Says too many gaps, errors, omissions in report render it hoax It’s nothing but triumph of fake news, intimidation of silent majority by a vociferous lynch mob It ignored 57 Nigerians, 37 policemen and 6 soldiers killed during EndSARs protests Information and Culture minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, dismissed as a sham, the report […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari presenting the budget to the National Assembly The Senate Committee on Environment, yesterday, said it had discovered some N16 billion included in the 2022 budget of the Ministry of Environment for servicing of debts believed to have been collected by state governments. Chairman of the panel, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, made the revelation […]
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Africa’s trailblazing Nobel laureate in literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday, said Nigeria has reached a stage “where a series of town hall meetings should be organised to ask ourselves retrospective questions about what has happened to us.” Speaking during the presentation and discussion of his book, ‘Chronicles From the Land of The Happiest People on […]
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Ahead of the December 1 deadline for the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal civil servants, the Federal Government has warned employees who love their jobs to go and get vaccinated. Despite criticisms that have trailed the directive, which was first announced in September, the Federal Government, yesterday, insisted that its decision was in the best […]
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I won’t resign, says Lai Mohammed The Federal Government has rejected the report of the panel on #EndSARS protest in Lagos. It insisted that there was no massacre in Lekki Toll Gate. It said the report in circulation does not justify any massacre at the toll gate. It faulted the alleged notion that soldiers and […]
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Chairman, APC Caretaker Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State (left); Chairman, Progressive Governors Forum (PGF)/Kebbi helmsman, Atiku Bagudu and his Jigawa counterpart, Badaru Abubakar, after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja… yesterday. Photo: Philip Ojisua • I’m not jobless, Buni dismisses plan to extend CECPC tenure • Presidency […]
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The West African Examination Council disclosed on Monday that 81.7 per cent of students who sat for the Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examination in 2021 had credits in five subjects including Mathematics and English. Giving a breakdown of this year’s examination, WAEC Head of National Office, Patrick Areghan, said a total of 1,573,849 candidates registered […]
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Oyo State Gaming Board has said it is ready to enforce the law to ban companies that engage in unregistered promotional lotteries in the state. The Director-General of the Board, Mr. Olajide Boladuro, who said this also also warned residents of the state to beware of companies and organisations who were luring them with unrealistic […]
Continue ReadingEbun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), one of the members of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, has raised the alarm over the alleged plan to take his life following the report by the panel that protesters were killed at the Lekki toll gate on October […]
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Hoodlums have attacked and macheted an #EndSARS protester, Kamsiyochukwu Ibe, who testified before a Lagos judicial panel on the alleged role of the military and the police in the Lekki shooting of October 20, 2021, one of the panel members, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), has said. The senior advocate also raised the alarm over the alleged […]
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