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COWA begins financial support for late customs officers’ families
The Customs Officers Wives Association has pledged to support families of officers, who lost their lives in active service. The association also revealed plans to equip no fewer than 1,200 customs officers’ wives to be financially stable by 2024. The COWA made this known on Friday, shortly after a courtesy visit to Ogun Area Command,
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Do not drag Tinubu, Wike into Nasarawa politics, PDP tells gov Sule
The Nasarawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has cautioned Governor Abdullahi Sule against dragging President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, into the politics of the state. In a statement made available to journalists in Lafia on Saturday, the state chairman of the PDP, Chief Francis Orogu,
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Kogi, Lagos, Rivers most expensive states to reside – NBS
The latest Consumer Price Index data released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics revealed that Kogi, Lagos, and Rivers are the most expensive states to live in, based on inflation rates for August 2023. On a year-on-year basis, Kogi led the way with the highest all-items inflation rate at 31.50 per cent, followed closely by
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FG to improve railway workers’ welfare
The Federal Government through the Ministry of Transportation has revealed plans to improve the welfare of the staff of the Nigerian Railway Corporation and to foster better working conditions. The Minister of Transportation, Sa’idu Alkali, who made the disclosure recently during a familiarisation visit to the NRC’s Headquarters in Ebute-Meta, Lagos, affirmed that he would
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BUA chief meets Tinubu, plans to crash cement price from N5,500 to N3,500
BUA Cement Plc. has revealed plans to reduce the price of cement in Nigeria from the current N5,500 to between N3,000 and N3,500. The company’s Chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, disclosed this to Journalists after an audience with President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja. Rabiu said the price crash is part of his company’s
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Debt servicing gulps N2.34tn in six months – DMO
Nigeria’s debt servicing spending slowed to N849.58bn in the second quarter of 2023, findings by The PUNCH have shown. This was a decrease by 43.04 per cent compared to N1.49tn, which was spent in Q1 2023 on servicing debt. According to data obtained from the Debt Management Office, between January and March 2023, Nigeria spent
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NURTW crisis: NLC accuses police of bias, NPF denies claim
The Nigeria Labour Congress has accused the police of taking side with one of the factions in the crisis rocking the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers. The NLC in a statement on Friday by its Acting President, Kabiru Minjibir, claimed that while democratically elected leaders of the NURTW were being detained,
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Labourer beheads farmer in Ondo, blames hard drug
An Ondo State Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Akure has ordered the remand of a man, Sunday Clement, in prison custody for allegedly killing a farmer, Taye Alatoye. Following the incident, the 24-year-old labourer defendant was arrested by the men of the state police command and was later charged to court and arraigned on a
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Pressure mounts on rice farmers as CBN massive loan repayment deadline nears
In this report, our correspondents investigate what has become of the over N1.7trn Central Bank of Nigeria-disbursed Anchor Borrower’s Loan given to supposed rice farmers across the country Nothing depicts affluence within the vicinity, except for a handful of cars parked in the unkempt environment only fit for the breeding of reptiles. Relics of farming
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NIS to commence 24,000 passports daily production soon – FG
The Federal Government has said that once the backlog of passport applications have been cleared, the Nigeria Immigration Service will commence the production of 24,000 passports daily. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this in Abuja on Friday when a delegation from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes visited his office. A
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