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Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has called on leaders and stakeholders of the party to reflect on prevailing challenges and come up with strategies that will enable the PDP to take its dominant place once again. Atiku gave the charge in Abuja on […]
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Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai on Thursday held a closed- door meeting with critical stakeholders drawn from Atyap, Fulani, and Hausa communities, all of Atyap chiefdom of Zango Kataf over the killings in southern Kaduna area. The military, Police and other intelligence agency alongside observers from international organisations, and other resource persons who have […]
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The National Working Committee NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC said it has reversed the suspension of Senator Barnabas Gemade, Professor Terhemba Shija, and five others by the Benue State Executive Committee of the Party. Party spokesman, Felix Morka in a statement on Thursday said the NWC “has directed that the said suspension […]
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The enforcement unit of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has apprehended 30 suspects caught engaging in indiscriminate waste disposal at various locations in Ipaja, Ikate-Surulere, area of the state. Managing Director, LAWMA, Ibrahim Odumboni, who disclosed this on Thursday, said the suspect who were arrested during the enforcement operations across the state would soon […]
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As preparations are in top gear In New York this week for three High-Level Meetings in September at the UN General Assembly, the World Health Organisation, WHO, on Thursday declared that Monkeypox, mpox, is no longer a global health emergency. WHO also disclosed that over 87,000 cases and 140 deaths from Monkey Pox, Mpox have […]
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The opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State, has given reasons why it would participate in the December, this year’s local government election in the state. Giving the reasons in Akure, the state chairman of the party, Fatai Adams, said in Akure, the state capital, that the third tier of government in the state […]
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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) on Thursday in Abuja expressed concerns over Nigeria’s N77 trillion public debt. Addressing the 7th triennial national delegates’ conference of the association, its president, Mr Festus Osifo, said the debt profile as at the first quarter of 2023 was mind-blowing. He noted that poor […]
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Some traders at the Atikankan area of Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Thursday, attacked operatives of Ekiti State Amotekun Corps injuring no fewer than four persons believed to include members of the security agency. Sources said that trouble began when the Amotekun Corps attempted to effect the government order to relocate the traders […]
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Niger Delta youths under the Niger Delta Youth Congress, NDYC, Thursday, kicked against regional zoning of National Assembly leadership positions as it is not constitutional, democratic, and unjustifiable. The group made their position known in a statement signed by the National Coordinator, NDYC, Comrade Israel Uwejeyan, where the group pointed out that the National Assembly […]
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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has said that he nursed no grudge against anyone, describing himself as a governor for all Osun residents. Governor Adeleke, who spoke at the palaces of Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, and Timi of Ede, Oba Munirudeen Lawal, after his Supreme Court victory, commended the royal fathers for their […]
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