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Obi congratulates Anyaoku at 90
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has congratulated former Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, on the occasion of his 90th birthday anniversary. Obi, in a goodwill message he personally signed and made available to the media on Wednesday, lauded Anyaoku’s commitment to his fatherland and prayed to
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WHO to establish TB Vaccine Accelerator Council
The Director General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, on Tuesday, announced plans to establish a new TB Vaccine Accelerator Council. Dr Ghebreyesus, who said this at a high-level panel on TB at the World Economic Forum, noted that the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis services had brought the urgency
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FG, NECA plan 1,071 houses across eight states
The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria has disclosed plans to inaugurate 1,071 completed houses in eight project sites across the country. The states include Akure, Ondo state; Yola, Adamawa state; Katsina, Abakiliki, Ebonyi state; Damaturu, Yobe State; Sokoto, Maiduguri, Borno; as well as Kogi State. The FMBN Managing Director, Hamman Madu, in a statement by
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Ukraine’s interior minister, 15 others die in helicopter crash
Ukraine’s interior minister was among 16 people, including two children, who were killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the capital Kyiv, officials said Wednesday. In a video that circulated online from the aftermath of the incident, cries could be heard at the scene which was consumed by a fire. There were no
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Adamawa chief jailed eight years breach of trust
An Adamawa Magistrate Court has sentenced a village head, Gumni Ilihu, of Gugu village, under Banjiram District, Guyuk Local Government Area of the state, to eight years imprisonment, after he was found guilty of criminal breach of trust, intimidation and mischief. The plaintiff in the case, a primary school teacher, Roel Sunaka, 47, had dragged
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Emefiele, govs to meet over withdrawal policy, naira redesign
Governors of the 36 states have planned to meet with the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, on Thursday over the present withdrawal policy and the redesigned naira notes. The governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum through its spokesperson, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in a statement Tuesday night said the governors would exchange ideas
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FG decries rampant deaths among civil servants
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, has decried the rampant cases of sudden deaths among civil servants in the country. Yemi-Esan, who stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at the inauguration of the newly established Employee Wellness Centre for civil servants, said many civil servants suddenly die as a result
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Today’s electorate blessed with social media, says Osinbajo
…urges youths to maximise social media for good …says learning from history better than experience Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday, in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, described social media as a blessing to the electorate and not politicians alone. This was as he advised the youth to maximise the “real advantages” of social media, noting
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N13bn drugs, military hardware seized at Lagos airport
The Murtala Muhammed Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has said it intercepted hard drugs, and military and police hardware at the cargo section of the airport. Addressing journalists at the command in Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, the Customs Area Controller, Sambo Dangaladima, said 162 cartons of banned tramadol hydrochloride 225 and 250mg, military
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Cross River govt sacks 12 principals over bribery
Secondary school principals who engage in collecting illegal levies in Cross River State have been removed while others have been suspended and transferred. The Commissioner for Quality Education, Dr Godwin Amanke, disclosed this during a ministerial briefing in Calabar on Tuesday. He said, “We have given a lot of queries. Twelve principals were removed, six
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