The Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association is currently holding at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, respectively are present at the event. The vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, is also present […]
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) said on Monday that the Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, would pay for any attack on Eastern Security Network (ESN) operatives in the zone henceforth. It warned the Senator to stay off the activities of the ESN, stressing that his insistence on using soldiers on its members would […]
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Photo/Facebook/TheAsoVilla An Abuja-based lawyer, Oladimeji Felix Ekengba has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs before a Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging their alleged unlawful interference in the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). At the center of the alleged undue interference in […]
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The United Nations has appointed Kelechi Unono-Okagbare, Nigeria-born entrepreneur, business consultant, and the managing director of De Sure-Fraimz Total Investment Limited as the International Peace and Governing Council’s (IPGC) Special Envoy on investment to Abia state. The appointment which commences in August 2022 was announced during the just concluded UN Pan African Leadership and Symposium […]
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Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration’s transformational policies in the education sector have been attributed to the recent ranking of Enugu State as first among public secondary schools that presented candidates for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examination in Nigeria, in 2021. According to recent data released by WAEC and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) […]
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Photo/Facebook/TheAsoVilla For all it is worth, President Muhammadu Buhari’s second stint at the helm of affairs has proven to be a disaster of incalculable proportion. All social malaise erstwhile alien to the old general – terrorism, banditry, kidnappings, daylight robbery, infiltrations and sabotage of security agencies, oil thieving cartels, corruption, economic free-fall, widespread inefficiency, administrative […]
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The Federal Government on Saturday called on the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider the plights of Nigerian students who have stayed at home for six months and call off the strike. Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah, made the call in Owerri while fielding questions from Journalists. He said […]
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Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has charged Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and all consultants in the $418.9 million Paris Club loan refund to refrain from media propaganda and await an appeal court verdict on the matter. In a statement, yesterday, the spokesman of […]
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NCC issues UASL to Mafab as MTN begins with demo Country to join South Africa and Kenya as leaders on the regional deployment list Device availability, affordability pose a huge challenge Though MTN has expressed readiness to launch the Fifth-Generation (5G) network this month, at most this quarter, Mafab Communications has, however, got a five-month […]
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Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu INECIndependent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the results of the 2023 general elections will be transmitted electronically. It clarified that it has not jettisoned electronic transmission of results for manual process. National Commissioner (Information and Voter Education Committee), Festus Okoye, who made the clarification in a statement, yesterday, […]
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