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A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, says the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ayo Oke, did not fund former President Goodluck Jonathan campaign in 2015. Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, said this in a tweet on Monday. There had been reports that the N13bn found by the Economic and …

Turkish police on Monday used tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse protesters seeking to defy a ban and march to Istanbul’s Taksim square to celebrate May Day, an AFP journalist reported. Police tried to stop around 200 protesters in the Gayrettepe district on the European side of Istanbul who wanted to walk to the famous square in spite of …

You could measure Donald Trump’s victory in the silence and stillness on both sides of this sunbaked border. The reception centre in McAllen, Texas which used to feed and clothe hundreds of migrants and refugees daily is now nearly deserted. The shelters in Reynosa, Mexico, where travellers thronged in preparation to cross the Rio Grande are now quieter than libraries. …

Donald Trump has reportedly appointed to a position overseeing the US’s family planning safety net a law professor who once stated that “contraception doesn’t work” and “family planning is something that occurs between a husband and a wife and God, and it doesn’t really involve the federal government.” The prospect of Teresa Manning becoming deputy assistant secretary for population affairs …

In what appears a May Day clemency, the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday pardoned three out of the four teachers and labour leaders who were sacked in October 2016 for allegedly breaching the civil service rule during the year’s World Teachers Day celebration held on October 5. The Governor announced the clemency while making his speech at …

The Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu has vowed not to revive any dead industry in the state, rather, his administration would begin new industries. Specifically, he said a new glass industry will be established in the state to replace the dead Oluwa Glass Industry. Akeredolu stated this while addressing the workers in the state during the celebration of 2017 …

Angry workers in their thousand disrupted the 2017 May Day celebrations at the Eagle Square, Abuja, over the failure of the Federal Government to give them a new minimum wage in the country. The workers insisted that the Federal Government had a responsibility to give them a definite position on the lingering issue of a new minimum wage in the …

The Federal Government has said it would further review its pricing template for petrol with the aim of removing several multi-layered charges and costs that affect the pump price of petrol at service stations across the country. The government also said it would continue to work with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to find ways of providing subsidised foreign …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned companies – foreign and local, doing business in Nigeria against engaging in acts that could undermine Nigerian’s economy. Obasanjo said the emphasis today is on making Nigeria self – sustaining in production and consumption, vowing that he would kick against companies, whether indigenous or expatriates, that want to use unwholesome business practices to sabotage …

Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology, says the present administration was putting measures in place towards moving the economy to prosperity. Onu told newsmen at the sidelines of the ministry’s Investment Forum in New York that one of such measures was the emphasis on science and technology-based economy. “Our economy, since independence, has relied on commodities; our …