A past Abia State Governor and the Representative of Abia Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Theodore Orji has hailed the emergence of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the new Director-General, World Trade Organization, WTO. Senator Orji congratulated Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala whom he represents at the Senate, noting that the former Nigeria Finance Minister and […]
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The Progressive Governors’ Forum, PGF, has has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha contributed to governance in Nigeria. According to PGF, Aisha contributed to governance through insightful and selfless support. Chairman of the Forum, Abubakar Bagudu made the remark in a statement to celebrate the First Lady on her 50th birthday, NAN reports. “The PGF […]
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Scores of students at Government Science College (GSC) Kagara, in Niger State, have been kidnapped by suspected bandits. According to reports, the armed men stormed the school in military uniform Tuesday night. PRNigeria reports that GSC has close to 1,000 students. The attackers overpowered the security guard on duty, before whisking away a number of […]
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Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has expressed outrage at the recent killing of the Village Head of Kusherki in Rafi Local Government Area Mas’ud Abubakar and abduction of his wife, children and some others by Armed Bandits. A similar attack took place at Kachuae under Munya local government area where nine vigilante were […]
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The United Kingdom has reported new cases of a likely vaccine-resistant variant of the coronavirus, said to have emerged from Nigeria. Described as the B1525, a report by researchers at the University of Edinburg, traces the earliest discovery of the variant to December 29, 2020. At least 29 sequences of the B1525 reported in the […]
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Kylian Mbappe ripped Barcelona apart on Tuesday by scoring a stunning hat-trick in a 4-1 rout to put Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on the brink of the Champions League quarter-finals. Mbappe underlined his status as the coming superstar of world football with a ruthless display of finishing at Camp Nou that will go down as one […]
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The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Tuesday night announced the temporary closure of runway 18R/36L at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos. FAAN, in a tweet via its twitter handle @FAAN_Official, on Tuesday, said the closure was due to a landing incident involving a Boeing 737 Azman Air aircraft with registration 5N SYS, and […]
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Tosin Ajaomo, the lawyer representing the former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday said the appointment of a new boss to head the anti-graft agency came as a shock. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive […]
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Some soldiers of the Nigerian Army in Abuja have been accused of torturing and raping dozens of ladies arrested from Obigbo (Oyigbo) in Rivers State, between October and November 2020, during a raid in the area. SaharaReporters obtained the accounts of two of the girls, although the audio clip could not be shared because of the […]
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Ondo, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has replied his counterpart from Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed who recently backed herdsmen carrying AK-47 and other weapons. Akeredolu who had spoken during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, questioning Mohammed’s comment at this point in time in the country. The Governor condemned the statement by Mohammed who […]
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