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Bayelsa Youths Threaten To Shut Down Conoil over Sangana Killings

Members of the Bayelsa Youths Association have asked the federal and state governments to investigate the alleged killing of four protesters by security operatives attached to Conoil offshore facility in Sangana Kingdom of Brass local government area of the state.Some aggrieved indigenes of Sangana had staged a peaceful protest against

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Obi, LP Did Not Rig 2023 Presidential Poll in Anambra or elsewhere, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has exonerated the Labour Party (LP), its candidate, Mr Peter Obi from indulging in any form of rigging in the election.Atiku and PDP made the assertion before Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-man Presidential Election Petition

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National Assembly passes bill to punish sexual offenders in tertiary institutions

The National Assembly has passed a bill to make comprehensive provisions for the prohibition and punishment of sexual harassment by educators in tertiary institutions.Recall that the Senate passed this bill in 2020 while the House of Representatives passed theirs but with different provisions.But, the Chairman Senate Committee on Judiciary, Senator

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10th NASS: Tinubu Insists on APC Choices of Presiding officers

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reassured elected members of the incoming 10th National Assembly that his administration remains firm on the choices of candidates for presiding officers’ position made by the leadership of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).The President stated this on Wednesday night when he met with Senators-elect

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Lagos belongs to Yorubas; we will pass laws to protect interest of indigenes-Speaker Obasa

There are plans underway by the Lagos State House of Assembly to make promulgation that will potentially undermine land and property ownership by non-indigenes, especially Igbos in the state, following a declaration by its speaker Mudashiru Obasa to “reverse all the reversible.” “Lagos is a Yoruba land as against the assertions

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