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DSS: How Joint Operations Disrupted Terrorists’ N/West Regrouping Plan
…5 suspected insurgents arrested, weapons The Department of State Services (DSS) has said that joint operations comprising its personnel, troops of the Nigerian Army, as well as police operatives disrupted plans by suspected terrorist elements to establish strongholds in the North West general area. According to the intelligence agency, the kinetic operations resulted in the…
New Telegraph.
FG To States: Huge Security Budget Unacceptable
…Says Investable Territory Decreasing The Federal Government has advised the incoming government at the sub-national level to prioritise security in their states and expressed worry that several states are spending a considerable share of their budgets on security. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha, in a keynote address at the ongoing…
New Telegraph.
Out Of Over 600,000 KEDCO Customers Only 260,000 Pay Monthly Bills – ANED
The need for a strong pragmatic partnership between consumers and Distribution Companies of Nigeria, Disco, has been identified as the major means by which Power sector development could be achieved. This is even as the Kano Electricity Distribution Company, KEDCO, cried out that out of their over 600,000 Customer’s only 260,000 settled their monthly bills,…
New Telegraph.
Anambra APGA Losses N100m To Anti Party Perpetrators – Obiokoye
The former National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and state Chairmanship candidate of the party, Bar Ifeatu Obiokoye has lamented that the party lost over N100 million to litigations by members who perpetrated anti-party activities during its governorship primary election. Recall that during the gubernatorial primary election of the party in…
New Telegraph.
Don’t Depend On Crude Oil, Okonjo-Iweala Warns Incoming Govs
Dr Ngozi Okonja-Iweala, the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has advised the incoming Governors-elect not to depend on crude oil as a source of revenue in their territory. Speaking during the induction of the returning and newly elected governors, Okonjo-Iwela in Abuja warned that states with over-dependence on the monthly Federation Account Allocation…
New Telegraph.
Finally, World Bank Breaks Silence On Buhari $800m Loan Request
The World Bank has finally broken the silence on the news report that President Muhammadu Buhari-led government is borrowing a whopping sum of $800 million from the multilateral institution. The Director of the World Bank in Nigeria, Shubham Chaudhuri who spoke on Monday in an interview with This Day said it is not a fresh…
New Telegraph.
Hilda Baci Receives N3.5m Land Gift In Akwa Ibom
A real estate company, In-Motions Business Limited, has handed well-known Nigerian chef, Hilda Baci, a plot of land located in Wana Court Green Estate, Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State barely 24 hours after she broke the Guinness World Record for the longest hours of cooking. The firm’s Managing Director, Mr Gideon Ekanem, made…
New Telegraph.
Rio Ferdinand: Colwill Is Chelsea’s Best Defender
Chelsea have made a number of signings at the back in the last two transfer windows with Fofana joining last summer in a deal worth £70 million from Leicester City along with Kalidou Kouliably, who arrived from Napoli for £33 million and Marc Cucurella also joined last summer with Badiashile arriving from Monaco in January….
New Telegraph.
IBB University To Graduate 37 First Class, Send 24 Packing
Thirty-Seven graduates of the Niger State-owned Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBB), Lapai would be issued first-class degree certificates in its 4th combined convocation slated for this Saturday. In a pre-convocation press briefing on Tuesday in Minna, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Abu Kasim Adamu disclosed that a total of 954 graduates would be…
New Telegraph.
Okonjo-Iweala Charges Incoming Governors To Strengthen Nigeria
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Minister of Finance and Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has charged Governors-elect on duty regarding the requirements for effective nation-building in Nigeria. Nation-building is impossible without trust, according to Okonjo-Iweala, who spoke on Monday at an induction ceremony held in Abuja for newly elected governors. The former minister expressed…
New Telegraph.
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