Emeka Ejere || Tens of thousands of people, many of them children, serenaded Pope Francis on his 81st birthday on Sunday, as the pontiff appealed for the release of Catholic nuns kidnapped last month in Nigeria. The crowd sang Happy Birthday in Italian as the pontiff appeared at the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking…
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Emeka Ejere || The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), said on Saturday it would launch a strike from Monday after talks aimed at resolving a dispute with domestic oil and gas companies reached a deadlock. The union whose members mainly work in the upstream oil industry is clashing with the…
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Emeka Ejere || The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Eket field, says it has suspended six marketers in Akwa Ibom for diverting petroleum products The DRP Operations Controller in Akwa Ibom, Tamunoiminabo Sundaye, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Eket on Sunday. Mr. Sundaye said that the marketers lifted 180,000 litres of…
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Ebun Francis || Nigeria’s first lady, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, has called for a review of the N10,000 fine against the rapist of a six-month old baby in Kano last year. The wife of the President made the call on Saturday at a National workshop on war against Abuse in Nigeria organised by her future assured…
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Goals from Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne and two from Raheem Sterling gave Man City a 4-1 win over Tottenham to extend their historic winning run to 16 Premier League matches. Gundogan headed home the opener from a Leroy Sane corner on 14 minutes after the hosts had seen off early Spurs possession and begun…
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Ebun Francis || Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has felicitated with President Muhammadu Buhari as he clocks 75. But the country’s unrepentant critic of the President, however, urged him to quit politics given his age and fragile health condition. Governor Fayose made the comments while speaking with newsmen on Saturday at Ado-Ekiti. According to the…
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The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) distributed N609.95 billion to Federal, States and Local Governments as revenue generated in November. This is N77.25 billion more than what it shared in October, Ahmed Idris, the Accountant-General of the Federation said. Mr. Idris said that after the cost of collection deductions by FIRS, Customs, and DPR, the…
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Let me begin by telling a story. On June 1, 2015, the day I resumed work as adviser on media to President Muhammadu Buhari, he had admonished me: “Adesina, always tell me the truth. That is what I want from you. In this type of position I have found myself, it is very easy not…
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Emeka Ejere || The Nigerian Law School graduate Firdaus Amasa, who was denied access to the venue of the call to the bar ceremony earlier this week says her demand remains the need to grant approval for the use of hijab among Muslim law graduates. The graduate of the University of Ilorin had been denied…
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Emeka Ejere || A British judge ruled on Friday that up to $85 million from the notorious Malabu oil deal should be returned to the Nigerian government. This is the first money to be successfully recovered from the $1.1 billion sale of the fantastically rich offshore oil block, OPL245, that has been mired in corruption…
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