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11 Mar 2024
…Market survey shows reduction in cost of noodles, sugar, beans, rice, pasta, others There seems to be some form of relief at the moment for Nigerians, especially those in the low to middle income bracket, who have for some months now been affected by the nationwide food price hike, driven by the sharp inflation and…
3 Mar 2024
The Zamfara State government has verified 3,079 retirees in an effort to pay the backlog of gratuities owed by previous administrations. Retired state and local government workers had not received their gratuities since 2011, according to a statement by Governor Dauda Lawal’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris. He said that a total of 1746 pensioners from…
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Hamas militants handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday as part of the fifth exchange under a fragile Gaza ceasefire, with 183 prisoners held by Israel due to be released later in the day. The swap comes after US President Donald Trump proposed clearing out the Gaza Strip of its inhabitants and for the United…
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has taken its legal battle against its proscription as a terrorist organization to the Supreme Court.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi joined a summit in Tanzania on Saturday where regional leaders
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The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Christiana Adeyeye, made the remark during the destruction exercise at the Rivers state dump site in Port Harcourt on Friday. Adeyeye, represented by Mr Chukwuma Oligbu, the NAFDAC Director, South-South Zone, explained that the products were all seized from the six states of the…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has clarified that there was no explosion at the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), Delta. Mr Olufemi Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd., in a statement on Friday said that any reports suggesting otherwise were completely false. Soneye said that on Jan. 25, 2025,…
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Harry Maguire headed a last-gasp winner as FA Cup holders Manchester United came from behind to beat Leicester 2-1 on Friday
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The Adamawa government says it has vaccinated over 5 million livestock against various diseases in three years. Alhaji Tijjani Maksha, Commissioner, state Ministry for Livestock and Aquaculture Development, remarked at the inauguration of a mass vaccination campaign for livestock against transboundary animal diseases in Girei on Friday. The commissioner, represented by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary,…
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Federal Government has reaffirmed its continued commitment to ensuring that the migration of Nigerians to other countries was done legally. Mr Muhammad Dingyadi, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this when he received a delegation from the IHK Giessen-Friedberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Germany, in his office on Friday in Abuja. The News Agency…