A public funeral procession and memorial service for boxing legend Muhammad Ali will take place in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky on Friday, a family spokesman said. Former US president Bill Clinton, comedian Billy Crystal and sports journalist Bryant Gumbel will offer eulogies for Ali, the three-time world heavyweight champion who died on Friday at age 74 after a long …
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An unusual pressure is learnt to have been mounted on President Muhammadu Buhari by internal and external forces to drop the idea of publicly naming the names of alleged looters of the national treasury and the amount each individual had returned. However, the details of the money recovered so far have been made public today by the Ministry of Information. …
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President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday to late boxing great Muhammad Ali, saying that he was a towering champion “who fought for what was right” not just in the ring but outside it as well. The former heavyweight champion, who passed away late Friday after struggling for years with Parkinson’s, was “a man who fought for us,” the US president …
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The Federal Government on Saturday (today) released the highly anticipated list of recovered loot. In a statement by the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the government revealed that the recoveries were made between May 29, 2015 and May 25, 2016. The government gave the breakdown of the loot as N78, 325,354,631.82; $185,119,584.61; £3,508,355.46 and €11, 250. …
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THE leadership of the National Assembly and Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday raised an alarm over what they described as alleged attempt to destabilize the nation through the activities of militancy in the Niger Delta and the South East and urged elders and leaders from the zones to rise up and secure the unity of the nation. While the Senate President, …
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Heavyweight boxing legend Muhammad Ali, an icon of the 20th Century whose fame transcended the sport during a remarkable career that spanned three decades, died Friday, his family said. The beloved 74-year-old sports hero, who had been battling Parkinson’s disease for decades, passed away in a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, where he had been admitted earlier this week suffering from …
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The Presidency on Friday, explained that top political office holders in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government from the Niger Delta region, have started peaceful dialogue with their kith and kins who are involved in the spate of ongoing bombings of oil facilities in the area. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, …
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), after the Combined Policy Meeting with stakeholders which took place yesterday, announced that the deadline for 2016/2017 admission exercise will be on Wednesday, 30th November, 2016. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, who made the announcement, said that it was imperative for all vice-chancellors, rectors and provosts to abide by the agreement and …
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As the government is working hard to tackle tomato vermin (Ebola) , which has ravaged tomato production in the northern part of the country, another disease which affects maize production has surfaced in the South- West and Edo State. The disease called Army Worm was detected recently in the South-West and Edo, but the government said measures had been put …
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The Federal Government and the organised labour, on Monday, commenced the process of upward review of the national minimum wage from the current N18,000. Government has also inaugurated a 16-man technical committee to work out modalities for the implementation of palliatives to cushion the effect of fuel price hike from N86.50 to N145. The tripartite meeting was inaugurated by the …
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