By Kingsley Moghalu and Ezekiel Oloriegbe She exhibited an admirable spirit of selflessness. The type that National Awards are made from. We will never forget. Dr Stella Adadevoh would have been 62 today, October 27, 2018, but she is not here with us because of her heroic actions in preventing further spread of the Ebola […]
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The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has criticised the Federal Government for lack of coordination and the nation’s security agencies for not working for a common purpose. As the 2019 elections drew nearer, the Sultan also warned that politicians might want to orchestrate the type of violent crisis that rocked Kaduna last week in […]
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As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to observe the World Polio day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for heightened surveillance if the country is to be certified polio free by the year 2020. In a statement issued to mark the day, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, said it […]
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The Nigerian government on Wednesday has denied it has plans of placing a two-children per family limit on its citizens. Finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, at the 2018 Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, had noted that the Federal Government was planning a birth control policy to check the prevalent poverty and unemployment in the country. She […]
Continue ReadingSaudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished on October 2 after entering the Saudi mission in Istanbul to obtain documents for his wedding AFP/File / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH Turkish intelligence has shared “all the evidence” over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi with the CIA chief during a visit, pro-government media reported on Wednesday. CIA Director Gina […]
Continue ReadingBabatunde Fashola, SAN Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN, has said the present administration has done better in power generation, transmission and distribution than the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did in 16 years of its administration. A statement by the minister’s media office said Fashola made this known while […]
Continue ReadingFormer Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose arriving at the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, Wednesday granted the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, bail in the sum of N50 million.The court also said that he provides a surety who must have landed […]
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Anti-corruption group, Socio-Economic and Rights and Accountability Project, on Tuesday got court’s leave to file for a mandamus order against the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over poor power supply in the country. The mandamus order is to compel Fashola to account for about N900 billion sunk into the privatisation of the electricity […]
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to strike out a suit seeking an order compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate allegations of corruption against him. Justice Anwuli Chikere, on Tuesday, fixed November 19 for the hearing of […]
Continue ReadingThe Senate on Tuesday passed the fourth version of the Electoral Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill, 2018. President Muhammadu Buhari had declined assent to the bill three times, citing some constitutional and drafting issues. During the just-ended annual recess of the National Assembly, its Joint Committee on INEC met to work on the document based on […]
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