Former President, Goodluck Jonathan and Bayelsa Governor, Douye Diri, have urged politicians in the state to unite and eschew enmity irrespective of political affiliations.
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They spoke during the 9th Bayelsa State annual thanksgiving day celebration at Ecumenical Centre, Igbogene, Yenagoa, the state capital, yesterday.
Jonathan, who was attending the thanksgiving after years of absence, urged the political class to learn from Christians, who despite belonging to various denominations, all anchor their faith in God through Christ.
‘They (Christians) may have their differences in terms of method and approach. In Bayelsa, …
The coalition of the 2017/2018 set of Niger-Delta Amnesty students, deployed to some universities across the Niger Delta Region have forwarded a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, following the persistent refusal of the Federal Government to pay their allowances and stipends for nearly three years.
According to the students, the petition became necessary to notify the president of the unjustifiable deprivation of payment of monthly stipends and other benefits due to them, contrary to the terms and conditions of the sponsorship agreement under the Amnesty Programme which they entered with the government a few years ago.
Deploring what they called …
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says no fewer than 158,000 people were affected by flood in 18 local government areas of Kebbi State.
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The Team Leader of NEMA’s Emergency Operation Centre in Sokoto, Alhaji Tukur Abubakar, made this known while speaking with newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Monday shortly after meeting with the state governor, Sen. Atiku Bagudu.
Tukur explained that the team had been in the state for the past three weeks and went round the most affected areas and documented the details of flood victims.
“We have …
The information about a so-called “Executive Order” on Environmental Sanitation in Lagos State … This information is untrue and should be totally disregarded pls,” Jubril Gawat, a media aide to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Twitter.
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The rebuttal followed a viral social media post claimed that the state government has reinstated the monthly sanitation exercise on last Saturday of every month through an executive order signed by Sanwo-Olu-Olu
‘I wish to inform you that environmental sanitation is now back to Lagos on every last Saturday of the month, starting from …
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, on Monday told newly appointed judges of the High Court of Justice and Kadis of Sharia Court to shun all forms of gratification in the discharging all their legal duties.
The CJN also admonished the judges to be proactive and devise personal means to curb ‘persistent delays in the administration of justice’, which according to him, is a major bane in the nation’s judiciary.
Justice Muhammad gave the charge while declaring open the 2020 Virtual Induction Course for newly appointed judges and Kadis organized by the National Judicial Institute (NJI), …
Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden said Monday he had applied for Russian citizenship but would keep his US nationality.
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The former American intelligence contractor, who revealed in 2013 that the US government was spying on its citizens, has been living in exile in Russia since the revelations.
Snowden’s tweet comes weeks after he was granted permanent residency in the country, and just days after his partner Lindsay Mills announced she was pregnant.
He tweeted: “After years of separation from our parents, my wife and I have no desire to be …
Running mate of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2011 election and Founder of Citadel Global Church, Tunde Bakare, on Monday, declared his readiness to run for the most covetous pubic office come 2023.
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He also charged President Muhammadu Buhari to work hard on the legacy that would outlive him on a contrary to what is seeing six years into his right year’s administration as the democratically elected president of the most populous black country in the world.
This was coming at a time agitations were being intensified by groups and …
The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, (AMEN), Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka, has lashed out at president Muhammadu Buhari over his failure to address the nation’s numerous challenges which resulted in the nationwide #EndSARS protests.
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Mbaka who was addressing congregants at this year’s All Saint’s Mass in Enugu on Sunday also alleged that several #EndSARS protesters in Enugu State were killed by security agencies and their bodies thrown into the Onyeama Valley.
He said that Nigerians were in deep pain and “(President) Buhari, who could have been a …
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is presently interrogating a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, over the N100 billion tax evasion allegations leveled against a tax firm, Alpha Beta Consulting.
Fowler, who was also a former Chief Executive Officer, Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, responded to an invitation from the EFCC on Monday.
A former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Alpha Beta Consulting, Dapo Apara, had accused the firm of tax fraud to the tune of N100bn.
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In a petition
Many hospitals in Nigeria now dispense drugs that will last for three months to people living with HIV.
Mr. Ikenna Nwakanma, First Co-chairman, Coalition of Civil Society Networks on HIV and AIDS in Nigeria told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the Covid-19 challenge and concerns over supply chain informed the decision.
‘With COVID19, most of the hospitals were forced to do multi-month dispensing of drugs as we have long advocated, and it has worked perfectly,’ he said.
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Nwakanma explained that the practice …
Nigerian Minister of power Alhaji Sale Mamman has said that no government in the history of the country has accomplished what the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is accomplishing through its numerous intervention programs for the youth.
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Mamman made the declaration while meeting with youth groups and other key stakeholders in Jalingo on Sunday at a peace meeting organized by the minister following the President’s directive on cabinet ministers to move to their states and support efforts to restore peace and stability against the …
About 400 people rallied outside the French embassy in the Indonesian capital to denounce France’s handling of cartoons of Islam’s prophet Mohammed deemed offensive by Muslims.
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The protesters outside waved posters calling French President Emmanuel Macron “an enemy of Muslims.
A banner read “we condemn the insult against Prophet Mohammed,’’ referring to caricatures of Mohammed republished by the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in early September.
Following a series of Islamist attacks on France since 2015 that have left about 250 dead, Macron recently set out an action plan …
