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Suspected Fulani herdsmen have reportedly killed a 35-year-old farmer, Mr. Ariyo Aina, on his way to the farm at Ogga community in Yagba West Council of Kogi State. National president of Ogga Progressive Union (OPU) Mr. Bamidele Olure, told journalists ...
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Peace workshop on Bayelsa State guber election holds tomorrow
Ahead of the November 16, 2019 governorship election in Bayelsa State, the Ijaw Professionals Association (IPA) will, tomorrow, hold a workshop in Yenagoa towards achieving credible, violence-free polls. IPA is organising the workshop in collaboration with Ijaw Nations Forum (INF), ...
Read More »Use dynamic policies, capable managers to drive economy cleric tells Buhari
The Federal Government has been advised to put in place dynamic policies and bring on board capable economic managers that will drive the economy. Chairman, Wilson Badejo Foundation and General Overseer Emeritus, Foursquare Gospel Church Nigeria, Dr. Wilson Adebogun Badejo, ...
Read More »1000 indigent persons to get free medical service in Edo
The Imalu Airiemhionkha Ebhoaye Memorial Foundation said it will provide free medical services to 1,000 persons in Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State. It explained that the programme is aimed at improving the standard of living and access to ...
Read More »Excellence should guide choice of new VC, Anglican Church tells UNN authorities
The Anglican Diocese of Nsukka has charged the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) to be guided by quality standard and excellence in choice of successor to the outgoing Vice Chancellor, Professor Chukwuma Ozumba. It advised the institution’s management to shun ...
Read More »Vice President Osinbajo promises to offer editors slots in NIPSS
Vice President Yemi Osibanjo has promised that the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) will soon have participants in the Senior Executive Course of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). He said members of the NGE, the umbrella ...
Read More »40 physically challenged persons, 188 others get N300, 000 each from FG
The Federal Government has given N300, 000 empowerment package to 40 persons with disabilities (PWDs) and 188 youths and women each at the graduation ceremonies of Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs for trainees in Delta, Edo and Akwa Ibom states. ...
Read More »Judge accuses defence counsel of frustrating Metuh’s N400m trial
Justice Okon Abang of Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, yesterday expressed displeasure over tactics of defence counsel of former National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, in a N400m alleged fraud case. Metuh had been ...
Read More »Auctioneers seek quick disposal of recovered national assets
National President of the Nigeria Association of Auctioneers, Aliyu Kiliya, has sought quick disposal of recovered national assets to forestall untoward acts from government functionaries. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, he contended that the assets had long overdue for ...
Read More »Nigeria’s GDP dips to two per cent in Q1 2019, analysts predict more shocks, urge urgent action
The nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reversed its major leap in the fourth quarter of 2018 from 2.39 per cent to 2.01 in the first quarter of 2019, representing a decline of -0.38 per cent points. The development, which is ...
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