Damascus
25 May
A car explosion killed one person in Damascus on Saturday, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported, without identifying the victim.
28 Apr
The Israeli attack on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, and the resultant retaliatory attack by Iran on Israel have no doubt raisedthe stakes in the Middle East war involving Israel and Hamas.
1 Apr
Israeli strikes hit an Iranian consulate annex in Syria's capital Monday, state media said, amid rising regional tensions due to the Gaza war, as a war monitor reported eight people were killed.
20 Jan
An Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building.
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Former Director-General of Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, has said the party’s inability to build an enduring structure after the 2023 elections is responsible for the gale of defections from the party.
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The National Pension Commission (PenCom) said only 18,000 pensioners are yet to receive pension accrued benefits despite the Federal Government’s N44 billion provision between March and September 2023.
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Heavy transactions in the shares of banks, last week, lifted the volume of shares traded, as a turnover of 2.5 billion shares worth N91.3 billion was recorded in 51,406 deals on the floor of the Exchange.
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Over 69,800 federal civil servants may have a gloomy Christmas as delays in salary payments dampen their holiday celebrations.
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Accusing fingers were pointed at President Bola Tinubu and the policies of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government yesterday, as critics claimed they were responsible for the recent deadly stampedes that caused the death of dozens across the country.
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Hareter Babatunde Oralusi, an impact investment advocate and Executive Chairman of the Nigerian Capital Development Fund (NCDF)
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The statement attributed to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), that its personnel encounter security risks in their bid to probe high-profile corruption cases is unexpected and constitutes a slap on the government’s much-touted commitment to fight corruption.
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas to cut the proposed budget of N9.4 billion on travel, refreshments and meals for the Presidency, and the proposed N344.85 billion for the lawmakers.
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Despite efforts to tackle unending cost-push inflation affecting building materials prices, many investors and property developers are being forced to abandon their housing projects due to the cost of financing, logistics and labour.
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Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, is a worried man. This is because the clear vision he caught before his assumption of office in 2021 on how to make the needed difference from his predecessors in the state is being threatened by insecurity.