Thisday Newspaper News Today Monday 28th October 2019

Thisday Newspaper News Today Monday 28th October 2019

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Buhari Departs Abuja Today for Investment Summit in Saudi Arabia

Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja today for Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to attend the third edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) organised by Saudi’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). With the theme, ‘‘What’s Next for Global Business?,’’ the event, according to a statement by presidential spokesman, Malam Garba
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Bayelsa Guber Poll: I Can’t Work for APC, Says Jonathan

Endorses Douye, meets PDP governors Chuks Okocha in Abuja The ambition of the Bayelsa State candidate in the November 16 governorship election, Senator Diri Duoye, to succeed the incumbent Governor of the state, Hon. Seriake Dickson, at the weekend received a huge boost when former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, emerged from a closed-door meeting
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SERAP Seeks Details of Spending on Failed $460m CCTV, Other Chinese Loans

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has requested for details of the total amount of money paid to contractors from the $460 million loan obtained in 2010 from China to fund the ‘failed’ Abuja Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) contract. According to a statement signed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the FoI request was sent
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My Initiative in Benue for Peace, Not Politics, Says Air Peace Boss

Says Miyetti Allah never admitted to killings in Benue Chinedu Eze The Chairman of Air Peace, Chief Onyema Allen, yesterday refuted insinuations that he has a political ambition for his recent intervention in the herdsmen-farmers’ crisis in Benue State. The philanthropist, who recently airlifted many stranded Nigerians from South Africa, noted that the action was
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Sultan Directs Muslims to Look out for New Moon of Rabi’u Awwal

Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar has directed the Muslim ummah to start looking out for the new moon of Rabi’u Awwal 1441AH from Monday, October 28, 2019 (today), which is equivalent to 29th day of Safar 1441AH. In a statement signed by the Chairman Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs of the Sultanate Council, Professor
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Surviving Wife of Tafawa-Balewa is Dead

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi The wife to Nigeria’s late Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Hajiya Jummai Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, is dead. Jummai was the last surviving wife of Nigeria’s former Prime Minister. THISDAY checks in Bauchi revealed that the late Hajiya Jummai died in Lagos in the early hours of yesterday after a protracted
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CJN Deplores Growing Criminality among Students

The Chief Justice of Nigeria at CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, has deployed the increasing rate of crimes and various acts of criminalities in higher institutions and among students. Muhammad urged authorities of the various institutions of learning to take necessary steps to reverse the unsavoury trend. The CJN assured all that “the Nigerian Judiciary will
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EFCC Quizzes Seven Edo LG Officials

Adibe Emenyonu in Benin-city Seven officials of Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State have been interrogated by the Benin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegation of corrupt practices as they were alleged to have connived with the council chairman, Augustine Okoibhole, to defraud the council. As
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I’m Not Opposed to Ekiti Cargo Airport, Says Tinubu

Idowu Sowunmi Former Lagos State Governor and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has dismissed report claiming that he’s opposed to the ongoing construction of cargo airport in Ekiti State. A section of the media, which recently reported that the APC national leader had expressed opposition to the project,
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Lagos Restates Zero Tolerance for Indiscriminate Waste Disposal

The Lagos State government has reiterated total intolerance of illegal and reckless waste disposal, in unauthorised places. This followed the arrest, preparatory to prosecution of some residents of Aboru in Alimosho Local Government Area, whose wards were recently caught emptying bags of trash in a drainage channel at the front of their home, during a […]
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