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The recent poor rating of Nigeria in its anti-corruption campaign by the Transparency International (TI) received the attention of the federal government yesterday as it punctured the assessment, saying it was full of discrepancies, inaccurate data and indices. The National Contact to TI in Nigeria, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), had on Tuesday, accused the present Nigerian government ...
March, 2021
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25 March
Gunmen Kidnap FCTA Worker, Three Others, Demand 200m Ransom
Gunmen have abducted a worker with the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and three other persons during a pre-dawn raid on Kiyi Town, in Kuje Area Council, Abuja. Residents disclosed that scores of men, armed with AK-47 guns, went from house to house to carry out the raid, between 12. 30 am and 2 am yesterday when the residents had ...
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25 March
Moves to cut Chairman Power gain momentum
A Bill seeking to amend the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act 2004 and amongst other things address the existing lacuna in the Act by introducing provision that would limit the time frame within which a person appointed as the chairman of the commission could occupy the position in acting capacity, has passed the second reading in the House of ...
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24 March
APC plans to be in power for another 32 years – Buni .
Was it not PDP chair, Vincent Ogbulafor who boasted in 2014 that his party, confident of dusting the battle-weary GMB again at the 2015 polls, would rule for another 60 years? Six months after, they were picking their tongues on the floor, after a dramatic and unimaginable drubbing at the polls. Now, Yobe state governor and chairman of the Caretaker ...
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24 March
20% of Nigerian ‘ll get Vaccine this year – Osinbajo
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said Nigeria would receive 84 million doses of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine this year. Nigeria had already taken delivery of about four million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. This year, we will receive 84 million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine under that same scheme, which would be enough to vaccinate about 20 per cent of ...
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24 March
Kwara gov appoints 24-year-old lady special adviser
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has named 24-year-old Adeyi Kaosarah as his Senior Special Assistant on Youth Engagement. This was contained in a press statement on Tuesday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye. According to the statement, the governor also appointed Hajia Fatima Jummai Audu as Special Adviser on Women Affairs. Kaosarah, an author who is ...
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24 March
What Ambode said @ his inauguration into APC Committee
Former Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, says his selection as a member of All Progressives Congress 61-member Contact and Strategy Committee is a call to serve the ruling party and the nation. Ambode, who was governor of Lagos between 2015 and 2019, stated this when the Chairman of the Caretaker/ Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the APC, Mai ...
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24 March
Traditional worshippers demand stoppage of Reps hijab bill
The global head of Ifa priests, otherwise called the Araba Agbaye, Chief Owolabi Aworeni, on Tuesday cautioned the Kwara State Governor, Abdualrahman Abdulrazaq, against actions that might incite violence in the state. Also, Aworeni urged the House of Representatives to halt a bill which sought to institutionalise the use of hijab in the country. The issue of hijab has spurred ...
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24 March
FG begs Labour over planned wage bill strike
The Federal Government has pleaded with the organised labour not to embark on strike over the minimum wage bill in the National Assembly. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, made the appeal Tuesday at the inauguration of the National Labour Advisory Council in Owerri, Imo State. The event was virtually declared open by the Vice President, Yemi ...
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24 March
FG begins Concession of highways..see the 12 & how to apply
The Federal Government on Tuesday issued a notice for the commencement of the procurement process for the 12 federal highways mapped for concession under the Highway Development Management Initiative. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, issued the notice in Abuja and unveiled the portal that was developed to ensure that the procurement process was seamless. The 12 highways so ...
