Adetunji Igbaugba
29 May 2024
APM Terminals Apapa has encouraged importers, exporters and freight forwarders to explore the standard gauge rail line for the movement of their cargo. The terminal operator embarked on an awareness campaign on the standard gauge
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The Cross River government has concluded plans to revive the foremost 11.25km annual Obudu mountain race which last held in 2014. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Gov. Bassey Otu made the disclosure while fielding questions from newsmen in Calabar on Thursday. He, however, said that a lot of things needed to be…
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Czech police on Thursday said they had charged far-right leader and lawmaker Tomio Okamura over European Union election posters they claim incited racial hatred. A former entrepreneur and travel agency owner, the Tokyo-born Okamura chairs the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement with 20 lawmakers in the 200-seat parliament. The party wants the Czech…
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Arab leaders will meet in Saudi Arabia on Friday to counter President Donald Trump's plan for US control of Gaza and the expulsion of its people, diplomatic and government sources said. The plan has united Arab states in opposition, but disagreements remain over who should govern the war-ravaged Palestinian territory and how to fund its…
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A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced four men to 25 years for the "honour killing" of a woman stabbed to death in broad daylight in front of her three-year-old daughter. The 28-year-old Roshin was stabbed 28 times by her elder brother as she walked with her daughter in the eastern Dutch city of Apeldoorn in…
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Britain and France are spearheading attempts to create a European "reassurance force" of fewer than 30,000 troops to protect Ukraine after any ceasefire deal with Russia, UK media reported Thursday. The idea comes as European powers fear that US President Donald Trump could end the three-year war on terms favourable to Moscow, without providing security…
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Former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), has finally admitted that Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola won the June 12, 1993, presidential election. He also expressed regret over the annulment in his newly launched autobiography. The book titled, "A Journey In Service"unveiled today in Abuja, was reviewed by former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.…
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A soothsayer once foretold that former military head of state, Gen Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.), would administer Nigeria. Former Head of State, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) stated this at the launch of Babangida's autobiography entitled: "Babangida, a journey in service" held Thursday at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja. Abdulsalami, a classmate of Babangida at the Government College…
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The African Democratic Congress (ADC), in Kebbi, says it will not withdraw its case from Supreme Court against the tenure elongation of its leaders in the country. The Chairman of the party in the state, Alhaji Bala Sufiyanu, stated this at a joint press briefing when he hosted Chairmen of the party from Northern part…
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A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed Thursday after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in the island's worst such wildlife accident, police said. The express train was travelling near a wildlife reserve at Habarana, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) east of the capital Colombo, when it hit…
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A popular hip-hop musician, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, was on Thursday before an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court in Isabo for allegedly assaulting officials of Ogun Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development. The Magistrate, Mr O.L. Oke, however, granted the musician bail in the sum of N2 million, with one surety who must be…