President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a new set of aides for his wife, Aisha. The appointments are with immediate effect. The appointments were announced in a statement issued on Wednesday by her Director of Information, Suleiman Haruna. The appointees are Dr. Mairo Almakura, Special Assistant (African First Ladies Peace Mission); Muhammed Albishir, […]
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• Leadership accused of sharing 100 job slots• Aggrieved lawmakers vow showdown• Commission cautions against police jobs Anger and suspicion are brewing in the Senate. These have been provoked by some members of the upper legislative chamber using their official positions to allegedly get job slots from government agencies. Already, the Senate committee charged with […]
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continues negotiation with FG today Both sides yield grounds towards healthy resolution Talks between the Federal Government and Labour will continue today over the consequential adjustment of the new N30,00 minimum wage. However, dousing the tension that had been gripping the industrial sector over allegedly impending total strike by workers with effect from today, Labour […]
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Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has confirmed that she was the one speaking angrily in a video that went viral after she was allegedly denied access to an apartment at the presidential villa by the family of her husband’s nephew, Alhaji Mamman Daura. “I was the one in that video and the person you […]
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By Nelson Fadoju Hear Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, an applied geophysicist: “AFTER INDEPENDENCE, IN ORDER TO BUILD A GREAT NATION, EACH COUNTRY WENT TO WORK._ *BUT IN NIGERIA, AFTER INDEPENDENCE (IN 1960), OUR PEOPLE WENT TO PRAY AND FAST.* SO, WHILE WE WERE PRAYING, *MALAYSIA CAME HERE AND TOOK […]
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By Akinpelu Olujoba “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”(Matthew 4:4) With these words Jesus sternly rebuffed the Tempter, Lucifer! After baptism in the Jordan, the bandages fell from the eye of the Christ. He […]
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The police have rescued over 300 children and youths from a small building called ‘reformation centre’ at Sabon Gari area of Daura, Katsina State, where the victims were subjected to abuse, sexual assaults, serious torture and various forms of inhuman treatment. The incident happened barely three weeks after another batch of about 500 boys and […]
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A former governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi has decried over monetisation in Nigeria, saying Nigerian workers should hold government accountable rather than always ask for money. Makarfi, who is a member of Schools Old Students Association (USOSA), stated this during the association’s 36th Plenary and Annual General Meeting (AGM), which was held at […]
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Lalong, Chairman Northern Governors Forum The Northern Governors Forum (NGF), elders and community leaders have perfected plans to ensure peaceful coexistence between Jukun and Tiv communities of Taraba State before the end of the month. A communiqué issued in Abuja after a two-day conflict resolution meeting of the NGF, elders, and leaders of both communities, […]
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