Yobe Govt
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The Yobe government has reiterated commitment to social safety nets to mitigate the impact of rising cost of living in the state. Alhaji Abdullahi Bego, the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, stated this while briefing newsmen on Monday in Damaturu. Bego, who spoke on the outcome of the meeting convened by Gov. Mai…
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The Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) has reiterated its committment to engage stakeholders in promoting professionalism and safety in the built environment. Mr Gbolahan Oki, the General Manager LABSCA, expressed the commitment while announcing plans to engage stakeholders in discussing best practices in the built environment in the state. The LABSCA boss made this…
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The officials of the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) have criticised opposition political parties in the country
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The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Interior, Abdullahi Ahmed, has urged Nigerian youths to suspend the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests and embrace dialogue with the government. In a statement issued to journalists by his Special Assistant on Media, Sardauna Francis, on Monday, Ahmed said the call was due to incidents of looting and…
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President Bola Tinubu's former campaign spokesman in the south east, Denge. Dr. Josef Onoh has told the Kaduna state politician, Senator Shehu Sani, that the south east zone's refusal to join in the bandwagon hunger protest is a protest against Nigeria instead of the Tinubu administration. Onoh said that the adamant in the region was…
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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, is facing another round of criticism for allegedly saying that "those who want to protest can go ahead while we are eating." The Coalition for Parliamentary Democracy (CPD) on Monday said such a comment has further angered the protesters, a development, it observed, has become a threat to…
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Despite the imposition of a 24-hour curfew in Kaduna metropolis, there was a heavy fight between hoodlums in Tudun Wada, Kaduna, and the security operatives on Monday, as the youths continued to emerge in large numbers, destroying properties and looting shops. Meanwhile, it was the intervention of the military that restored sanity in the area…
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Amidst the continuation of hunger protests in parts of the country on the fifth day, President Bola Tinubu on Monday met with his security chiefs, including heads of paramilitary agencies, where he expressed displeasure over the flying of Russian flags by protesters. This came as the National Security Council took exception to the subliminal push…
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The spokesman for the Department of State Services (DSS), Dr Peter Afunanya, said the intelligence and security agencies uncovered and exposed plans by subversive groups and vandals to hijack the nationwide protest. Afunanya said this during the monthly news conference organised by the Strategic Communication Interagency Policy Committee (SCIPC), hosted by the DSS, on Monday…
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Hurricane Debby landed in Florida Monday bringing high winds, pouring rain and 25 tightly wrapped packages of cocaine worth more than $1 million. Debby, which hit the state's northern Big Bend region as a Category One hurricane but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, washed the trove of drugs ashore along Florida's southernmost…
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The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced the successful disbursement of N20,000.00 monthly stipends to 20,371 students. Particularly, the agency said the disbursement is for the month of July and would cover applicants in six tertiary institutions. A statement on Monday by NELFUND Director of Finance and Accounts, Ibom Uche, said the 20,371 beneficiaries…