Ogun State governor Prince Dapo Abiodun said filling stations for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) would be positioned on bus routes across the state.Governor Abiodun, in an interview with newsmen at the Arcade Ground of the Governor's Office after inspecting the first converted diesel/petrol buses to CNG, said the positioning of
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Plateau State government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of over 300 power plants as part of efforts to open up the state for industrialisation.The secretary to the state government (SSG) Samuel Jatau signed the MoU on behalf of the government while AVM Chollom Pam (rtd)
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Permanent secretary in the Borno State Ministry of Works, Engr Goni Lawan, has assured road users and motorists plying Maiduguri-Kano Road that the flyover under construction on the Borno Express Roundabout will be completed in October this year.Lawan, who said road users were cooperating with workers on the site, added
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern that a significant number of children in Bauchi State are unable to access their fundamental rights of reaching their full potential, thereby robbing them of their dreams and aspirations in life.The agency said quality education, especially at basic level, plays a vital
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A six-month-old baby, Chinedu Samson who was allegedly stolen at Kure Market, Minna was found abandoned at an erosion ditch, close to Gauraka Primary School at Gauraka in Tafa local government area of Niger State.The baby was allegedly taken away by a yet-to-be identified person from the mother's shop at
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Benue State governor, Hyacinth Alia has disclosed that 37,412 households have been displaced by the sustained herders’ attacks on farmers in the state.The governor who disclosed this during a visit by the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Dr Matthias Schmale also said a total population of 2,124,000
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Leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are currently at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to resume their meeting with the federal government negotiation team over the recent removal of petroleum subsidy.The meeting is taking place in the office of the Chief of Staff to
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The National Vice Chairman (North-west), Salihu Lukman, resigned on Wednesday.Mr Lukman announced his resignation in a letter addressed to the Acting National Chairman of the party, Abubakar Kyari.His resignation came the same day the APC chairpersons in the seven states of the North-west zone endorsed a former governor of Kano
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President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, in Abuja appealed to the organised labour to avail him more time to consider their grievances before embarking on any nationwide strike.This is just as indication emerged that the Federal Government may enforce the court order restraining the organised labour from embarking on a strike
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The Senate on Wednesday rejected the use of political solution approach in handling the case of Nnamdi Kanu, the acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).UNITY TIMES reports that the upper chamber, which resolved to condemn the “sit at home” in totality as well as the nefarious
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