Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Thursday warned nations across the world to return all the looted artifacts belonging to Nigeria or prepare for legal battle. Mohammed said that Federal Government would use all “legal and diplomatic instruments” to demand the return of Nigeria’s stolen artifacts and cultural materials worldwide. Disclosing this on Thursday in Lagos, Mr. Lai …
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The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said the Finance Bill will become effective on January 2, 2020. Ahmed, while speaking during a panel session at the PwC Executive Session on Finance Bill and Tax Strategy, said the bill would be reviewed annually as the Federal Government planned to grow the ratio of revenue to …
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The Federal Road Safety Corps on Thursday made a U-turn on the use of Google map while driving. On Wednesday, the Sector Commander, Federal Capital Territory, Corps Commander Wobin Ayuba Gora had said that driving with the aid of Google map using mobile phones is a serious traffic offence. However, in a statement signed by Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Commander Public Education Officer, …
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No evidence of hate speech was observed in Nigerian newspapers’ reports monitored between July and September 2019, according to a survey. The survey comes against the backdrop of the controversial Hate Speech Bill currently in the works at the Senate. The bill, which has outraged many Nigerians, provides for the death penalty for anyone who utters hate speech that leads …
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The Nigerian Army on Wednesday released 983 suspects cleared of links with Boko Haram insurgents. Maj.-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, the Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD), made the disclosure in Maiduguri at the formal handing over of the suspects to the Borno State Government. Adeniyi disclosed that the suspects comprised of 978 males and five females. He said that the affected …
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The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board CDCFIB has approved the suspension of three officers and six other ranks of the Nigerian Correctional Service implicated in the alleged internet fraud, suspected to have been perpetrated by Hope Olusegun Aroke, an inmate serving a term of imprisonment in Kirikiri Maximum Security Custodial Centre, Lagos. Spokesman of the Service, Controller …
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Three men in Baltimore, United States, who spent 36 years in prison were found innocent on Monday, November 25, of the 1983 murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead over a jacket. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins were serving life sentences for the shooting of DeWitt Duckett, a 14-year-old student at Harlem Park Junior High School …
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said there is no going back on its stand concerning it’s refusal to be included in the Federal Government’s Intergrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. Biodun Ogunyemi, National President of the union, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos that there is nowhere in the world where such a development …
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Dozens of protesters on Wednesday marched to the National Assembly gate to ask the Senate to drop the bill to regulate the social media in Nigeria. The two senators who addressed the protesters pledged that despite the bill being sponsored by their colleague, the Senate would do the bidding of Nigerians. The protest started around 9:25 a.m. Wednesday. Two groups, …
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•ASUU members shun FG order, CONUA complies There were indications on Tuesday that any federal university lecturers that failed to register for the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System might forfeit their December salary. The PUNCH gathered that officials at the Accountant General of the Federation Office had arrived at some universities and begun the enrolment of workers in the institutions …
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