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INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTY-FIRST INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, FRIDAY 1ST OCTOBER, 2021. President Muhammadu Buhari Citizens of Nigeria. It is with full gratitude to God that today, we celebrate Nigeria’s sixty-first Independence Anniversary. For 1st of October 1960 to happen, all hands were on deck. …

Edo State Government has intensified the vaccination of citizens across the state’s 18 local government areas, urging those who have not been inoculated to come out and get vaccinated in order to remain healthy and protected against the deadly virus. The State COVID-19 Incident Manager, Dr. Andrew Obi, gave the charge after the daily virtual meeting of the State COVID-19 …

United States House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on Thursday to avert a shutdown by extending government funding through December 3. The bill passed the Senate earlier in the day with a bipartisan vote, and the measure must now be signed into law by President Joe Biden, which he is expected to do, the CNN reported. Government funding …

Oyo State Government says it will ensure the domestication of national medical oxygen policy to reduce infant, child and maternal mortality and COVID-19 related deaths. Dr Muideen Olatunji, the Executive Secretary, Oyo State Primary Healthcare Board, made the commitment at the Stakeholders Engagement Meeting on Oxygen Security on Thursday in the state, according to report by the News Agency of …

Kaduna, Nigeria –  A Catholic priest has described last Sunday’s attacks on villages in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State as a “massacre” against native people, many of whom are Christian. An estimated 49 people, including women and children, were killed in a two-hour-long attack by Muslim Fulani herdsman who “came in large numbers and began shooting at anything on sight,” according …

Washington, D.C. –  Bishops should consider requiring DNA tests or physical examinations to ensure that all seminarians are biological men, said Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki in a recent memo sent to the members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). “Recently, the Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance was made aware of instances where it had been …

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36 State governors in the country to rally and earnestly begin the process of correcting the ills in society. CAN President, Rev Samson Ayokunle, made the call in a message to mark Nigeria’s 61st Independence Day Anniversary in Abuja, on Thursday. In a statement, the CAN …

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has granted an application Lagos State filed to be joined as an interested party in the suit that stripped the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, of the right to collect Value Added Tax, VAT. The Appellate Court, in a unanimous decision by a three-man panel of Justices, on Thursday, held that Lagos …

Some Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) have criticised Wednesday’s ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which prohibited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from prosecuting a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, in respect of a N7.1billion fraud case sent back for retrial by the Supreme Court last year. The prominent senior advocates, Itse Sagay, Jibrin …

Tertiary institutions in Nigeria failed to utilise over 400,000 admission slots in 2020 despite hundreds of thousands of candidates available to fill such spaces, a report by the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has said. The culpable institutions include universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, JAMB stated in the report. However, in interviews with PREMIUM TIMES, officials of some …