President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday launched a $250 million lithium factory in Nasarawa State as part of the federal government’s efforts to meet the battery and energy demands of Nigerians.Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Ganfeng Lithium Industry Limited Factory in the Endo community of Udege in the Nasarawa
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The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, has petitioned the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) over a report on Tinubu’s certificate.Recall that the BBC report, titled “Bola Tinubu diploma: No evidence Nigeria’s president forged college record”, analyzed the controversy surrounding the certificate President Bola
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President Bola Tinubu has appointed Ola Olukoyede as the new chairman to lead the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).Ola Olukoyede is a thorough-bred lawyer with over twenty-two (22) years of experience at the Bar, as well as a regulatory compliance consultant, who specializes in compliance management, corporate intelligence, and
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced the restoration of the 43 items which were banned from accessing foreign exchange (FX).The announcement was made in a statement signed by Isa AbdulMumin, director of corporate communications, on Thursday."Importers of all 43 items previously restricted by the 2015 Circular referenced TED/FEM/FPC/GEN/01/010
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The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee will confer the title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria on 58 legal practitioners out of the 69 shortlisted applicants.The reports showed that most of the disqualified applicants were those in academia.12 professors were shortlisted in the category, but only Prof. Babatunde Oni would be conferred
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Senator Ifeanyi Ubah representing Anambra South Senatorial District has dumped the Young Progressives Party (YPP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).According to a letter read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio during a brief plenary session on Thursday, Ubah’s defection was due to irreconcilable differences in the YPP.Ubah, however, did not
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Nigeria has deposited its instrument of ratification for the African Union (AU) Convention on cross-border cooperation.The director-general of the National Boundary Commission (NBC), Mr. Adamu Adaji, made this known in a statement signed by the commission’s head of information, Mrs. Efe Ovuakporie, in Abuja yesterday.Adaji, who said that the instrument
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About 60 million Nigerians are having mental-related issues, medical director of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Aishatu Armiya'u has said.According to her, child abuse and broken marriages are behind the rising cases of mental health.She stated this at an inter-school debate and quiz competition organised to mark 2023 World Mental
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A former speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara and the vice chancellor of University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), Prof AbdulRasheed Na’ Allah and others have mentored students from selected schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to become good future leaders.The mentorship programme was organised by the University
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To encourage academic excellence, the Edo State House of Assembly has honored 15-year-old Master Ajagun Ovoita Gold from Ososo in Akoko-Edo local government area, who scored 335 in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and obtained eight A1s in the recently released West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).While
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