The Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has faulted the manner in which the Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) project of the federal government was conceived before its suspension. Kalu, who spoke with newsmen at the weekend, also said service chiefs were personal staff of the President …
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Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has hinted at plan to immortalise the former governor of old Bendel state, Vice Admiral Hassan Abdullahi (rtd), for the good work he did as military governor of the state. Admiral Abdullahi, who died last Tuesday in Abuja at the age of 80, was military …
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Governor Sierake Dickson of Bayelsa State’s Deputy,John Jonah,the Secretary to the State Government, Kemela Okara and the Chief of Staff Talford Ongola have all picked governorship nomination forms. Also a serving senator, Diri Douye and a member of the House of Representatives, Fred Agbadi have both paid the mandatory N21 …
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A company in which Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has a stake, Simmons Coopers Partners, has been linked to another firm, Ocean Trust Limited, which was fingered in an alleged N100bn scam involving Alpha Beta Consulting Limited and Alpha Beta LP. Ocean Trust Limited, which was accused of being a conduit for …
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A former Senator from Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, on Thursday, faulted the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission’s claim on the recovery of constituency project equipment, describing it as a mischief fuelled by political jobbers and taken too far. The ICPC had on Wednesday led journalists and …
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The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index has indicated that “multi dimensionally poor” Nigerians increased from 86 million to 98 million between 2007 and 2017. The report released in New York on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, noted that the proportion …
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The Senate on Thursday threatened to blacklist any mobile telecommunication firm in the country accused of unwholesome practices despite the huge profits they are making. The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, gave the threat in his remarks after the consideration of a motion by Senator Abdulfatai Buhari and 34 …
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The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has warmly welcomed the establishment of a new Global Media Defense Fund at the initiative of the United Kingdom and Canada and their respective pledges of £3 million ($3.8m) over five years and of 1 million Canadian Dollars ($765,000) to the Fund. The purpose …
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The oil-bearing communities in the Nembe Council Area of Bayelsa State have described as fraudulent the Global Memorandum of Understanding drawn by the International Oil Companies operating in their areas. The communities said this at a stakeholders’ forum organised by the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission, in Yenagoa. The …
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, on Wednesday, said it had recovered multi-million naira pieces of equipment meant for a constituency project stockpiled in a private home in Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that the pieces of equipment were meant for a cottage hospital at Ukana …
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