Buhari approves more security operatives, arms for Imo

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a fresh range of solutions, including the deployment of more security personnel, arms and ammunition to douse the security situation in Imo State. Imo Governor Hope Uzodinma, who revealed the outcome of his meeting with Buhari in Abuja, also denied allegations of the culpability of his administration in the reign […]

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Queues persist in northern states despite 1.824 billion litres fuel supply

• National oil company denies PMS price review claims The queues by motorists for Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, particularly in Abuja and northern states have refused to clear despite the supply of about 1.824 billion litres of PMS by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. Also, the NNPC on Sunday denied claims that […]

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2022 UTME: JAMB laments low turnout of candidates, insists on March 26 registration deadline

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it would not extend the March 26, 2022 deadline for registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) exercises. Its Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, said the board will not extend the exercise because it was working on a “tight schedule.” Oloyede said this […]

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Slain OAU student Adegoke: Court adjourns hearing of murder case

An Osun State High Court in Osogbo has adjourned the murder trial of a postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke. At the resumed hearing on Monday, the presiding Judge and Chief Justice of Osun State High Court, Adepele Ojo, granted the defence counsel’s request to move its no-case submission, and adjourned hearing […]

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US Senate to consider first Black woman for Supreme Court

Senators were warned on Monday that history would be their judge as they launched marathon confirmation hearings to consider the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court. President Joe Biden’s pick to join the nation’s highest court was formally introduced at the start […]

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Buni resumes duty at APC secretariat amid rousing welcome

The Chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, on Monday, in Abuja resumed his duties at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress. Buni who arrived at the Secretariat on Monday afternoon was greeted to a rousing welcome from workers and management. He was almost supplanted […]

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Nigeria facing serious economic, security challenges, APC Senator Abiru admits

Nigeria is facing serious economic and security challenges, the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Tokunbo Abiru, has said. Addressing a press conference on his stewardship in the last 14 months in the Senate, Abiru said at no time in Nigeria’s recent history has the economy, well-being, peace and unity been so vigorously and persistently […]

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Of OAU and politics of indigenisation

By Folorunso Fatai Adisa When a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli, said “A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning,” most Nigerian universities were absent. As confirmed by the current primitive activities that are trailing the emergence of the Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, at the moment, […]

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Court sacks 20 Cross River lawmakers over defection from PDP to APC

We are not aware of court judgment sacking us – Speaker The Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked two members of the House of Representatives and 18 members of the House of Assembly from Cross River State over their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP […]

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Kekemeke: The man who will be APC National Vice Chairman (South West)

By Banji Ayoola A former governorship aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State, Mr Duerimini Isaac Kekemeke, has been picked by the South West geopolitical zone of the ruling party as the region’s consensus National Vice Chairman (South West) candidate. Notably, while the political water in the state […]

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