The Senate on Saturday proposed to amend its standing rules to accommodate an open ballot system of voting for the election of presiding officers. The amendment was proposed at a closed-door session, which started about 7:10 p.m. and lasted for several hours after the conclusion of the screening of the …
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said yesterday that he withdrew the case against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois County, in the United States of America because he filed a fresh case against the president. Special assistant on public communications to …
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All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman Abdullahi Ganduje yesterday said the nomination of Maryam Shetty as a minister was withdrawn because he and key leaders in Kano State were not duly consulted before she was selected. Speaking in an interview on Freedom Radio, monitored by our reporter, Ganduje said: “In …
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At least four persons have died after a mining site collapsed on them in Yadagungume, a community in Ningi local government area of Bauchi State. Reports gathered that the illegal miners lost their lives over the weekend after the site caved in on them. An eye witness who pleaded for …
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The senator representing Ondo South, Jimoh Ibrahim, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to create a Ministry of Revenue among the portfolios to be assigned to confirmed ministerial nominees by the President. Ibrahim gave the suggestion when he visited the President, according to a statement by his media office in …
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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu is seeking support for Nigeria’s military intervention in Niger. In the letter read at plenary by the Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, the president demanded a total blockade of the sea and air routes to the country following the military coup. Recall the military overthrew the democratically …
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In a display of unified support, a group of federal lawmakers from the National Assembly gathered on Friday, August 4, 2023, to confer with senior officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces, led by the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja. The meeting, which took place …
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An official of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC ) Mr Fasasi Sarafa, on Friday, appeared before the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Abeokuta metropolis, to present the certified true copy of governor Dapo Abiodun’s WAEC certificate to the panel. The examination council was subpoenaed to tender Abiodun’s O-level …
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President Bola Tinubu has congratulated a business mogul and frontline businessman, philanthropist and Founder of the BUA Group, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, as he attains 63 years of age. In a statement copied to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday, Tinubu praised the entrepreneurial ingenuity of the …
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Governor Hyacinth Alia has approved the implementation of the new retirement age and length of service for all categories of teachers in the state. This was contained in a press statement on Friday, signed by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Sir Tersoo Kula, in Makurdi. According to the statement, the …
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