United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has raised an alarm that despite quality education being the right of all children in Nigeria, at least 10 million children of primary school age are currently out of school. UNICEF Communications Specialist, Eva Hinds said this yesterday at a 2 Day Media Dialogue/ Bloggers to promote Equity in education […]
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Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, yesterday said that privatisation of government agencies was to stop loss of public funds. Mohammed, who was speaking at a “Stakeholders Media Interactive Forum” in Lagos, said the Federal Government had invested more than 100 billion dollars in establishing these enterprises. He said that the federal government […]
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Nigeria Police Force said it had arrested 93 suspects who actively participated in the recent killings in Kaduna State. Following the killings in Kaduna, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mr Ibrahim Idris, deployed the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 7, Taiwo Lakanu, to lead a police intervention force to the state to […]
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Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) says it will generate over N300 billion from its privatisation and commercialisation activities to support the 2018 budget financing. The Director-General of BPE, Dr Alex Okoh, disclosed this on Monday in Lagos at the Stakeholders Media Interactive Forum organised by the Enterprise and the Stakeholders Engagement Committee of the National […]
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Nigeria has left that era in which democratic norms are brazenly subverted, with votes awarded to those favoured by the authorities, and the shortchanged told to go to court if they were not happy. President Muhammadu Buhari stated this Monday while receiving in State House, Abuja, members of the Joint United Nations, African Union and […]
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TOWARDS wooing members of the ruling All Progressives Congress perceived to be nursing grievances within the party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos has stretched a hand of fellowship to them so as join in the struggle against what it described as “one man dictatorship”. The party said the APC members should join the […]
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With the humongous resources at the disposal of Nigeria between 1999 and 2014, it is sad that infrastructure went to rot completely within the same period, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Receiving the outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, His Excellency, Paul Arkwright, in a farewell audience at State House, Abuja, on Monday, the President […]
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Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has proffered an eight-point solution to address the violence in Kaduna State. Among the solutions the lawmaker proffered is “strict application of security votes for security issues and not for politics”, among others. He highlighted these in a press statement issued in Abuja […]
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President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Mr Ahmed Yakassai, has appealed to Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State to employ more pharmacists into the state service. He made the appeal on Monday in Ibadan during a courtesy call on the governor in his office. Yakassai led members of the national executives, including Mr Olumide Akintayo, […]
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Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said that the federal government is yet to approve the commission’s N189.2 billion just 107 days to the February 16, 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections. The commission said though before the budget was passed by the National Assembly, it had already gone ahead with the procurement of the […]
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…Takes Protest to Aso Rock Organised labour under the auspices of Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, Trade Union Congress TUC and United Labour Congress ULC made good their plans to stage protest nationwide, which they tagged: “National Day of Mourning and Outrage”. The protest afforded the workers an opportunity to voice their grievances, with majority of […]
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*Buhari talks tough, says killings make Nigeria “irrelevant” *Says recent wanton killings in Kaduna is unacceptable *Declares that govt. will take “strongest measure” to punish perpetrators *Warns Police to sit up, that he has placed them under watch President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday decried what he described as wanton waste of human lives across the country […]
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…Accepts Buruji’s list Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has rejected the lists of all National Assembly candidates for Ogun state submitted by the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In a letter from INEC to the PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus which waa received by PDP on Tuesday, the electoral umpire said […]
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Opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday expressed concern over the mounting tension, escalating public restiveness, violence and rising cases of extra-judicial killings in the country. Reacting to the upsurge in security challenges across the country, the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the frightening situation in the country is precipitated by series of divisive […]
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Economic and Finanacial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied starving suspects in its custody, contrary to speculations in some quarters. The EFCC Head of Public Affairs, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said in Lagos that the commission never starved suspects but allowed their family members to bring food for them daily. Uwujaren reacted to a press statement by […]
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Vice president Yemi Osinbajo yesterday declared that the president Muhammadu Buhari administration can never deceive Nigerians, assuring that they would continue to initiate programmes that would improve the lives of ordinary Nigerians. Professor Osinbajo in a statement through his spokesman, Laolu Akande, noted that their administration was focused on making things better for the common […]
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Professor Allan Mamman Kadams of the Modibbo Adama University of Technology, MAUTECH, Yola has been kidnapped. His kidnapped has thrown the university into another round of anxiety following the kidnap of another lecturer, two weeks ago. Confirming the incident, the registrar of the University, Hajiya Halima Muhammmad told journalists in Yola yesterday that reports indicated […]
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Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, has condemned former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, for building a new court complex that was not properly designed for judicial purposes. Justice Daramola described the new Ekiti State High Court complex commissioned in May 2018 as “a hybrid of absurdity.” According to the Chief […]
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Lionel Messi on Wednesday raise hopes of fans, as he returned to training, after missing Barcelona’s wins over Inter Milan and Real Madrid Last week. The 31-year-old was also able to do some ball work for the first time, since breaking a bone in his arm on October 20. Barcelona face Cultural Leonesa in the Copa […]
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Niger state Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Zakari Abubakar has explained that a total of N263.6b revenue accrued to the state from July 2015 to September this year adding that the fund was prudently used to social and infrastructural development of the state. The commissioner stated this yesterday in a press conference organized by the state […]
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