Lagos – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said his administration would soon unveil a comprehensive national youth empowerment programme to address youth employment, insecurity and other social vices. Buhari disclosed this at the swearing-in of 2015 Batch “A” (Stream II) National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in Lagos. The president spoke through by Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, who …
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BENIN—EDO State Government has banned agents from collection of taxes and levies from artisans, market women, taxi and bus drivers on behalf of local government areas in the state. Chairman of Edo State Board of Internal Revenue Services, Chief Oseni Elamah, who addressed newsmen in Benin, also announced the disengagement of Akugbe Ventures, a private company responsible for collecting levies …
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The Edo 5th Assembly, was on Wednesday dissolved by its Speaker, Mr Uyi Igbe. The legislature, which started in 2011, was dissolved, after a valedictory sitting of the House in Benin “The 5th Assembly of the Edo House of Assembly, which was inaugurated on June 6, 2011, having completed four years, hereby stands dissolved”. “I want to appreciate my colleagues …
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A former Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, has identified the deepening of democracy through electoral reforms as prime among the many profound legacies for which the five years administration of President Jonathan will be remembered for. This was as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Nasarawa State revealed that he ditched the Peoples Democratic …
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The Senate at plenary on Wednesday passed 46 bills earlier passed by the House of Representatives on a single day. While the entire Senate session lasted less than five hours, the lawmakers used about 10 minutes to pass the bills. The decision followed a motion moved by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Ita Enang (APC-Akwa Ibom North-East) …
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday assured Nigerians that he would do all within his powers to ensure that they would not regret entrusting national responsibility to him by electing him during the March 28 presidential election. He said his administration was capable of fixing the nation’s problems. Buhari made the submission in an address he delivered to members of the …
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ABUJA — Barely a week after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, threatened to declare him wanted over alleged laundering of over N300 billion during his tenure, the former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, last night voluntarily surrendered to the agency for interrogation. The former governor walked into the hands of his interrogators at the commission’s head office …
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The guilty pleas of former top Fifa official Chuck Blazer have been detailed with the release of papers from a 2013 hearing in New York. He says that he and others on Fifa’s executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the choice of South Africa as 2010 World Cup host. Mr Blazer says he also accepted bribes over …
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THE shape and faces to the Muhammadu Buhari administration will begin to unfold today baring any last minute change of mind by the president. Among those to be named are the Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF and personal staff of the president and the vice-president. Yesterday, the president requested the Senate to approve 15 …
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By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Tuesday, inaugurated an Administrative Panel of Enquiry into the protest that precipitated the Suspension of Etsako West Local Government Chairman, Hon Alasa Mohammed last month. Comrade Oshiomhole charged the body to look into the immediate and remote causes of the protest which occurred at the premises of the Local Government. The …
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