…Supports NAOWA’s skill acquisition projects with N5m Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Friday, donated the sum of N5 million and 150 bags of 50kg rice to widows of fallen heroes in the state in commemoration of the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day. Gov. Ugwuanyi who handed over a …
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Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (popularly known as, Bobi Wine), the National Unity Platform’s flagbearer has rejected early results from the January 14 Uganda Presidential Elections. With 29.4% of votes from Thursday’s ballot counted, Museveni had won 1,852,263 votes, or 63.9%, while opposition candidate Bobi Wine had 821,874 (28.4%). The 76-year-old President Yoweri Kaguta …
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Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, has described former Osun Governor, Bisi Akande, as Nigeria’s father. The former APC interim National Chairman turns 82 on Saturday. “You are an exceptional human being and Nigeria is proud to have you as one of its sons”, Tinubu said in a …
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US President-elect Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo into his cabinet. Biden had announced the appointment of Badejo, a lawyer and an alumna of Berkeley Law College in the US, when he named additional 20 members of the office of the White House counsel. The office of White …
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VIDEO: Pigeons released by Buhari refuse to fly at Armed Forces remembrance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsrDlyQNHbs The doves, otherwise known as white pigeons, released by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Armed Forces Remembrance Day ceremony, refused to fly despite multiple attempts by the President thereby sparking a debate on …
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The National Youth Service Corps has banned all forms of religious gatherings on its orientation camps. NYSC Camp Safe Reopening Project Lead, Dr Oyeladun Okunromade, stated this on Friday at a sensitisation webinar for the 2020 Batch B Stream II Corp Members. The event with the theme, ‘Protecting The health …
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday stated that it has not approved any COVID-19 vaccine. It warned fake vaccines have started circulating in the country, urging the public not to purchase such drugs as they can cause COVID-19-like illnesses and can lead to …
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The consumer price index, (CPI) which measures inflation increased by 15.75 percent (year-on-year) in December 2020. This is 0.86 percent points higher than the rate recorded in November 2020 (14.89) percent. Increases were recorded in all COICOP divisions that yielded the Headline index. On a month-on-month basis, the Headline index …
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President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other top government officials on Friday laid wreaths at the National Arcade, Abuja as part of activities to mark this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day. Buhari, who arrived the Arcade at about 10.05am had earlier inspected a guard of honour mounted by …
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Kaduna State first lady Hadiza El-Rufai says her husband Governor Nasir El-Rufai is not stingy, but Prudent, Newsextra24 reports. Mrs El-Rufai stated this in the wake of the trending Stingy Men Association of Nigeria. She tweeted on Wednesday: “My man is not stingy. Just prudent.” Members of the supposed association …
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