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Dauda Lawal, governor of Zamfara, says he did not declare 9 trillion naira in cash, investment, and property assets. Lawal spoke on Thursday during an interview with Radio France International (RFI) Hausa. He said the people of Zamfara will not be facing so many challenges if he had N9 trillion, adding that he would have […]
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The Senate has passed an amendment to the Act establishing the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) as it approved two years jail term for any person who sends false petitions to the Commission. The amendment on Tuesday followed the consideration of a report by the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial […]
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The Management of DAAR Communications Limited on Monday cleared the air surrounding death of its founder, Raymond Dokpesi. Affairs TV reports that the media mogul breathed his last on Monday in Abuja. While confirming his death in a statement, the DAAR Communications Group Managing Director, Tony Akiotu, said the late businessman had been ill prior […]
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Congratulations are in order, it would seem, as more than two dozen states inaugurated the winners of their March 18 governorship elections and April 15 reruns. Today, they took their oaths of office with expectations of them as high as ever. But the epoch-making events did not include eight states — that is, Anambra, Bayelsa, […]
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TEXT OF INAUGURAL ADDRESS BY BOLA AHMED TINUBU, GCFR, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. 29 May 2023 THE NIGERIAN IDEAL My Fellow Citizens, I stand before you honoured to assume the sacred mandate you have given me. My love for this nation is abiding. My confidence in its people, […]
Continue ReadingAsiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima has been officially sworn in as the President and Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Tinubu won the 2023 Presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress having defeated Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party. Details […]
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The federal government has announced a new pathway to permanent residency in Nigeria, just as it conferred Nigerian citizenship on 385 deserving adult foreign nationals from different countries. In his remarks at the conferment ceremony which was held at the Dambazzau Hall, Nigeria Correctional Service Headquarters, Abuja, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, announced […]
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FAREWELL SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA My fellow Nigerian brothers, sisters and friends of Nigeria. 2. I address you today, in my last assignment as a democratically elected President of our great and well-endowed nation, with a deep sense of gratitude to God, a great deal of […]
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A popular Television preacher and motivational speaker, Reverend Mike Ochigbo, has been kidnapped by gunmen in Adamawa State. Ochigbo, who is the General Overseer of Freedom Power Chapel, was forced at gunpoint out of his home in the wee hours, of Wednesday, from his residence located in Nyibango. Similarly, one Pastor John Moses has also […]
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There was some tension between the Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila and his deputy, Idris Wase at close of plenary earlier on Wednesday. Both men openly disagreed over the duration of Thursday’s plenary as the speaker insisted that proceedings should be short enough to allow him and other members attend the official […]
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