The Asokoro residence of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, in Abuja caught fire on Sunday evening. It was gathered that security personnel and some first responders on the ground at the time of the incident were able to put off the fire which was caused by a suspected electrical fault in the minister’s room. Sources familiar …
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The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has described the appointment of the National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams, as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, as well deserved. This was contained in a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Adedayo Adeneye, on …
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Immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday explained that the plea by President Muhammadu Buhari to the world Bank to come to the aid of the North East was borne out of the President’s genuine concern to attract international assistance to the over two million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North East as a result …
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The Presidency Sunday said that neither the report that $25 billion worth of oil contracts were awarded by the NNPC nor that $25 billion in NNPC funds was missing was true. The Senior Special Assistant to the President, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande in a statement in Abuja said that there were no contracts procured by the NNPC …
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No fewer than 29 people mostly women and children were in the early hours of Monday killed during an attack in Nkiedonwhro village of Irigwe chiefdom in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. Mambilla Plateau It would be recalled that series of attacks said to be carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen have been occurring in villages in the …
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Mitch McConnell will meet Donald Trump for lunch on Monday, two days after the president’s former chief strategist called for the metaphorical assassination of the Senate majority leader. Speaking to a religious conservative audience at the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Saturday, Steve Bannon called for “a season of war against [the] GOP establishment” and said: “This is our …
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Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, thursday led a National Assembly delegation to partake in the 137th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly taking place in St. Petersburg, Russia, with the theme: ‘Promoting Cultural Pluralism and Peace through Inter-faith and Inter-ethnic Dialogue.’ Saraki who is a member of the Governing Board of the IPU, according to a statement by his Chief Press …
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Kachikwu: Issues raised in memo were not on fraud but governance Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo Thursday broke his silence on the notion that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the financing loans for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) when the president was receiving treatment in the United Kingdom and had handed over power to him as acting president, stating that he (Osinbajo) …
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Former White House strategist Steve Bannon declared war on the Republican establishment on Saturday, comparing Mitch McConnell to Julius Caesar and asking “who’s going to be Brutus” in the political assassination of the Senate majority leader. In an unapologetic speech at the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington DC, Bannon called on the social conservatives assembled in the cavernous ballroom …
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In his speech on the Iran nuclear agreement, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), President Trump made a number of factual assertions. The deal was negotiated by Iran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France and China), Germany and the European Union. Here’s a guide to some of …
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