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target=_blank>Amaechi gets highest Catholic Knights promotion
Former Minister of Transportation and current ministerial nominee, Hon Rotimi Amaechi has been promoted to the highest rank in the Catholic church under the order of the Knights of St. John
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target=_blank>Youths urged to embrace hard work, shun get rich quick syndrome
WARRI—Provost, Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba, Delta State, Dr Josephine Okeakwa, has enjoined youths to shun cultism and the unhealthy drive to get rich quickly by all means.
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target=_blank>Uwelu market fire: Group lampoons Obaseki over fire fighting service
BENIN CITY—FEW days after motor spare part sellers at Uwelu market in Edo State lost millions of naira wotth of goods to a midnight fire, a group, Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Nigeria, CGGEJ, yesterday, said the inability of the Governor Goodwin Obaseki administration to equip the state’s fire service contributed to the huge loss suffered by the traders.
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target=_blank>Diri Vs Daumiebi: A-Court orders Bayelsa election tribunal to re-try
YENAGOA—THE Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has directed the Bayelsa State Election Petition Tribunal to immediately resume trial on the petition by All Progressives Congress, APC, and its candidate for Bayelsa Central senatorial district in the 2019 general election, Mr. Festus Daumiebi.
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target=_blank>ERA insists on establishment of $100bn Rehabilitation Fund for N-Delta
ABUJA— Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN has, insisted that the Federal Government should establish $100 billion Rehabilitation Fund for Niger Delta because of the environmental pollution in the area.
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target=_blank>Buratai: Nigerian Army’s symbol of discipline
By Nkechi Odoma
The office of the Chief of Army Staff ( COAS) is powerful anywhere by every yardstick of perception. The occupant of the exalted office, and in the case of Nigeria now, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai who wears a second heavier badge as leader, counter-insurgency operations is an influential personality by all standards.
As Nigeria’s number one soldier, the COAS wields enormous powers both within and outside military circles. And in the age of perennial and festering insurgency in Nigeria, Gen.
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target=_blank>Direct police, navy to publish names of all detainees, Falana tells FG
LAGOS—HUMAN rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, asked the Federal Government to direct all security agencies in Nigeria to publish the names of all detainees and their places of detention.
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target=_blank>El-Zakzaky’s ‘one chance’ trip to India
By Philip Agbese
The supremo of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, finally had his wish to travel abroad for medical treatment granted.
This should ordinarily have been a good development, especially in a country where the perception is that getting treatment abroad is the ultimate when healthcare is concerned. But for el-Zakzaky, it turned out to be a “one chance” trip to India. A trip that has exposed his branded victimhood to be a sham.
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target=_blank>Makinde appoints Owoseni, former Lagos, Benue Commissioner of Police, SA
Former Commissioner of Police in Lagos and Benue States, Mr Fatai Owoseni, has been appointed by the Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, as his Special Adviser on Security Matters.
The Governor, according to a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo Adisa, approved the appointment, which took effect from August 1.
The statement indicated that Owoseni’s appointment falls in line with the recognition of security as one of the four pillars of the Makinde administration in Oyo State.
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Okowa condemns attack on Ekweremadu in Germany
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has condemned the attack on Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, immediate past Deputy President of the Senate at the 2nd Annual Igbo Cultural Festival held in Nuremberg, Germany, on Saturday.
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