Governor Rochas Okorocha said President Muhammadu Buhari was very cheerful and has not lost any bit of his sense of humour when he and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress met him in London on Sunday. Okorocha gave this report in a telephone conversation reported by President Buhari’s special adviser on media and publicity,…
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Deputy Secretary-General @UN @AminaJMohammed led a delegation of UN Women to the Office of The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo . Also present at the meeting were Senator Aisha Alhassan Minister, Women Affairs And Social Development, Zainab Ahmed Minister of State Budget and National Planning, and Geoffrey Onyeama Minister of Foreign Affairs. The discussion bothered on the Role of Women Leadership in Peace, Security…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has come hard on the Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who it said, lacks the powers to proscribe the activities of the union in Kogi State University, Anyigba. Bello had while prescribing the activities of ASUU in the state-owned university, stated that the union had rebuffed all…
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Senator Ademola Adeleke representing Osun West in the Nigerian Senate has said that dancing is part of him and that he enjoyed dancing. The Senator whose dancing video went viral and gained him more popularity spoke in an interview in Abuja on Thursday. The interview was published on the official Twitter handle of the Nigerian Senate @NGRSenate…
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday ordered security reinforcements in Kaduna State to solve the security challenges in the area and to apprehend those behind the recent killings of innocent citizens. The directive came on the back of reports of communal clashes that resulted in the loss of lives earlier this week in Kajuru, Kajuru Local…
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A High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Kayode Adedeji, to death by hanging for robbing a woman of N3,420. The accused was slammed with the sentence on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 – more than 8 years after the crime was committed. According to the prosecuting counsel from the…
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The Whistle Blowers Protection Bill has been passed by the Senate. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Biodun Olujimi (PDP-Ekiti) was passed on Wednesday after a third reading. It scaled second reading on Oct. 19, 2016. Presenting report on the bill before its passage, Chairman, Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matter, Sen. David Umaru, said a thorough…
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The Federal High Court in Lagos has on Wednesday ordered the seizure of a property located in Banana Island area of Lagos State belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources Allison-Madueke Diezani. The property, according to Punch, was bought in 2013 for $37.5m. The property reportedly contains 24 apartments, made up of 18 flats and 6 penthouses, according to…
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Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe has joined the Accord Party. Okupe recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where he cited the ‘periods of long introspection’ and the current crisis in the party as the reason for his decision then. In a statement issued…
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Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS), which previously traded as Etisalat Nigeria, has confirmed the changing of its trading name to 9mobile. In a statement released on Tuesday, Boye Olusanya, the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), described the new name, which is due for official unveiling on Wednesday, as presenting its “0809ja heritage” and “our…
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