The Emir of Daura, Umar Faruk, has expressed gratitude to the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo’s following his effort to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Ahmed Kaita in the senatorial bye-election. The emir also described Osinbajo as “a typical example of loyalty and trustworthiness in politics.” A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to…
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Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari will be decorated with a Doctorate in Humanity (Honoris Causa) on Monday, 13th August, 2013 by Sun Moon University, Asan, South Korea. The letter conveying the award, which was presented by Professor Hong Young-Shik at the State House, recently, states: “I have been directed to notify you, Your…
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Taxify Nigeria, on Thursday pulled a driver off the road for allegedly confessing to sexually assaulting a drunk passenger. Taxify made their intervention known via their Twitter handle, @taxifyng, when a Twitter user, Oreoluwa Fakorede shared the confession of a Taxify driver on his handle, @OreFakorede. Fakorede tweeted, “A Taxify driver just confidently told me…
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The World Bank will support Nigeria with $611m to get children back to school under the Better Education Service Delivery for All programme, the Coordinator, Prof. Gidado Tahir, has said. Tahir made this known in Kaduna on Friday at a meeting with officials of Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board, on modalities for the implementation…
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An Indian woman will soon become the first in Asia to become pregnant and give birth to a baby after undergoing a successful uterus transplant recently, said doctors with a private hospital in Pune, a city in the southwestern state of Maharashtra. The uterus transplanted into the pregnant woman is her mother’s. The 27-year-old woman…
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The Police Command in Enugu State has arrested a three-man Automated Teller Machine fraud syndicate operating within Enugu city. In a statement on Friday in Enugu, the command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said that the police operatives recovered 30 ATM cards belonging to different individuals from the syndicate. Amaraizu said the syndicate was smashed by the…
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The police in Niger State have foiled a plot by suspected fraudsters to defraud a bank customer in Suleja. The suspects, James Obiora, 32, of Dawaki Extension, Abuja and Kelvin Onyeka, 37, of No. B, Efab Estate, Apo, Abuja were arrested by the police detectives attached to ‘A’ Division Suleja, who acted on a tip-off.…
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National chairmen and other leaders of 45 opposition political parties on Thursday raised the alarm over an alleged plot by a government agency to freeze the bank accounts of the Senate and Saraki. The parties raised the alarm during a solidarity visit to the Senate President in the Senate building in Abuja on Thursday. The…
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The Benue State Commissioner for Finance, David Olofu, on Thursday declared that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, had unfrozen the state accounts. Olofu told our correspondent on Thursday that the affected banks informed the state government late on Wednesday of the directives vacating the earlier order. The Chief Press Secretary to the state…
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The Senator representing (PDP, Bauchi) Isah Misau, debunked claims by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that the National Assembly was planning to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari. Misau made the rebuttal in a statement in Abuja on Thursday. He urged Nigerians to disregard what he described as empty talk by the…
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