Nollywood actress turned politician Tonto Dikeh has opened up about the reason she joined the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).The 37-year-old, who was unveiled by the APC national women leader, Mary Alile and the deputy national public secretary, Duro Mesdeko, at the party’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday
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The governor of Niger State, Mohammed Umar Bago, has declared that the state is too endowed with natural and human resources to be poor, promising that his administration is poised to harness the potentials of the state.Bago vowed to rid the state of insecurity and create a conducive environment for
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The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) has announced plans to shut down both national and state assemblies tomorrow if their demands for financial autonomy for the state assemblies remain unmet at the end of the seven-day ultimatum issued.The union is demanding immediate implementation of financial autonomy from the governors
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Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has refuted claims that he labelled the 2023 elections as compromised. Jega said he never made such a statement in any forum.The former INEC helmsman was reported to have alleged that the 2023 elections were compromised at a
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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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