Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has demanded a written apology from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for placing him on watch list and directing that he should be arrested if he attempted to travel out of the country. He said in a letter to the commission by his lawyer, Mr Obafemi Adewale, […]
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Nugroho got the grim news in January that he was dying and might have as little as a year to live Indonesia’s disaster agency spokesman is fighting a daily battle to update the world 24/7 on the latest developments in a deadly quake-tsunami, despite his own impending date with death from terminal cancer. Sutopo Purwo […]
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Vladimir Putin landed in Delhi where he and Narendra Modi were due to have dinner before the main talks on Friday Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India on Thursday looking to tie up billions of dollars in arms deals with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, likely irking the US, China and Pakistan in one fell […]
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Faced with the only chance to save a child’s life, doctors in South Africa have performed a medical first – transplanting part of the liver from a HIV-positive mother into her HIV-negative child, it was announced Thursday. The doctors at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg revealed that one year after the operation, the child […]
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– says only 157,000 teachers now certified to teach – 2 million teachers registered so far The Federal Government has said that only 157,000 teachers have passed the prescribed professional qualifying examination conducted by the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria and issued with licences to practice in Nigeria. Minister of State for Education, Prof Anthony […]
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– say flawed Osun rerun poll is red flag for next year’s polls – urge parties dissatisfied with the electoral banditry to go to court Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), on Thursday expressed concern over conduct of Osun State supplementary poll and its outcome as announced by the INEC, saying the development had once […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday insisted that his administration will continue to fight corruption as it was one of his key pillars of campaign. He told visiting former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, at State House, Abuja that “For this administration, fighting corruption is non-negotiable. It is a must.” A statement by Femi Adesina, Special […]
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Social Democratic Party (SDP) flag-bearer during the September 22, 2018 governorship poll in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore and national leader, Dr Yemi Farounbi, on Thursday defended the coalition with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that culminated in the electoral victory of the Governor-Elect of the state, Mr Gboyega Isiaka Oyetola. The duo, who […]
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Agriculture and Rural Development minister, Chief Audu Ogbeh has warned that if appropriate measures were not taken to replant after the recent flood mayhem in some States, Nigeria may experience shortage of rice. He gave this warning at the Commissioning of the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) Molecular Facility and the 2018 seed fair and […]
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Protests rocked some major towns in Ondo state on Thursday, as members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state protested over the decision of the National Working Committee (NWC) to disqualify senatorial aspirants of the party. The protests took place simultaneously in Akure, the state capital, Ore for the southern district and Owo […]
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