Turkey sought on Sunday to rescue surviving members of a container ship after pirates attacked it off the coast of Nigeria, killing one person and kidnapping 15, according to the Turkish and Azeri governments and state media. Three crew members remained aboard the Turkish vessel, called Mozart, after the attack …
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Nigeria’s first female Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala expressed gratitude to former US officials who urged President Biden to endorse her selection by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as Director-General. My thanks to these remarkable leaders for expressing their views! The @wto has a critical role to play in making …
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Ms Sadia Umar-Farouk, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development to “publish details of proposed payments of N729bn to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months, including the mechanisms and logistics for the payments, list of beneficiaries, and how they …
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Herdsmen: High Court Bans Open Grazing, Akeredolu Rules Effective Tomorrow From tomorrow, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s seven-day grace to herdsmen to comply with a slew of rules will become effective. With the rules being challenged by Aso Rock and Miyetti Allah, a legal boost for correctness of the order has emerged …
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A video has gone viral on social media showing some Nigerians stranded in Saudi Arabia — some as long as seven months. In apparent reaction to the video, chair of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, on Friday said, “Nigerian irregular migrants in Saudi Arabia are due to …
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‘She’ll be first American woman to lead WTO’ — US leaders write Biden to back Okonjo-Iweala Some US leaders, including Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, have written President Joe Biden, urging him to support the candidacy of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the office of the director-general of the World Trade Organisation. In …
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• Don’t See Hausa/Fulani As Sacred Cows -Afenifere, YCE, Others Caution FG • There Maybe Counterattacks In The North – ACF Warns • Northern Elders Condemn Burning Of Oyo Sarkin Fulani’s Home • Arresting Adeyemo May Escalate Tensions – Yoruba Groups • Federal, State Officials To Visit Igangan, Other Parts …
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Nigeria’s economy may be in a recession and the country may not have enough money to fund its 2021 budget but this has not deterred the Muhammadu Buhari administration from allocating its highest amount ever to the State House including the ‘presidential wing’ of a hospital the president seldom uses. …
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A committee on public accounts, anti-corruption and due process in Abia state assembly is investigating the sale of 17 vehicles belonging to Abia’s Secondary Education Management Board for N317,000 as well as student buses parked in the ministry of agriculture. A hearing by the committee on Friday did not proceed …
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The Federal Government planned to contribute $ 350 m to the ECOWAS Security Fund out of which $ 80m ( over N30 . 5 bn) would be spent on the counter- insurgency campaign in the North -East. The pledge was made towards the $ 1 bn ECOWAS Regional Security Fund …
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