The Police Command in Rivers has explained why it deployed about 30 armed policemen and Armoured Personnel Carriers to the residential quarters of members of the state House of Assembly in Port Harcourt. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deployment has heightened political tension in the state amidst face-off between some lawmakers and the state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. …
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•Let’s redesign the country or …•Vows not to run for president or any elective office under the present structure•Explains how FG can be made accountable to the people•Why I hardly lose my battles The Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has carved a niche for himself by being blunt, accentuating his opinion and always speaking truth to power. The strong-willed …
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The Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Barrister Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, has disclosed that 100 female orphans who lost their parents in banditry attacks in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State will be given out in marriage this month. The Speaker, who pledged to pay the dowries for the bridegrooms, has procured all the materials needed for proper …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged the Nigerian government to prohibit foreign missions in the country from charging visa and other consular services in foreign currencies. The EFCC has further advised all embassies to align with Nigeria’s regulatory framework by pegging the cost of their services to the local currency exchange rate. It contends that offering consular …
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•••says no respite for Nigerians since May 29 President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, in this chat with Vanguard after the Workers’ Day celebration, speaks on how workers have felt in the last one year, labour relationship with the present government, electricity tariff hike among others. No breathing space On May 29, 2023, the narrative changed by mere pronouncement of …
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Opposition All Progressives Congress Gubernatorial candidate in September 2024 governorship elections in Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo has called for restraints in the fall out from the legal tussle between some Enigie (Dukes) and the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II. In a state made available to Alltimepost.com on Friday, the Monday Okpebholo/Dennis Idahosa Campaign Organization had this to say: …
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Edo State Government has absorbed itself of complicity in the legal case instituted by some Enigie (Dukes) against His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin. It noted that it was painful that the matter which “is essentially among brothers had degenerated to the point of litigation.” The government was reacting to the …
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At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him. Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights. …
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has insisted that its order made on April 17, for the arrest and production of ex-governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello still subsists. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on Friday, May 10, held that Bello’s continued refusal to attend court and his frustration with the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to …
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Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, arrived in Nigeria on Friday to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick service members and veterans, among them Nigerian soldiers fighting a 14-year war against Islamic extremists. The couple, visiting the West African nation for the first time on the invitation of its military, arrived …
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