The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, warned on Monday that figures could be manipulated if a population census was conducted by Nigeria in 2018. He stated that political interests would determine the outcome of the results, rather than the actual figures. The speaker argued that 2018 was too close to 2019, an election year, a reason …
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Former Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has lauded the anti corruption fight by President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as a good omen. The former Kano State governor, made this disclosure to journalists in Sokoto on Monday. Shekarau said, “The efforts by the president to fight corruption in all its ramifications is good for Nigeria. “Anybody, who gets any money …
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The Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Mr. Usman Muktar, says the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, runway is ready for operation and can be opened on Wednesday. Muktar stated this while speaking with journalists during an inspection of the airport’s runway on Monday in Abuja. The Abuja airport was closed on March 8 for six weeks to enable rehabilitation of …
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The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, has appointed Ms Vera Songwe as the first female Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa. A statement on the commision’s website on Monday said that Songwe is a Cameroonian economist and a banking executive. It also said that she was the first woman to ever be appointed to the position. Songwe has …
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A white cloud of pesticides had drifted into Fidelia Morales’s back yard, coating her children’s swing set. The 40-year-old mother of five gestured toward the citrus groves that surround her house in California’s Central Valley as she recounted when an air blast sprayer sent chemicals floating onto her property last year – landing on her family’s red and blue jungle …
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The US vice-president, Mike Pence, has warned North Korea not to test Donald Trump’s resolve over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, adding that the US and its allies were running out of patience with the regime. Noting that Trump had recently ordered a missile strike against Syria, the vice-president, who is in Seoul at the start of a tour …
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The Federal Government says its anti corruption agencies have been inundated with information of how looters have resorted to burying stolen funds in their backyards, deep forests and burial grounds. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Lagos, said the whistle blower policy is working and has led …
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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps says it has uncovered a fake Joint Admission Matriculation Board centre in Maiduguri. The Commandant of the corps in Borno, Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Maiduguri that operators of the fake centre were defrauding applicants. Abdullahi explained that the centre was uncovered on Thursday at the …
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Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s Finance Minister, seems to understand President Muhammadu Buhari’ mindset as far as fighting graft is concerned and is effectively broaching measures that have warmed the President’s heart. One of the measures already yielding positive results is the Whistle-blowing policy, which gives a percentage of recovered looted public fund to the whistleblower, an unprecedented policy that excites Nigerians …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerians to keep faith in the determination and ability of his administration to change the Nigerian story for the good of all. Making the call saturday in his Easter message to Nigerians, Buhari said since assumption of office, his administration had worked hard to meet the expectations of Nigerians in the areas of security, …
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