russia remembers ex-leader The lying-in-state ceremony for the first and only President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday, will take place on Saturday, September 3, in the House of the Unions in Moscow, between 10:00 and 14:00 Moscow time. Gorbachev Foundation spokesman, Vladimir Polyakov disclosed […]
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A meeting of former presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress scheduled for Abuja on Wednesday failed to hold. The postponement of the meeting was announced a few hours to its commencement. It was gathered that the meeting was cancelled because of the non-commitment of the aspirants, many of whom had indicated that they would […]
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Putin, as Russian president, met with Gorbachev several times Russian President Vladimir Putin offers his deepest condolences over the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Wednesday. “Vladimir Putin expresses his deepest condolences over the death of Mikhail Gorbachev. In the morning he will send a telegram with […]
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Gorbachev was Soviet president for six years Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram on Wednesday with deep condolences to the family and friends of Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only USSR president who died at the age of 91 on Tuesday. The former leader died at the Central Clinical Hospital on August 30. “Mikhail […]
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