The Oba is on a historic visit to Rivers State. He will meet with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers and Edo Indigenes resident in Rivers State during the visit.
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The visit was to ascertain the level of damage following attack on the former president’s residence by unknown gunmen on Christmas eve.
They said the visit was also to find necessary solution to prevent reoccurrence of such attacks.
In attendance were the JTF Commander, Rear Admiral Akinjide Akinrinade, the Flag Officer Commanding Central Naval Command, Rear Admiral Saidu Garba,
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar-Farouq, has assured victims of Wednesday’s fire incident at the Ochanja Market, Onitsha in Anambra State, of the federal government’s support towards ameliorating their plights. She gave the assurance yesterday in Onitsha when she visited the market to ascertain the level of damage.
Umar-Farouq said she was pained at the level of losses incurred by the traders as well as the damage caused by the inferno.
“We are here on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari, who directed …
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, where he was set to seal oil agreements and try to use his influence to defuse tensions boiling in the Gulf.
King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, welcomed Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at Al-Yamama Palace in Riyadh with full military honours.
Putin’s visit follows attacks on Saudi oil installations that Riyadh and Washington have blamed on Moscow ally Tehran.
Oil will be “the main topic of discussion”, Russian political analyst Fydor Lukyanov said, as a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting …
Former President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday in Abuja visited President Muhammadu Buhari in the State House. The former president who was driven into the Presidential Villa at about 2.58 pm, was received by State House Chief of Protocol, Lawan Kazaure, before walking into the waiting hands of the president in his office.
However, the closed-door meeting was so brief as it did not last for more than 10 minutes before the former president came out of Buhari’s office, entered into his car and was driven off.
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The President of the United Nations General Assembly, Her Excellency, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, has arrived Nigeria on a three days offiicial visit.
The UN bigwig was received by top officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Office.
