MALIAN singer Rokia Traore will be extradited from Italy to Belgium over an outstanding two-year prison sentence handed down in a child custody dispute, her lawyer said Thursday. The singer and guitarist was sentenced in absentia by a Brussels court last year on charges of parental abduction. She was arrested …
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Thursday presented Certificates of Return to the Governor-elect of Edo state, Senator Monday Okpebholo and his deputy, Hon. Dennis Idahosa. The event, which took place at the INEC headquarters, saw dignitaries, including the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Dr …
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FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, denied sacking the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for alleging that $49.8 billion was missing from the country’s coffers. Jonathan said Sanusi was suspended because the Financial Reporting Council queried CBN’s expenditure and that his …
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THE federal government has suspended some senior officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service over an allegation of infractions raised by Idris Okuneye (alias Bobrisky) A statement on Thursday by the Secretary, Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Board. Ja’afaru Ahmed read: “Following the viral video trending on social media on …
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THE first lady of Akwa Ibom state, Patience Umo Eno is died. The state Commissioner for Information, Ini Ememobong, made the announcement of the first lady’s death in a statement issued in the early hours of Friday. Ememobong said the first lady died on Thursday in a hospital in the …
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AN Osun State High Court sitting in Ede has remanded a traditional ruler, Elegbedi of Egbedi in Osun State, Oba Muideen Azeez, and four other defendants in the Ile-Ife Custodial Centre. The defendants were remanded on Thursday following their inability to perfect the bail condition granted by the court. Newsextra24 …
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THE naira appreciated massively against the dollar in the foreign exchange market 24 hours after the Federal Bank of Nigeria sold FX to operators of Bureau De Change, BDC. FMDQ data showed that the naira gained N91.32 to appreciate to N1576.10 per dollar on Thursday from N1667.42 exchanged on Wednesday. …
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THE Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet, has predicted thunderstorms from Thursday to Saturday across Nigeria. NiMet’s weather outlook released in Abuja predicted thunderstorms over parts of Kebbi State on Thursday during the morning hours in the North. Later in the day, it said thunderstorms are expected over parts of Adamawa, Taraba, …
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NIGERIAN workers have confirmed receiving Federal Government’s new minimum wage. The spokesperson of Nigeria Labour Congress, Benson Upah and the Deputy President of the Trade Union Congress, Tommy Etim disclosed this in a separate statement on Thursday. Upah and Etim’s comments come as DAILY POST exclusively reported on Thursday that …
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THE House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill amending the 1999 Constitution for first reading. The proposed law is titled “A Bill for an Act to Alter the Provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) to Allow for the Participation of Candidates Who …
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