President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to disregard conspiracy theories claiming that the COVID-19 pandemic was created by foreign countries to depopulate Africa or to make money for Western pharmaceutical companies. He gave the warning in his ‘get well soon’ message to the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, who was recently diagnosed with the COVID-19 […]
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No fewer than 20 persons have died while seven sustained injuries in road crashes in Bauchi State. Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Yusuf Abdullahi, confirmed the crashes, which happened on Sunday night. He blamed speeding for the accidents, adding that the first crash involved two vehicles, an 18-seater Toyota Hummer bus, […]
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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has asked the police to investigate the claims by social media personality, Kemi Olunloyo, that the late Dowen College schoolboy Sylvester Oromoni Jnr was in the process of joining a cult when he died. Olunloyo’s story contradicts claims by the Oromonis that Sylvester was […]
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The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has sued the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and the Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS) over alleged rights violation. Kanu, in the suit filed by his lawyer, Maxwell Opara, before the Federal High Court in […]
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Senate President Ahmad Lawan yesterday spoke on the controversy over salaries and allowances of members of the National Assembly. He said contrary to allegations of “jumbo pay,” the National Assembly is grossly underfunded in Nigeria compared to other presidential democracies. The Senate President, who was guest lecturer at the maiden edition of the “Distinguished Parliamentarians […]
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Leads 113 others in NUC’s ranking FUTA follows The National Universities Commission (NUC) has ranked the University of Ibadan (UI) the best in its latest 2021 ranking released yesterday in Abuja. The ranking, which had 12 indicators, involved 113 universities across the country. The institutions were ranked on the basis of the total number of […]
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Some of the Governors Governors of the 36 states of the federation yesterday lost in their bid to hold down the Federal Government from deducting $418 million from their monthly allocations to settle their contractual obligations in the Paris Club refund. In a ruling at the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice Inyang Ekwo refused a […]
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By Lucas Ajanaku Two decades after the liberalisation of the telecoms sector, MTN Nigeria is opening a new vista of opportunity to democratise its ownership by allowing retail investors to share in its fortunes. LUCAS AJANAKU writes on the prospects and challenges of the initiative. When former President Olusegun Obasanjo liberalised the telecoms sector to […]
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INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu Direct primary will ensure free, fair polls, tame corruption – Bamidele, Moro The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it has the capacity to monitor any form of primary, whether direct or indirect, that may be conducted by the political parties. Its National Commissioner in charge of Information and […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said only Computer-Based Centres that are 100 per cent prepared will be used for its 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board announced this in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja. […]
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