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The president, Muhammadu Buhari, has condole with the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) on the passing of its National President, Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel. Khaleel, also the National Treasurer of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), slumped on Wednesday and was rushed to the National Hospital, Abuja, where he was confirmed dead. In a statement signed by presidential media aide ...
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October, 2020
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9 October
PMB, THIS SON OF A TEACHER SAYS THANK YOU
“A good teacher is like a candle-it consumes itself to light the way for others,” said Turkish statesman, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. And that is what teachers in Nigeria had been for ages. They burn themselves out to light the way for all other professions, and we thereafter ask them to go get their rewards in Heaven. We squeeze and suck ...
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9 October
Court summons Tinubu over Alpha-Beta
A Lagos high court has asked Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of the state and a national leader of the ruling All Congress Party to appear before it within 42 days. The order followed a suit filed by one Mr. Oladapo Apara of Infiniti Systems Enterprises against Tinubu, alongside Mr. Akin Doherty and Alpha-beta consulting LLP as co-defendants. The ...
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9 October
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yet to emerge winner @ WTO
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has not been appointed as the new Director-General of World Trade Organization (WTO). The news is in town that she has been emerged as the first female Leader of the organization. But, it is not true, Ngozi, is yet to be appointed. The last round of interviews are scheduled for between October 20 and 27, as only two ...
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9 October
EndSARS protest: Tiwa Savage, Runtown, Falz, 10 other Nigerian musicians shut down Lagos
Singer, Tiwa Savage, Falz, Runtown and 10 other celebrities on Thursday took to the streets of Lagos for the EndSARSprotest.They were joined by other of their colleagues in the entertainment industry for a protest against police brutality in the country.
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9 October
Okonjo-Iweala thanks Buhari, friends, as WTO announces her, S. Korea’s Yoo as last two DG contenders
Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday thanked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) members, President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerians and her friends around the world for their continued support in her quest to clinch the prestigious position of Director General of the global trade organisation. Okonjo-Iweala’s message came on the heels of WTO’s announcement on Thursday that she and ...
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8 October
Johnny Nash, writer of the 1972 hit, “I Can See Clearly Now” dies @ 80.
I can see clearly now the rain is gone I can see all obstacles in my way Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind It’s gonna be a bright (bright) Bright (bright) sunshiny day It’s gonna be a bright (bright) Bright (bright) sunshiny day Oh, yes I can make it now the pain is gone All of the ...
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8 October
NLC reveals : Officials embezzled COVID-19 funds, workers didn’t her palliatives
Nigeria Labour Congress has alleged that many workers did not get the COVID-19 palliatives promised by the Federal Government, stating that the money for the programme was misappropriated. The congress also said that the number of working poor was increasing in the country, noting that the Nigerian workers faced a bleak future. The FG had claimed that it spent millions ...
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8 October
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee emerge finalists in WTO Race
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee are through to the final round of selection to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organization, three sources said on Wednesday. The reduction of the field from five to two means, if confirmed, that the 25-year-old, Geneva-based trade body would be led by a woman for the first time. Okonjo-Iweala, ...
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8 October
Court jails Rivers hacker for defrauding bank N26.9m
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Wednesday sentenced a hacker, Eric Obulo, to one-year imprisonment for hacking into the database of a commercial bank and defrauding it of $70,000 (N26.9m). The court, presided over by Justice I. M. Sani, convicted and sentenced Obulo to prison with an option of N5m fine for the crime committed ...
