This month’s meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) has commenced at the presidential villa, Abuja with Vice President Kashim Shettima presiding. It is coming at a time the hike in the price of petroleum products has brought serious stress on citizens. The meeting is expected to dwell extensively …
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All revenue consultants and agents contracted by various Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDA’s) in Niger state. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Alhaji Abubakar Usman, revealed this in Minna on Thursday, adding that Gov. Umaru Bago gave the order for the immediate sack. Usman said the disengagement is to …
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Manchester City have accepted a bid worth up to 30 million pounds (38.7 million dollars) for Riyad Mahrez from Saudi Arabian club Al Ahli. The 32-year-old Algeria international has consequently been given permission to miss the treble winners’ pre-season tour of Asia. Mahrez is now set to discuss terms …
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A group, Forum of State Chairmen of Defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), has made a case for a former Governor of Nasarawa State, Sen. Tanko Al-Makura, as the next National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The endorsement was contained in a statement jointly signed by the group’s …
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The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Kabba-Bunu Ijumu Federal Constituency in the last general elections, Hon. Olaiya Michael Olobatoke, is dead. The family confirmed this in a statement on his Facebook handle. “With pain in our hearts but gratitude to God Almighty, we announce the passing …
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The Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) has called on the federal government to increase the salaries of Nigerian workers to alleviate the suffering arising from the removal of the fuel subsidy and the increase in price of petroleum products. The president of OAIC Nigeria Region, Elder Israel Akinadewo, made …
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The battle for the National Chairmanship of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has now been narrowed down to former governors of Kano and Nasarawa states, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje and Senator Tanko Al-Makura, respectively, Vanguard has learned. Reports gathered that some stakeholders from the North Central have put up a …
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An Anambra State pupil, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who forged her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, appeared on Wednesday before an ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives in Abuja. The teenager, who had admitted to manipulating her score from 249 to 362, thus parading herself as the 2023 UTME top …
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A former governor of Nasarawa State, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has laid to rest the lingering speculations of existence of rift between him and his successor, Governor Abdullahi Sule. Al-Makura, who is also the immediate past senator representing Nasarawa-South senatorial district at the upper chamber of the National Assembly, said the …
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Gombe State Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has approved the constitution of a 25-man committee for the assessment of grazing, forest and game reserves as well as cattle routes in the state. Secretary to the state government Prof Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi, who conveyed the governor’s approval, disclosed that the committee is …
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