HIS Excellency, Peter Gregory Obi, celebrates five Nigerians’ who recorded excellent strides and won awards from SouthWest University in China. The Nigerians, whose names are Ifeoma Amuche, Chioma Chukwuemeka, Oraka Chiamaka, Akpata Johnson and Chinedu Wilson were given awards for their academic exploits at the University. Ifeoma Amuche is especially …
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Many of you–friends and well-wishers–have sent out kind words on my appointment as the National Security Adviser (NSA) by His Excellency President @officialABAT. I sincerely appreciate your felicitations and prayers. I shall strive to discharge this confidence reposed in me.
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President Bola Tinubu says a naval officer once slapped him for overcharging him unintentionally when he was a taxi driver in the United States. The president made this known as his shared stories of humble beginning in a biography published on the back page of a national daily. The biography …
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SENEGAL captain Kalidou Koulibaly became the latest star name to head to Saudi Arabia on Sunday as he joined Al-Hilal from Chelsea, the Premier League club confirmed. Koulibaly joined the Blues just last year from Napoli for a reported £33 million ($42 million). However, the 32-year-old struggled in the Premier …
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted two imported consignments of Loud, a strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1kgs along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at the Alfa Beach, Lekki area of Lagos State. The Director, Media and Advocacy of the anti-narcotic agency, Femi …
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Bayelsa State Command, said it arrested 193 drug abusers in the state. The state Commander of the NDLEA, Matthew Ewah, who stated this at a press briefing as part of activities by the command to mark the 2023 International Day Against Drug Abuse and …
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The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria has confirmed the deaths of five Nigerian pilgrims participating in the ongoing Hajj in Saudi Arabia. The head of NAHCON Hajj medical team, Usman Galadima, made this known on Saturday during a meeting of the commission in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, adding that 30 patients …
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President Bola Tinubu has been urged to allow for a full-scale investigation into the immediate past administration led by the former president, Muhammadu Buhari. Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, who made the call in a tweet on his verified handle on Sunday, said the investigation should begin with Buhari, members …
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The council chairman of the Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Mr Emmanuel Ajah, has confirmed the arrest of eight kidnappers who killed a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Emmanuel Igwe, along Ishiagu-Mpu road last Sunday. Recall that the suspected kidnappers abducted the wife of the …
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have held strategic discussions in Abuja on how to deepen collaboration on financial inclusion in Nigeria. Speaking during the meeting, the Bank’s Acting Governor, Mr. Folashodun Shonubi, reiterated the commitment of the CBN to continually partner …
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