President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a 16-man new board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, with Dr. Pius Odubu from Edo State as the chairman. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary (General Services Office), office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olusegun Adekunle, on behalf of the SGF, however, said that […]
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Taiwan on Tuesday says its population has reduced for the first time in the first six months of 2019, which may affect the island’s economic prospect and social structure. The latest reports showed a total of 88,098 people died in Taiwan from January to June in 2019 while only 86,961 infants were born. Local media […]
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says:“Nigeria is engaging the Saudi authorities through diplomatic channels with a view to finding a just solution.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described as untrue reports making the rounds that 23 Nigerians allegedly convicted for drug offences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been executed. The ministry made this known in a statement […]
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The Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinaya Abaribe, lambasted the Nigerian Bar Association on Tuesday for “failing to speak up” when President Muhammadu Buhari suspended former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. Hee said the Senate waited in vain for the NBA and the judiciary to act in order to save the situation, because the […]
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Nigerian security agencies will open an investigation after a British judge paved the way for a private firm to seize more than $9 billion in government assets over a failed gas deal, the information minister said Tuesday. The judge in London this month gave Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) the green light to claim […]
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Former Deputy President of the Senate of Nigeria, Senator Ike Ekweremadu recently experienced a dose of the peoples’ fury against what some self-appointed ‘ambassadors’ daubed ‘bad politics’ in faraway Nuremberg, Germany. The proscribed Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) claimed responsibility for the assault and vowed to attack more Nigerian officials who travel outside the country. […]
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Mr Ahmad Abdulrahman has been posted to Enugu State as the new state police commissioner, CP. Police Inspector General, Mr Mohammed Adamu, approved the posting with immediate effect according to a statement on Tuesday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Frank Mba. Abdulrahman takes over from Mr Suleiman Balarabe, who has been redeployed to […]
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The results of the 2019 polls in Abia State have brought the state into a curious public focus. The polls saw two Abia State ex-governors, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, and his successor, Chief Theodore Orji, who both governed the state for two terms of eight years each, elected into the Senate. While Orji was re-elected […]
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disqualifies Newswatch ex-Editor Yakubu Mohammed, 11 others The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has cleared Governor Yahaya Bello to vie for a second term in the governorship poll. Also, three other aspirants, comprising a serving member of the House of Representatives, Yahaya Abdullahi; Abubakar Bashir and Mrs. Ekele Aishat Blessing, got the nod of the […]
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The move by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to fully implement the Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO) designed in 2015 and the Minimum Remittance Order for the Year 2019 has raised new arguments on the structure of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). NERC has the mandate to implement the Electric Power Sector Reform (EPSR) […]
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