A Chinese court on Wednesday ruled that couples must undergo a compulsory three month “cool off” period before being allowed to divorce. The People’s Court of Shizhong District in Jinan, the provincial capital, ordered that all divorcing couples must take three months to become “calm” and “reasonable. “No one shall object to observing the mandate […]
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The 16 Brigade of Nigerian Army, Yenagoa, on Wednesday said it had renovated and opened to tourists, the Oloibiri Oil Well No. 1, where commercial oil production commenced in 1958. Captain Jonah Danjuma, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations and Spokesman of the Brigade, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the Army would provide […]
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The family members of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, say their son is not a fraudster but was invited to bring reforms into the pension scheme. At a news conference in Kaduna on Wednesday, Aliyu Maina, spokesman of the family, accused a “cabal” of being behind the travails of […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission says it is making arrangements with the Nigeria Prisons Service to ensure that prisoners are allowed to vote in the 2019 general elections. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this in Abuja on Tuesday at a dialogue session with the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room Dialogue – a […]
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Morocco’s king has dismissed several ministers and top officials “for failing to improve the economic situation in a region” amid protests. Morocco’s King Mohammed IV dismissed the ministers of education, planning and housing and health, as well as other officials, after an economic agency found “imbalances” in implementing a development plan, state news agency MAP […]
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Biafra Veterans, represented by the president of the Association of Retired War Affected Police Officers (ARWAPO), Matthew Udeh, says the Biafran war is over and Nigeria is one forever. Speaking at an occasion on Tuesday, Udeh said the country was one and commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his “forthrightness and believing in one Nigeria”. The […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerians that the present administration would complete the second Niger Bridge before the end of 2019. Osinbajo stated this on Friday in Onitsha at the official flag-off campaign of Mr Tony Nwoye, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Anambra. He said that N2 billion had already been […]
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Peter Okoye, one of the duo of the defunct Psquare has dropped his first solo single ‘Cool It Down’. Peter, also known as Mr P, is now the first member of the defunct group to release a new song after he opted out of the group. ‘Cool It Down’ is a mid-tempo song released under […]
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Reno Omokri, former aide of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has hit out at Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as the mouthpiece of a murderous regime sustained by propaganda and surviving on corruption. Adesina had said Nigerians did not resent the hike in the price of fuel because they trust Buhari. But in […]
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says that N246.30 billion was generated as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the second quarter of the year. The bureau gave the figure in its `Sectoral Distribution of Value Added Tax’’ for the Second Quarter released on Friday in Abuja. It stated that the value generated in the quarter was […]
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