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President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the auctioning of the 5G spectrum, which generated 547 million dollars. The president attributed the feat to the digital economy, which had driven growth, created employment and generated revenue for the country, The president said this at the National Shared Services Centre, a one-stop-shop for Ministries, Departments and Agencies to (MDAs) interface with citizens, which …

•Court stops Emefiele’s arrest •Declares Buhari’s authority required to arrest CBN gov •Frowns at use of court to cover for irregular procedure, ‘which is unacceptable’  •DSS talks tough •Top politicians, lawmakers, governors fingered in plot   Some elder statesmen, eminent Nigerians and government officials last night moved to resolve differences among some government agencies that have arisen following the redesigning of …

Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has promised to conquer poverty in Nigeria, if elected in 2023. Tinubu, who made the promise at the Town Hall meeting of the South-South region on Tuesday in Calabar, said that he would deploy all the human and material resources God had bestowed on the country to move it out of …

Germany handed over 20 looted artefacts back to Nigeria on Tuesday, saying it was to “right a wrong” more than 100 years after they were stolen by British colonial troops. Thousands of 16th to 18th century metal plaques, sculptures and objects — hailed as some of the finest African art — were ransacked by British forces from the ancient Kingdom …

Presidential candidate of the Labour Pary, LP, Peter Obi said he attends church events because Nigeria needs prayers. Obi stated this in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital on Tuesday when he visited the former prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria and a former president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) His Eminence Dr Sunday Mbang at his …

Insists commission won’t succumb to threats. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, said many politicians are unhappy with current efforts by the commission and security agencies to stop vote buying during the 2023 polls and are expected to fight back. The commission said though it is not going to be easy to root out the negative influence of money on …

Kindly share this story: Nigeria’s Senate has confirmed the appointment of the president’s Special Assistant on New Media, Lauretta Ifeanyi-Onochie, as the substantive Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission Board. The Senate Tuesday at the plenary also confirmed 12 others except two who didn’t attend the screening conducted last Friday at the National Assembly complex, the Punch reports. The …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Monday, led delegates of the German Government to inspect the site for the proposed Edo Museum of West African Arts (EMOWAA). Obaseki, while conducting the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media (BKM), Claudia Roth on a guided tour of the project site in Benin City, said the …

Washington, D.C. – The national director of Priests for Life, Frank Pavone, canceled a scheduled livestreamed Mass on Sunday, one day after CNA published a report that he was continuing to celebrate Mass after the Vatican had removed him from the priesthood. In a defiant statement addressed to Church leaders and posted on his organization’s website Saturday, Pavone vowed to …

*Banks get guidelines to sell their 60% shares in DisCos to new investors *VP receives RMAFC delegation, speaks at public presentation of “Musings of a Precant” in Lagos National Council on Privatization (NCP) presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has approved the sum of N1.371 billion for the settlement of outstanding redundancy benefits owed the workers of Skyway …