The Africa Cup of Nations third-place play-off has been brought forward a day from Sunday to this Saturday, February 5, the Confederation of African Football said on Wednesday. The match will now be played on Saturday at 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) having initially been scheduled to start just three …
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File: Abdulrasheed Maina A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Rukkayat Ibrahim, on Wednesday in Abuja admitted that the offences for which a former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, was tried and imprisoned were committed between 2011 and 2017. According to her, a …
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•Kidnap suspects shot dead after shoot out with security operatives on Benin-Auchi road Senate President Ahmad Lawan The military should take the battle to bandits, the Senate said yesterday. It urged the Federal Government to deploy fighter jets to flush out terrorists from their hideouts. These were some resolutions taken …
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Pledges support for frontier exploration Mele Kyari, GMD, NNPC The Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) has commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) for repositioning the Nigerian oil and gas industry into a competitive business environment. The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Bassey Albert Akpan, gave the …
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Wema-bank-liquidity-crisis-worsens Wema Bank, one of Nigeria’s troubled lenders is battling heavy liquidity crisis despite distraction with the Davido ambassadorship curve. Wema Bank may have a serious challenge withstanding the shocks Nigeria’s fragile economy might throw up as it is currently struggling with a liquidity squeeze. Exclusively reports that the third-quarter …
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N115.4 billion for the dualisation of the proposed Kano-Kazaure-Kongolam highway in Katsina state. This was disclosed to newsmen after the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, who briefed State House correspondents alongside …
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Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State. Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has said that kidnappers, armed robbers, Yahoo Boys and other criminals are after his life. The governor said the criminals resorted to the ploy following the unrelenting war being waged against them in the state by his government. Abiodun …
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Senator Rochas Okorocha/Internet The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Thursday, said accused the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, of sponsoring the so-called unknown gunmen in Imo State and trying to use IPOB for political gains. The media and publicity secretary of the group, Comrade Emma Powerful, stated this …
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Two aggrieved governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State have said that despite their displeasure about the recently conducted governorship primary election of the party, they will not defect to any political party. The two aggrieved aspirants who are also members of the National Assembly Opeyemi Bamidele …
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… Firm Begins Probe Of Explosion A Trinity Spirit Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Vessel on Wednesday exploded causing raging fire within Nigeria’s coast. The Trinity Spirit Vessel is an Offshore Support Vessel built 46 years ago. The FPSO serves as the primary production facility for OML 108 and it …
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