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An acting registrar has been appointed to take over the office of late Godswill Obioma who died after a brief illness – The new appointee is Ebikibina John Ogborodi, a native of Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa state – Ogborodi who joined NECO in 1999 had occupied several administrative positions before his latest appointment announced on Thursday, June 3 ...
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June, 2021
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4 June
Gov Ayade reveals : I still have respect for PDP, l join APC for…
Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, was at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday .He had a closed door meeting with Mr president. The meeting was held about two weeks after the governor defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Ayade told State House correspondents after the meeting that Buhari influenced him to join the ...
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4 June
Standard Chartered to launch crypto exchange services
Standard Chartered Plc has said it is set to launch a cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage service. The bank said its innovation arm, SC Ventures, would establish the platform. The move will be a joint venture between SC Ventures and BC Technology Group, a Hong Kong-based investment company specialising in digital assets, according to Bitcoin.com. BC Technology operates OSL, the first ...
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4 June
Cooperative Mortgage Bank introduces agency banking tagged COS
Cooperative Mortgage Bank said it has introduced a unique agency banking system called ‘Coop One-Stop’ in order to bring banking closer to the people. The Head of Agency Banking, Mrs Stella Abu, said the initiative was designed to allow agents to be physically present in cooperative society offices, local governments, universities, markets, villages and small communities to provide regular banking ...
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4 June
Man behind burning of Police stations in Imo arrested
The Imo State Police Command on Thursday said it arrested one of the persons who allegedly attacked the Orji Divisional Police Headquarters. A spokesperson for the police in the state, Bala Elkana, said the suspect, Henry Chukwumakpa, 32, was arrested on Wednesday by operatives of the Quick Intervention Unit in conjunction with men of the Ikeduru Divisional Police Headquarters. Elkana, ...
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4 June
Boko Haram depletes Army, NYSC members used for war ,suggested
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig.Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, says corps members are part of the national defence policy of Nigeria and can be mobilised for war if need be. He is saying this at a time Nigeria Army is trying to recruit many, due to many who had died in the asymmetrical war of Boko Haram. The ...
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4 June
“Insecurity, not enough to scrap NYSC”
The NYSC boss, Brig.Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, has maintained that the insecurity in the country was not enough reason to scrap the scheme, adding that till date, 75 per cent of corps members are still serving in rural areas across the country. He added that he had proposed a National Youth Trust Fund through which loans would be given to corps ...
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4 June
Majority of Nestle’s food portfolio is unhealthy, report says
Financial Times reported on a presentation that was circulated among top executives of Nestle this year. This presentation revealed that Nestle, the world’s largest food company, acknowledged that more than 60% of its food and drinks products do not meet a “recognized definition of health” and that some of its categories and products will never be ‘healthy’ no matter how ...
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4 June
FBI arrests another Nigerian, Charles Onus for stealing $800k payroll funds
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested Charles Onus, a Nigerian, for his alleged involvement in diverting $800,000 payroll funds into prepaid debit cards controlled by him. Onus, arrested on April 14, in San Francisco and detained, was on Wednesday presented before a Manhattan federal high court. According to allegations in the indictment filed in the Manhattan court, Onus ...
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3 June
I suddenly remembered why I fell in love with the president – Femi Adesina
President Muhammadu Buhari spoke on Tuesday, warning troublemakers in the country that the picnic was over, and the next day, I saw this comment online from a Buharist, as lovers and admirers of the President are known: “I just finished watching the President on TV reading the riot act to troublemakers, and I couldn’t be prouder of the President. I ...
