Yenagoa—Indigenes of oil producing communities from the six states of the Niger Delta yesterday disrupted vehicular movements along the East-West Road axis of Bayelsa State in protest against alleged diversion of $16 billion compensation paid by Exxon Mobil for the 1998 oil spill incident in the region. The aggrieved communities, which cut across Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Cross River …
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sacked Lt. Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (retd.) as the Chairman of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, five days after the former Chief of Army Staff delivered the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s 78th birthday lecture. The President has named Mr. Ishaya Dare Akau as Agwai’s replacement. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media …
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Network failure and delay characterised the commencement of this year’s Unified Tertiary Institution Examination in many centres in Jos, Plateau State and Lagos; findings by our correspondents have shown. This came even as a former National Universities Commission’s Executive Secretary, Prof. Peter Okebukola, hailed the leadership of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for embarking on a full-scale Computer-Based Test in …
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BENIN—THE Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, Prof. Osasere Orumwense, yesterday reeled out his five years strategic plans for the university, announcing that his administration would ensure the payment of staff salaries on the 19th of every month. Declaring this at the UNIBEN Strategic Plan Forum, which coincided with his one hundred days in office, the vice chancellor, who …
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A former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, on Tuesday called on Nigerians to give President Goodluck Jonathan the benefit of doubt on his assurance not to shift the re-scheduled general elections slated for March 28 and April 11. The former military leader made this remark while speaking with newsmen in Kano during the inauguration of Kano Informatics Institute, Kura. …
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No fewer than 400 buildings have been wrecked, while thousands of residents are rendered homeless, after a windstorm ravaged some streets in Papa Ashafa/Dopemu in the Orile-Agege area of Lagos State. The incident was said to have happened around 4.30pm on Monday. It was gathered that cars parked on the roads were damaged as concrete electric poles fell on them …
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ABUJA—The Senate Joint Committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, yesterday, disclosed that it has finished working on the Bill and is proposing the privatisation of Nigeria’s four refineries two years after the passage of the Bill. Just as the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, proposes the complete deregulation of the nation’s downstream sector, not exceeding six years after …
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If the abducted Chibok girls are rescued from the Boko Haram den, former Minister for Education and #BringBackOurGirls front liner, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, would display her dancing skills, she said on Monday. Some heavily armed men stormed Government Girls’ College, Chibok in Borno State, 328 days ago, and whisked away over 200 girls to Sambisa forest. Since then, several calls …
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Benin, Edo Nigeria – By Ola Airenakho Royal Father and the Enogie of Oghobase in the Edo South Senatorial District, His Royal Highness, Prince Idu Akenzua has pledged support to Governor Adams Oshiomhole in ensuring victory for his ruling All Progressives Congress, in the forthcoming elections in the state. The Enogie (Duke) Akenzua who said his decision was based on …
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Some of Nigeria’s top lawyers were yesterday divided over the move by the All Progressives Congress, APC to have Mrs. Patience Jonathan, wife of President Goodluck Jonathan prosecuted by the International Criminal Court over alleged hate speech. The move which was derided by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was, however, thumbed up by a number of Nigeria’s prominent political actors …
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