Thisday Newspaper News Today Saturday 18th January 2020
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Gowon: No Regrets for Going to War with Biafra
Former Head of State, retired General Yakubu Gowon, has said his administration had no regret going into the Biafra war because it was necessary to keep Nigeria one. The ex-military ruler said this in a special interview he granted the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, as part of activities marking the 50th anniversary
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Buhari Departs for UK-Africa Investment Summit
President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja for London to participate in the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit holding on January 20. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the president had earlier performed some official assignments, including his meeting with security chiefs, before leaving the Presidential Villa for the London trip. The president also joined hundreds
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Oshiomhole Seeks Transfer of APC Suit from Justice Kingsley-Chukwu
Bennett Oghifo National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, has pressed for the transfer to another court, a case involving his party the All Progressives Congress from Justice Augusta U. Kingsley-Chukwu of the Rivers State High Court, demanding that she be compossorily retired. Oshiomhole’s request is contained in two separate letters
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Amotekun: Avoid Separate Security Platforms, FG Pleads with Govs
It’s against national security policy, community policing Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja Apparently reacting to the South-west security outfit, code-named Amotekun, launched last week, the National Security Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari rose from a meeting at the State House, Abuja, yesterday, with an appeal to states, local governments and other stakeholders to join
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TCN: We Cannot Guarantee Stability of National Power Grid Now
Chineme Okafor in Abuja The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that it could not guarantee the stability of Nigeria’s electricity grid at the moment because it did not have the spinning reserves to prevent its total collapse whenever there were typical system disturbances. The national grid on Thursday collapsed and reportedly left most
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Imo Judgement: Atiku, PDP Leaders Call for Protest
Statements reckless, dangerous, says Oshiomhole Chuks Okocha and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja Former vice president and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has called on his party to mobilise against what he described as “threats to democracy” by the Supreme Court judgement that ordered the removal of
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Group Gives Tinubu 24 Hours to take Position on Amotekun
Bennett Oghifo An association, known as Save Lagos Group, has demanded a public statement, within 24 hours from Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on his position on the establishment of a security outfit; Western Nigeria Security Network code-named ‘Operation Amotekun’. The group gave the ultimatum, yesterday, in a statement in which they acknowledged and commended those who
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Soldiers Sack Bayelsa Town over Alleged Killing of Colleagues
Emmanuel Addeh in Yenagoa Some military personnel yesterday allegedly invaded Bilabiri community in riverine Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, razing down some buildings. Apprehensive residents were said to have fled into the creeks for safety after the soldiers stormed the community allegedly over the killing of their colleagues few weeks ago. Recall that
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Public Debt Stock Inches to N26.2tn, Inflation Jumps to 11.98%
Ndubuisi Francis and James Emejo in Abuja Total public debt, comprising the federal government’s, those of the 36 states and that of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), stood at N26.215 trillion as at September 2019, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has stated. Also yesterday, it emerged that the Consumer Price Index, (CPI), which measures inflation,
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Woman Demands N350m from DSS, Lebanese Businessman over Illegal Detention
Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City A single mother of one, Ms Odegua Okojie, has taken the Department of State Security (DSS) and a Lebanese businessman to court for illegally detaining her for nine days In a suit filed at the Federal High Court Benin, the applicant claimed that during the detention, she was denied access
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