President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday, May 19, inaugurate the Presidential/VIP Wing of State House Medical Centre, Abuja.“Following the ribbon-cutting ceremony, President Buhari, accompanied by the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Tijjani Umar, will embark on a guided tour of the hospital,” a statement signed by the State House
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, on Wednesday, said the All Progressives Congress would have succeeded in moving Nigeria forward if it had chosen Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as its candidate.Obi said this while exchanging pleasantries with some guests at Dele Momodu’s
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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed condolences on the loss of lives of two U.S. embassy officials and two Nigerian policemen accompanying them in an attack by gunmen in Anambra.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the affected persons were on official duty in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the
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Wema Bank has announced the launch of its flagship capacity- building programme for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria – the Wema SME Business School 5.0.The programme, according to Arthur Nkemeh, Head of SME Banking at Wema Bank, is aimed at equipping SME business owners and entrepreneurs in Nigeria
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The White House has confirmed that no US citizen was involved in the attack on the officials of the United States Embassy in Anambra State on Tuesday.Reports said there was an attack in Anambra State late Tuesday that claimed the lives of four staff members from the US Embassy in
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A Federal High Court in Warri, Delta State, has restrained the Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Lauretta Onochie, from exercising executive powers in the day-to-day running of the Commission.The court, in a judgment delivered on May 9, consequently barred Onochie from further exercising any
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The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC were locked in an argument at the presidential Election petition court, PEPC over the alleged refusal of the latter to release the necessary documents to the former.The respondents in the petition marked CA/PEPC/PC/03/2023 are
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President-elect Bola Tinubu reportedly extended ministerial position options to former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, during their meeting on Tuesday in France.The purpose of the meeting, held in Paris, was to strengthen ties and seek support from Kwankwaso and former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.Sources familiar with the
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In a courtroom drama at the Presidential Election Petitions Court in Abuja on Wednesday, the names put forward as representatives of the Labour Party were dismissed by the court.During Wednesday’s proceedings, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, stood up to announce his appearance as the first petitioner.
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by Uchechukwu Okoroafor, AbujaWhat could have become an untidy affair was sanitized by the President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) when the party leadership decided to zone the key leadership positions ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly.The
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