Uchechukwu Okoroafor, AbujaBack in August, the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, Abia State capital, dismissed the petition by the candidate of the Labour Party, Chief Frank Chinasa, seeking to nullify the election of the member representing Bende federal constituency and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives,
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Nigeria received a great relief Monday as a UK court set the country from its entanglement in an $11bn Judgement debt earlier awarded in favour of Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) Limited.In a judgement delivered by Justice Robin Knowles of the Commercial Courts of England and Wales,,in the case between
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President Bola Tinubu affirmed on Monday that the Student Loan Scheme he approved on June 12, 2023, would go live in January 2024.He also promised that episodes of industrial action by academic staff unions of tertiary institutions would become a thing of the past.“By January 2024, the new Student Loan
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The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in the Feb. 25, election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, seeking to dismiss and set aside the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC).The court similarly reserved judgment in the appeal
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In a bid to restore investor confidence in the country’s FX reforms, President Bola Tinubu has committed to addressing the existing foreign exchange futures contract backlog.Speaking at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) conference in Abuja, President Tinubu declared that "all future foreign exchange contracts will be honoured by this
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The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) said it is working on new strategies for optimum implementation of the Employee Compensation Scheme (ECS).The initiative was made known by the NSITF managing director, Maureen Allagoa, at the fund's Regional Management Performance Review (MPR), where she said that the fund remains focused
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The Lagos State Government has closed down Alaba International Market.The Commissioner for Environment, Tokunbo Wahab, who confirmed the development, said the market was closed down due to poor waste disposal practices, among others.“Alaba International Market, Ojo, has been sealed up for poor waste disposal practices, failure to pay their waste
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The principal of Federal Government College Maiduguri, Malam Umar Habeeb Jibril, has disclosed that the recent hike in school fees at Unity colleges in the country has affected students' chances of enrolling in the school.The principal said despite the 200 carrying capacity for admission into the school in the last
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Vice President Kashim Shettima will deliver a keynote speech at the World Food Prize Foundation’s Norman Borlaug International Dialogue in the USA on Tuesday.Mr. Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Communications, Office of the Vice President, made this known in a statement on Monday.According to Nkwocha,
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Benue State has been selected among the 19 Northern States to benefit from the $700 million World Bank-assisted project for Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) to address the challenges of land degradation and climate change on a multi-dimensional scale.The project coordinator, Victor Ama, who disclosed this during the inauguration
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