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Federal Government, yesterday, lauded Google’s N1.2 billion grant initiative to facilitate the one million jobs scheme of the President Bola Tinubu administration. Vice President Kashim Shettima spoke, when he received in audience some executives of Google – a leading global technology company, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to Shettima, the announcement of the grant to support government’s digital jobs …

…. described the appeal as belated and an afterthought A special panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday affirmed the decision of the Ogun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which had earlier struck out all allegations of vote-buying and voter inducement made by the Ogun State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its guber …

The United States Agency for International Development, on Wednesday, said that a new survey has rated Nigeria as the country with the second-highest malnutrition rate in the world. FILE PHOTO: Malnutrition The Director, USAID Mission, Anne Patterson disclosed this at the Trade Fair for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods and Other Life-Saving Nutrition Commodities in Abuja. Citing the most recent Food Consumption …

…Says: making my deputy visible isn’t a crime Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the ‘Emilokan’ syndrome or spirit is not a strategy for winning elections and ruling Edo people. The governor said this when leaders of Edo South Senatorial District visited him in Government House on a solidarity visit today. He said what is happening between him …

Nigeria Police Force said it has cleared Ndiana Abasi Idongesit Udom in an ongoing investigation in which he and one Peace Ekom Robert ‘f’ were declared wanted on July 22nd, 2023 in the media and its official social media platforms. In a press statement on Tuesday signed by Force Headquarters, Abuja Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Nigeria Police …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Edo, Nigeria – Gunmen suspected to be assassins have shot a Pastor and gunned down his wife in Benin City. The Pastor’s Assistant also sustained injuries on his heads during the rain of bullets about 7:36 pm on Monday August 14, 2023. Police identified the clergy as Rev. Dr. Samuel Chinyereugo, and his deceased wife …

Jami’iyyatu Ansariddeen Attijaniyya, an Islamic organisation, has urged the Niger military junta to develop a comprehensive transition plan for the restoration of democratic governance in the country. The National Secretary of the group, Malam Muhammad Yahaya, made the call at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. “We appeal to the military rulers in Niger to abide by the Islamic …

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Tope Ajayi on Tuesday said there were no plans by the administration of President Bola Tinubu to reintroduce fuel subsidy. Ajayi made the assertion on X formerly known as Twitter at 6:08 pm WAT. He said, “There is no plan to reintroduce any form of fuel subsidy. There is …

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has restrained the State Security Service (SSS) and its agents from arresting two siblings of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice E. Okpe, who is the court’s vacation judge, issued the restraining orders in two rulings on separate ex-parte motions filed by George Emefiele and Okanta …

The Federal Government on Tuesday applied to withdraw the charge of illegal possession of firearms filed against the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Director of Public Prosecutions at the Federal Ministry of Justice Mohammed  Bakodo Abubakar who approached the federal high court in Ikoyi with an oral application said the withdrawal followed the result of further …