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14 Jun
This Sunday’s Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) encounter between Sporting Lagos and Enyimba is shaping up to be a nail-biter, with both teams battling for their lives at opposite ends of the table. The match, airing live on StarTimes Beta Sports Channel 244 at 4 PM, will have major ramifications for both the relegation battle…
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The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has gifted the sum of N20 million to the families of police officers killed recently in a ghastly accident along the Zaria-Kano expressway. The five policemen deployed from the Kano command to Edo State for the gubernatorial poll were involved in the unfortunate road…
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The Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Kunle Salako, on Friday, assured Nigerians that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is tougher and resolute to win the war against the current economic hardship being experienced in the country. Salako said this is evidenced by the President's determination to improve power generation, transmission, and distribution, as well as…
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Former Governor of Rivers State and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has declared that all his political enemies put together cannot fight him. The minister, who has been in a festering political battle with State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors, boasted that he is too big…
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A former governorship candidate in Zamfara and ex-Special Adviser to former governor Bello Matawalle, Sani Shinkafi, on Saturday backed the Defense Headquarters' investigation into the sponsorship of banditry in Nigeria's North West geopolitical zone. It is said that the initiative is deemed essential for achieving sustainable peace and security in the region, which has been…
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Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has expressed pride in having made an Ijaw man the governor of Rivers State. Speaking on Saturday at an event organised by the Rivers Ijaw Peoples Congress in Port Harcourt, Wike said that God used him to make Siminalayi Fubara the governor of the South-South state. Dismissing…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has raised the alarm over the growing issue of oil theft, calling it a major threat to Nigeria’s economic stability and security. The corporation outlined its ongoing challenges, including oil theft, emphasizing the urgent need for collective action to tackle this issue, which poses a significant threat to Nigeria's…
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The Minister of State for Environment, Dr. Iziaq Salako, has said that more intense extreme weather, widespread flooding, large storms, heat waves, long droughts, wildfires, coastal erosion, and hurricanes, as a result of climate change, have increased demands for healthcare in Nigeria. Salako asserted this while presenting a paper titled ‘Building a Resilient Health Workforce:…
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The Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, Muhammed Faruk, has disclosed that Lokoja metropolis will begin receiving adequate water supply from this week. He assured that the supply would also extend to other areas like Phase Two and other parts of Kogi State in due course. The commissioner made this statement while receiving an award…
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Residents of Okpella in Etsako East Local Government Area on Saturday protested against the appointment of His Highness, Lukeman Akemokhue, as the newly installed Okueokpellagbe of Okpella by the Edo State Government. Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, had on Friday approved the appointment of Lukeman Akemokhue as the Okueokpellagbe of Okpella in a letter dated…
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Saudi Arabia has carried out its highest number of executions in more than three decades after three executions announced Saturday took the 2024 figure to 198, according to an AFP tally. The Gulf monarchy executed the third highest number of prisoners in the world after China and Iran in 2023, according to Amnesty International. The…