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President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday inaugurated the Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Development Institute (AMEDI), Lafia, to enhance food security and create jobs for the youths across the country. AMEDI is one of the Buhari administration legacies meant to make Nigeria a hub and supplier of agro-allied technology, equipment and machinery. The project is also aimed […]
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Following the resumption of their La Liga fixture against Mallorca on Sunday, Real Madrid will travel to Morocco for this year’s Club World Cup. Carlo Ancelotti’s side qualified for the competition as a result of winning the UEFA Champions League last season. Los Blancos will now aim to add another trophy to their collection. The […]
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Paris Saint-Germain boss Christophe Galtier has told his team not to allow Lionel Messi take some tasks but to work hard to give the 35-year-old some freedom on the pitch. According to him, the World Cup winner was exempt from defensive duties in PSG’s 2-1 win against Toulouse on Saturday. Toulouse scored first at the […]
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Yomi Awoniyi, former Kogi State Deputy Governor, has picked nomination and expression of interest forms for the 14th April, 2023, Governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The former Deputy Governor, in a statement issued on Sunday in Lokoja, said he possessed the character, capacity, competence, commitment, knowledge, experience and resolve to address the […]
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One of the spokespersons for the Bola Tinubu, Shettima Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has described the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, as a ‘political prostitute’. Keyamo made the statement on Sunday in a post via his verified Twitter handle. The Minister of State for Labour and Employment was reacting to a […]
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Signs of cracks within the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, emerged on Saturday as a pressure group within the party, under the aegis of Concerned APC Stakeholders, described the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, as incompetent, just 20 days before the general election. The national coordinator of the group, Dominic Alancha, while addressing a press […]
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and the Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila over their failure to cut National Assembly budget of N228.1 billion. In a statement on Sunday by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the suit followed the move by […]
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has said the current pain and inconvenience created by redesigning the Naira would bring significant long-term economic and social benefits. Obi also urged the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and commercial banks to speed up efforts to make the new Naira notes available to small […]
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Former Nigerian lawmaker, Ben Murray-Bruce, has questioned the motive behind the recent visit to President Muhammadu Buhari by the governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Murray-Bruce queried why the APC governors visited Buhari over the naira redesign, noting that they couldn’t make such a visit while the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, was […]
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The former Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd) said President Muhammadu Buhari has fulfilled his promise to subdue Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, terrorists. Buratai, who made the assertion in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, recalled that President Buhari in his inaugural address on May […]
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