The Federal Government is set to award some Nigerian entertainment personalities with National Honours for their significant contributions to the country.The Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs announced the awards in various cadres.Some of the prominent singers and entertainment personalities who would receive national honours include David Adeleke, popularly
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of 32 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) believed to be for bandits camp in Niger State.The spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said this was part of the clampdown during
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The final pay in office for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, state governors and other political appointees about to leave office may cost the country about N64.72bn; findings by The Punch have shown.The figure also covers the pay for ministers, commissioners, National Assembly members,
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Rev. Keoleh Saleh, the President of the Baptist Conference in Plateau, says that 50 members of the church, including a pastor, were killed in recent attacks in Mangu and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state.Saleh disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in
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The family of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra group, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has distanced itself from the alleged plans to disrupt Monday’s inauguration of the new administration in Abia State or any part of the country.The family also declared that the group is not part of
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The outgoing governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje, will perform the official handing over of the affairs of the state to the governor-elect, Abba Yusuf May 28.A statement by the outgoing commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Muhammad Garba, stated that the event is billed for 9:00pm on Sunday, May
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Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, popularly known as Aisha Binani, has joined the growing list of Nigerians venturing into the aviation business, the Will reports.The former governorship aspirant in Adamawa State, who is a close friend of the outgoing First lady, Aisha Buhari, has taken delivery of an Embraer aircraft with Binani
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My fellow Nigerian brothers, sisters and friends of Nigeria.2. I address you today, in my last assignment as a democratically elected President of our great and well-endowed nation, with a deep sense of gratitude to God, a great deal of appreciation to the Nigerian people and a modest sense of
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Ahead of the May 29 inauguration, Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church has said he will never call Bola Tinubu, his president.The cleric stated this during a webinar titled ‘Building the New Nigeria: The Role of the Diaspora’ organised by the PTB4Nigeria, a diaspora
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The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last election, Peter Obi, has urged his supporters and citizens in general to remain calm and law abiding, as only the court of law will decide the actual winner of the poll in due course.Obi who spoke on the sidelines
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