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Debt Management Office: See Nigeria Current Debt With World Bank

The total debt owed to the World Bank Group by Nigeria rose by $1.3bn in one year to $9.81bn as of September 2019, latest data from the Debt Management Office showed on Wednesday. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association, which make up the World …

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Allege US Court Conviction: Abuja Court Exonerates Omo-Agege

A suit filed against the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has been dismissed by Abuja High Court, presided over by Justice Othman Musa. The suit which was filed by a youth body under the umbrella of Incorporated Trustees of Patriotic Youth Organisation of Nigeria states that Senator …

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Allege US Court Indictment: Senate to Investigate Omo-Agege

The Nigerian Senate has indicated interest to Investigate the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, over allegations of his indictment by a United States Court. spokesperson to the Nigerian senate, Godiya Akwashiki, said this while addressing the Senate Press Corps in Abuja. He said the Senate will not turn …

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Why Delta Polytechnic Students Barricades the Ughelli/Asaba Expressway

Reports coming from the headquarters of Isoko North Local Government Area, Ozoro, Delta state, said the students of the Delta state polytechnic, Ozoro have barricaded the busy Ughelli/Asaba Expressway. The students who also locked the main entrance gate into the institution ascribed their action to an alleged new policies introduced …

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Research:IUO VC advise post graduate students to improve on economic development.

Prof Lawrence Ezemonye,Vice Chancellor, Igbenedion University, Okada (IUO) has advised post graduate students of the institution to use research to improve on economic development, creativity and innovation in order to create national development. Ezemonye gave the advice during a One Day Post-Graduate summit in Igbenedion University Okada (IUO) on Thursday. …

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Amotekun: You should have kept Quiet, Afenifere tell Tinibu

A Yoruba Socio-cultural group, the Afenifere has discredits the statement by the leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Tunibu, saying that Timubu should keep to his silence. According to Afenifere, Tinubu spoke in a forked tongue, adding that his statement failed to defend the decision taken by …

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Ecumenical Youths Releases Numbers of Nigerian Christians Killed in a Month

A coalition of Christians under the umbrella of Ecumenical Youths Association has released the numbers of Christians who have been killed in the northern part of the country. The Christian body which said over 15,000 Christians in the North were killed between 2015 and 2019 in attacks targeted at Christian …

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Sack judge handling APC Case in Rivers, Oshiomhole Writes CJN

  The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has aked the chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim Muhammad, to send a Rivers state high court judge, Augusta Kingsley-Chukwu to compulsory retirement, saying the judge has poor knowledge of the law and should be made to go. Oshimhole …

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Give up Amotekun or lose bid for 2023 Presidency, Miyetti Allah warns S’West Govs.

Advises govs to keep the push for state police The Miyetti Allah Kaute Hore has warned the governors of the south-west geopolitical region to give up the idea Amotekun, a regional security outfit created to address insecurity, or lose their bid to win the 2023 president. You would recall that …

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Amotekun: Malami’s Position is Out of Place, PDP Chieftain Insist

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has faulted the position of the Federal Government on the Southwest security outfit codenamed, Operation Amotekun. He described the Federal Government position as unfair and not in tandem with the principle of egalitarianism being preached by the present All Progressive Congress (APC)-led …

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