President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Boko Haram insurgents took advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to launch attacks in Nigeria. This was contained in an article published on Tuesday in Le Point, a weekly magazine for French. It could be recalled that President Buhari on Sunday departed Abuja for France ahead of a finance summit for […]
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A young man has been arrested for allegedly beating his wife to death one month after she gave birth to a baby in Rivers state. The incident reportedly occurred last weekend in Ayambo, an island community in Bonny Local Government Area. The nursing mother identified simply as Chioma was said to be routinely beaten by her spouse, only this […]
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The Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado-Bayero and other passengers on Tuesday escaped death as Kano-Abuja Max Air plane developed an engine failure 10 minutes after it took off from the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA). According to reports the Max Air aircraft, marked VM1645, scheduled to take off by 1.30 pm took off at […]
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The Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, mandated the Ministry of Education, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to review the implementation of the National Identity Number (NIN) policy. According to the Senate, this is with a view to extending the JAMB registration deadline or suspending this requirement for prospective […]
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Kaduna State Government has announced the dismissal of all nurses below Grade Level 14 for joining the “illegal strike” which was embarked upon by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state. The government also said that nurses who disconnected oxygen from a two-day-old baby in an incubator on Monday, May 17, 2021, at the […]
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Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has ordered the dismissal of Kaduna State University’s lecturers who join other workers on strike in the state. He made this disclosure in a press statement by his media aide, Muyiwa Adekeye, on Tuesday, titled, ‘KDSG will not tolerate criminal acts disguised as industrial action’. Part of the statement […]
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Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, has constituted a nine-member Committee to harmonise the opinions of the government and people of Ekiti on the review of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended). This was contained in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday by Yinka Oyebode, the Chief Press Secretary, […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has seeked the approval of the Senate to borrow $6.18 billion external loan to finance this year’s N5.6 trillion budget deficit. The president’s request is contained in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and read by Lawan at Tuesday’s plenary. President Buhari said the proposed loan, […]
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Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has suspended his Senior Special Assistant, Abidemi Rufai, over his involvement in wire fraud in the United States of America. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Kunle Somorin, confirmed this to newsmen in a telephone interview on Tuesday. Somorin confirmed that Rufai is an appointee of the Ogun […]
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Mr Abidemi Rufai, Governor Dapo Abiodun top aide on special duties, has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States for his role in $650 million (N312 billion) unemployment benefits fraud. Seattle Times reports that Rufai was apprehended in New York on Friday as he attempted to flee the country. According […]
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