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Netherlands offers to support Nigeria on Ogoni clean-up

May 8, 2019 9:40 pm

The Netherlands Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms. Marion Kappeyne, yesterday pledged her country’s readiness to support the Federal Government to clean-up decades-long oil spills in Ogoniland, Rivers State.

Ms. Kappeyne spoke in Ebube while inspecting ongoing remediation of one of the polluted sites in Ebube community, Eleme Local Government Area of the state.

According to her, the clean-up project was one of the Federal Government’s top priorities that needed the support of all.

She said: “I came to see things for myself rather than sitting in Abuja and just reading them in the newspapers. This part of the country (Niger Delta) …

Jubril gets governors to support Lawan, Gbajabiamila

April 28, 2019 9:05 pm

Jubril Al-Sudani, Muhammadu Buhari’s impostor has got the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to endorse the party’s candidates for Senate president and House Speaker.

Elumelu partners with AFDB to support young entrepreneurs

March 29, 2019 11:47 am

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) have announced a new partnership that will expand support for youth entrepreneurship on the continent.

The partnership will create an additional 1,000 places on the flagship Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), bringing the total number of places to 3,050.

Participants in the program, launched by influential Nigerian entrepreneur Tony Elumelu in 2015, will receive access to seed funding, expert mentoring, and a 12-week business training program.

Competition for places has increased in the past year, according to figures from TEF. The Foundation received 216,000 applicants compared to 151,000 for

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Breaking: Ahmed Lawan wins Senate presidency election

Group appeals to senators-elect to support Lawan

March 24, 2019 2:40 pm

The Sustainable Democracy Agenda (SUDA), a pro-democracy group, has urged senators-elect to support the bid of Sen. Ahmad Lawan, representing Yobe North, for the position of President of the 9th Senate.

The group’s convener, Malam Ibrahim Usman, made the appeal in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.

Usman said the move would ensure a united and vibrant senate ready to face the onerous legislative works ahead.

“Our position on this is in line with the Senate. He has remained one of the most productive lawmakers since the beginning of the present dispensation in 1999.

Revealed! Nwosu asking for presidential support to rig poll

March 7, 2019 12:02 am

Says he’ll extinguish IPOB, and frustrate those in Imo supporting the Bifara’s agitation.

Promises to establish cattle settlements in Imo if given he is rigged into power by the presidency.

The letter which was sent through the office of the Chief of Staff to the President and personally signed by Uche Nwosu reads:

I the governorship candidate of AA, Ugwumba Uche Nwosu and the entire members of AA/APC in perfect alliance in Imo state, formally convey our profound congratulations to your well-deserved second term victory. Your victory over other parties in the just concluded presidential election, especially the PDP, is …