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BREAKING: Buhari appoints Dembos as NTA Director-General
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.),has appointed Mr. Salihu Dembos as the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Television Authority. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the appointment in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. He said the appointment is for a tenure of three years in the first instance.
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2023: Tinubu unfit for presidency, says Ezeife
The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is unfit to rule the country because of ill-health, the Igbo Elders Consultative Forum, has said. The organisation said that only people who were not well informed, or have lost sanity, would vote for Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State. The chairman of IECF and former
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Cardi B announces wedding ceremony plans
American rapper, Belcalis Almanzar, popularly known as Cardi B has announced plans for her wedding ceremony, five years after officially marrying colleague, Offset. The couple secretly got married on the 20th of September 2017, and after much speculation by the public, Cardi B confirmed the rumour in June 2018. On their first year anniversary, she
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How frustration led me to playing music on Lagos streets – Clement Otor
A man, Clement Otor, narrates what pushed him to start playing music on the streets of Lagos. Otor shared a time in his life when he tried to do a lot of things but nothing was succeeding and that led to him being frustrated. He also revealed that his intention was not to make money
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Sokoto to spend N5.8bn on infrastructures
The Sokoto State Government has approved the award of contracts as well as variations of some and the purchase of drilling equipment to the tune of N5.8 billion. A breakdown of the sum indicates that over N4.5 billion will be spent on roads and bridges affected by floods about two years ago while N520 million
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UPDATED: Wike’s group pulls out of Atiku’s campaign council
The crisis rocking the nation’s main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party deepened on Wednesday as Governor Nyesom Wike’s team reportedly pulled out of the campaign Council of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. This came following a meeting early on Wednesday morning in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Our correspondent gathered that members of
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Putin orders partial mobilisation in Russia
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered “partial” mobilisation in Russia, in an escalation of what Moscow calls its military operation in pro-Western Ukraine. “I consider it necessary to support the proposal of the Defence Ministry and of the General Staff to conduct partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation,” Putin said during a televised address to
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Ukraine: Russia banned from Euro 2024
Russia will not take part in the draw for qualifying for Euro 2024, UEFA and the country’s football federation confirmed on Tuesday. The Russian national team and Russian clubs were banned from international competitions earlier this year by UEFA following the invasion of Ukraine. “All Russian teams are currently suspended following the decision of the
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N’Delta group demands withdrawal of soldiers from communities
A Niger Delta pressure group, the Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, has called for immediate evacuation of the soldiers allegedly occupying Udouda and Okobe communities in Egene kingdom in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State to allow homeless and defenceless residents to return to their homes, without further delay. The group made the call
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‘Japa’ and one life to live
These days, many Nigerian youths (and oldies) are emigrating to North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Pacific (that include Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other counties in droves). It’s called “Japa” these days. Those who practically invade the consular offices of foreign embassies are the tame ones. Many others go on extremely dangerous
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