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NNPC, Morocco to sign gas pipeline MoU Thursday
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited will on Thursday sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines of Morocco. In a series of tweets via its official Twitter handle on Wednesday, the NNPC stated that the MoU, which would be signed in Rabat, Morocco, would also involve the Economic
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Group lauds Soludo for sealing factional monarch’s palace
A socio-political group, the Igbo Youths for Positive Change, has commended the Anambra State Government and security agencies for their roles in the sealing off of the palace of Igwe Austin Ndigwe in Awka. The group said the action showed that the era of impunity and all forms of lawlessness were over in Anambra. The
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Buhari, APC’ve kept promise of relegating Nigeria – Ortom
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has indicted the President, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and his ruling All Progressives Congress for keeping their promise of relegating the country in their manifesto to Nigerians. In a statement signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur, Ortom said, “As a people, Nigerians need to have a
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Police get 431 petitions over cops’ misconduct
There were no fewer than 431 complaints from citizens against the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force between July and September 5, 2022, The PUNCH has learnt. However, 304 complaints had been resolved with 81 punishments awarded to erring police officers. These were contained in a document prepared by the Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari
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NSCDC, Immigration, others’ officers to write promotion exam
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has ordered the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration service Board to conduct the next promotion examinations of its officers in the various services in the states where they operate. This was contained in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Deputy Director of Press, Afonja Ajibola on Tuesday.
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Kwara musician, others bag 20 years for cybercrime
Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has convicted and sentenced a Lokoja- born musician, Samuel Onojah, and two others to 20 years imprisonment for offences bordering on cybercrime. Onojah was convicted on Monday, September 12, 2022 alongside Victor Kadiyamo and Jejelowo Segun, after pleading guilty to separate counts
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Idowu: The Bariga boxing princess
Mistura Idowu is the daughter of a boxer in Bariga, Lagos and while that may seem to explain her career path easily, it didn’t actually play out that way. Monsuru Idowu did not start teaching his daughter to box until she came to him. According to him, “I didn’t always want her to box even
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I have done well, says Buhari
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, said his regime has done “extremely well” considering the limited resources available to it. The President, spoke during a stakeholders’ meeting at the Imo State Government House in Owerri, the state capital, after inaugurating the Owerri-Orlu Road, phase one of the Owerri-Okigwe Road and the state
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Strike: Motorists stranded as students block Lagos-Ibadan expressway
A protest staged by members of the National Association of Nigerian Students on Tuesday resulted in a gridlock on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The protest took place just after the Sagamu Interchange section of the expressway, inwards Lagos One of our correspondents, who was at the scene, reported that students chanted solidarity songs while lamenting the
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My life under threat over Queen Elizabeth’s tweet – Prof
Nigerian-born American professor, Uju Anya, has said her life has been under threat since her Thursday tweet on the late Queen Elizabeth II. Anya, who is a Professor of Second Language Acquisition, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America, spoke exclusively to The PUNCH on Sunday afternoon. Anya, on Thursday, at
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