The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency has taken delivery of brand-new mass transit boats for staff use.The Director General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, said this in his official Twitter handle on Tuesday.The information reads: “We are practising what we preach. Our deliberate policy of NIMASA staff commuting to
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The management of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, on Tuesday, announced the suspension of all academic activities in the institution for two weeks.The suspension followed a protest staged by the students of the school over an imposed N5,000 late registration fee by the university.EKSU management had announced that the late payment
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the request of the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, seeking a free zone status for Ekiti Knowledge Zone.This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Mr Ifedayo Sayo, Special Assistant to the minister.According to Sayo, the approval was
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The Chairman/Founder of the airline, Chief Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide, was barred from entering Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, the headquarters of Arik Air.Arumemi-Ikhide with some of his aides had arrived the premises of the airline in line with the court order which granted him access to the premises.AMCON had taken over
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Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says Dino Melaye does not have what it takes to be governor.Wike spoke on Tuesday at a media chat in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers.Dino Melaye, a former senator, is among the contenders screened by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the primary
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The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the Prresident-elect in the Feb. 25 election.The APC, the 4th
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The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has described the Bill to prevent Nigerian-trained medical doctors from being issued full practicing licenses or allowed to travel abroad for five years as modern-day slavery.The bill sponsored by Hon. Ganiyu Abiodun Johnson in the House of Representatives is titled, “A Bill for
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The Imo State chapter of Labour Party (LP) has announced the postponement of the party’s governorship primary to Saturday, April 15, 2023.The chairman of the Labour Party Management Committee for Imo State, Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie, disclosed this to journalists in Owerri, yesterday evening.He said the national leadership of the party
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A lecturer with the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Dr Ishaq Osagie-Eweka has dragged the commissioner of police in Edo State, CP Mohammed Adamu Dankwara before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over alleged “unlawful, unconstitutional arrest and detention.”This was contained in NHRC's acknowledgement letter marked C/2023/CPR/226/HQ, dated February 21, 2023
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President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a message of condolence to the family of the late Idris Abdulkadir, Professor of Veterinary Surgery and Medicine and former executive secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), describing him as a scholar par excellence and a towering statesman. “He was a versatile personality and a great scholar,”
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