The Nigerian senate has adjourned plenary over the siege laid on homes of Senate President Bukola Saraki and deputy governor, Ike Ekweremadu. Speaking on the siege, the lawmakers who made contributions on the floor of the senate posited that they could no longer sit under the prevalent circumstance. Moving a motion on the floor the […]
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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday related how he escaped a siege on his home by security operatives in the early hours of the day. Security agencies early Tuesday morning laid siege on the homes of Saraki and Deputy his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. The siege is believed to be a ploy to prevent them from […]
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The rate at which the prices of good and services are increasing is on the rise, the National Bureau of Statistics says. NBS, in a data made available on Monday showed that month-on-month inflation rose from 1.09 percentage points in May to 1.24 percentage points in June. However, year-on-year inflation slowed from 11.61 percentage points […]
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A male suicide bomber has killed seven worshipers during morning prayer in a Mosque on Monday in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno. Malam Ali Kolo, the Head of Vigilance Group in the area, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Kolo said seven other persons including a child, sustained injuries when the […]
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The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has urged the state government workers to embrace the federal government housing scheme to enable them become homeowners after retirement. Obaseki gave the advice on Friday in Benin during a sensitisation programme on the federal housing mortgage scheme for public sector workers in the state, organised by the Nigeria Labour […]
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An American Airlines plane with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Christine Lagarde on board, made an emergency landing in the Argentine airport on Sunday due to malfunction, local media reported. According to the Clarin newspaper, the plane took off for the U. S. at 8.55 p.m. local time (23.55 GMT) from Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza […]
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Former National Spokesperson of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described the election of Nyesom Wike as Governor of Rivers State in 2015 as a sham, charade, tragic and unfortunate. Eze, who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and was an ally to Governor Wike when […]
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The Muhammadu Buhari administration has concluded arrangements to deploy 300,000 new beneficiaries in the second batch of its N-Power Volunteers Corp. The deployment will be effective from 1st August. With 200,000 beneficiaries currently benefitting from the programme, this means that by August, 500,000 unemployed Nigerian graduates will be beneficiaries of the scheme, which is a […]
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The Kogi State Police Command has summoned Senator Dino Melaye to report at the State Criminal and Investigation Department after his armed guards fired on a team of policemen on patrol duties in the state. A police sergeant was the victim of the shooting, the police said and is recuperating in the hospital. The Kogi […]
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The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is reconsidering participating in the forthcoming 2019 general elections. Speaking on Thursday when he received a Joint International Election Observation Mission fielded by two main American international civil agencies, the National Democratic Institute, (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI), the Chairman of PDP, […]
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