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Anambra govt shuts down casinos, gaming centres
The Anambra State Government has ordered the immediate suspension of operations of all casinos and gaming centres in the state. The directive followed alleged fraudulent and criminal activities observed in their operations. This directive was contained in a statement jointly signed by the Commissioner for Culture, Entertainment; Tourism, Donatus Onyenji and Chairman, Anambra State Internal
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Group knocks El-Rufai over comments on Peter Obi
A group under the aegis of Great Nigeria 4 Obi-Datti has critcised the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over his comment that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ordered his arrest when he was Anambra State governor. While addressing journalists in Awka on Thursday, the spokesman for the group, Mr Tony Chukwuelue, and other
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No plans to ban ‘Okada’ – FG
The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Transportation, on Thursday noted that there were no plans to ban operations of commercial motorcycles popularly known as ‘Okada’ as a means of transportation in the country. The Minister of State for Transportation, Ademola Adegoroye, made this clarification while speaking in Abuja at the Annual Strategic Stakeholders Summit
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Flood: Over 1.5m Nigerian children at risk – UNICEF
More than 1.5 million children are at risk as devastating floods hit Nigeria, the United Nations Children’s Fund has warned. UNICEF made this known in a press statement made available to our correspondent on Friday. According to the UN agency, more than 2.5 million people in Nigeria need humanitarian assistance – 60 per cent of
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You can’t evict your landlord, CUPP tells Ayu
The Coalition of United Political Parties on Friday faulted the reported move by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, to sanction the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. The opposition parties said the party’s National Working Committee, as presently constituted, has no moral right to query or sanction Wike without the chairman
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Name second Niger Bridge after Ojukwu – Ohanaeze
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has commended the regime of the President, Major General, Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for the completion of the second Niger Bridge. The organisation said the completion of the project had earned Buhari forgiveness from the Igbo people for not fulfilling his 2015 electoral promises, which included revamping the Enugu
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INEC urged to punish politicians violating Electoral Act
The governorship candidate of the Zenith Labour Party in Rivers State, Leyii Kwanee, has urgef the Independent National Electoral Commission to punish politicians who violate provisions of the new Electoral Act. Kwanee stressed the need for INEC to invoke its powers and file charges against politicians who run short of the law, especially against the
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Tinubu: Should Nigerians really shut up?
Nigeria’s god of literature, Wole Soyinka, needs no elaborate introduction. His evident literary flourishes underscore a deep mastery of the English language which he eminently utilises to address socio-political conditions in his native Nigeria and across the world. He has, several times, confronted misrule, urging the economic weary, downtrodden masses to stand up against bad
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Workers shut Plateau LG secretariat over unpaid salaries
Protesting workers of Lantang North Local Government Area of Plateau State on Thursday shut down the council Secretariat. Some of the angry workers who spoke with The PUNCH in Jos said they decided to close the secretariat to register their grievances over the non-payment of their salaries for more than four months One of the
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Enugu didn’t lose $41.8m under my watch – Nnamani
The Senator representing Enugu East, Chimaroke Nnamani, has rubbished claims that the sum of $41.8 million got missing from the coffers of the Enugu State Government while he governed the state. According to Nnamani who described the allegation as gossip, the state never had such an amount to be stolen or embezzled. This was disclosed
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