Police officers and men who will provide security in the September 22 governorship election in Osun State have been warned against fraternising with politicians or collecting bribe from them. The Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit, PCRRU, Mr Abayomi Shogunle, gave the warning in Osogbo, the state capital on […]
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– says scheduled polls threatened by Presidency-National Assembly face-off Interview The fate of the 2019 general elections is hanging in the balance. Barely six months to the timetable set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the elections, the enabling law, which is the Electoral Act, is not signed into law. […]
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• How non-passage of petroleum bill stalls sector’s outlook The delay in the award of new oil blocks and uncertainties over existing marginal oilfields are upsetting industry players, amid a warning that the country’s economic development could be jeopardised. Nigeria is projected to witness a shortage of crude oil, as new refineries may have to […]
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Onlookers and rescuers gather round a bus that crashed in Jagtial district in India’s southern Telangana state on September 11, 2018 Fifty people died when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a valley in southern India on Tuesday, one of the deadliest accidents on the country’s notorious roads in recent years. Road crashes in […]
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FILE PHOTO: Two Nigerian refugees cry and embrace in a detention center for refugees in Surman, Libya 17 August 2016. The detention center houses hundreds of women escaping precarious conditions. Many claim they are regularly beaten or sexually assaulted, and receive insufficient amounts of food and water at the center. Most of these women were […]
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• Say commission must reinvent self ahead of 2019 polls • Party’s committee to produce consensus presidential candidate • Buhari, El-Rufai, Ambode, others get nomination forms Few months to the 2019 general elections, Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday passed a vote of no confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, […]
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Authorities of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, have denied a story making the rounds on social and other media that it meted out sanctions and punishments on members of staff who submitted memoranda and petitions to the Visitation Panel constituted to look into the University’s activities by the state government. A statement by […]
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A UN-backed ocean cleanup vessel aiming at cleaning up 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean has left San Francisco on its first voyage. The vessel, which was deployed in San Francisco, consists of a 600-meter long floater that sits at the surface of the water and a tapered three-meter deep skirt […]
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Some of the Russian tanks taking part in the world’s biggest military drills ever Russia has begun the world’s largest military drills, involving 300,000 soldiers. The week-long deployment dubbed “Vostok-2018” (East-2018), which kicked off in eastern Siberia and includes the Chinese and Mongolian armies, has been condemned by NATO as a rehearsal for “large-scale conflict”. […]
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A psychiatrist with a private psychiatrist centre in Gwagwalada, Dr Eno Kufre, on Monday said that depression is the major cause of premature death. He said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Abuja to commemorate the World Suicide Prevention Day. The theme for the Day is “Working together to […]
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