Anietie Udobit,AbujaPresident Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Arch. Yusuf Kazaure as the board chairman of the Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited, NigComSat.The appointment was contained in a statement on Monday by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, in which the president approved the appointments of chairmen and
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Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, withdrew from the fundamental rights enforcement suit the convener of RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoyele Sowore, filed to challenge his continued detention by the Department of State Service.The judge based his decision on an adverse publication he said Sowore’s online media outlet,
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The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency sealed popular Club Quilox, Victoria Island over Noise Pollution and Traffic CongestionThe Lagos State Government has shut down popular night club, Quilox, which belongs to a House of Representatives member, Shina Peller.The Special Adviser to the governor on New Media, Jubril Gawat, made this known in a tweet
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A federal high court on Monday dismissed the bail application for imprisoned former Abia State governor and lawmaker Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.The court on Thursday, December 5 sentenced Kalu to 12 years imprisonment after being found guilty on all the 39 count charges brought against him.He was convicted of N7.65billion fraud perpetuated when he was
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) says its portfolio investments in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region is $20 billion.This is contained in a statement released by the bank’s Communication and External Relations Department on Sunday.It said that the bank’s President Akinwumi Adesina disclosed this at the ECOWAS Summit held in Abuja
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has announced the official date for the commencement of the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB registrar, disclosed that registration for the UTME would start on January 13 and end on February 17, while the exams will be between March 14 and April 4He
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Wema Bank Plc has committed N2 billion to fund agriculture, support farmers and agric-value chain. The investment reaffirms the bank’s commitment to applying technology in delivering excellent financial solutions to Nigerians.To help to develop the agribusiness value chain, the bank has signed a tripartite commodity aggregation finance scheme with Cellulant Nigeria and Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk
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The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) has said he did not receive any correspondence from some lawmakers in the United States of America over detained activist, Comrade Omoyele Sowore.He said as, at the close of work on the 20th of December, 2019, there was no communication with any
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The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Cross River chapter, Mr Ben Ukpepi, has regained freedom from his abductors, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.Ukpepi, who was released on Sunday evening after being in captivity for six days, was kidnapped in his residence in Akpabuyo local government area of Cross River, near Calabar.Police Public
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