Edo State Governor-elect, Monday Okpebholo, has announced the appointment of Fred Odianosen Itua as his Chief Press Secretary (CPS).According to a statement on Monday, the appointment, the first of Okpebholo’s incoming administration, will take effect on November 12.Itua was the assistant political editor at The Sun Newspapers.He also previously worked
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In a bid to ensure timely declaration of liquidation dividends to uninsured depositors of the failed Heritage Bank (In-Liquidation), the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has commenced process for the auction of landed property and chattels of the failed bank.According to Bashir Nuhu, NDIC’s Director of Communication and Public Affairs
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said they have apprehended two major cross-border drug trafficking syndicates and confiscated their consignment of cocaine and opioids worth billions of naira.They added that six suspected leaders of the cartels were arrested in different parts of the country, according to a statement by
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The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has bemoaned the conduct of some judges in the country.She lamented that the conduct of some judges is giving the judicial arm of government a bad name.Mrs Kekere-Ekun stated this at a public discourse on: ‘Ethics, Morality, and The Law,’ organized by
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The late Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, would be laid to rest in Abuja on Friday.His immediate elder brother, Moshood Lagbaja, made this known in Osogbo, Osun State, during a condolence visit by St. Charles Grammar School Osogbo Old Boys Association, SCOBA.According to him, the military
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By Tony Ugwuanyi, NsukkaMay 29, 2023, would be remembered in annals of Enugu history as a day another important prophecy was fulfilled: the birth of a new Enugu, the coming of a ‘messiah’ to the throne.Barr. Dr. Peter Ndubisi Mbah, an International Maritime Lawyer, Business Magnate, Public Administrator and Philanthropist,
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Three oil marketers have told a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, that the alleged planned monopoly of the energy sector by Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals will spell doom for the country’s oil sector.According to them, the plan to monopolise the oil sector by Dangote is a recipe for
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The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, on Thursday announced free cesarean sections for Nigerian women.Pate said this at the ongoing three-day Nigeria Health Sector-Wide Joint Annual Review in Abuja, when he launched the “Maternal Mortality Reduction Innovation Initiative.”The initiative is an ambitious commitment to reducing
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The Federal Government has revealed plans to provide Nigerians with at least 20 hours of daily electricity by 2027.However, it has conditioned this target on sufficient investment in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector, which it has said is currently far below expectations.The Special Adviser to the President on Energy, Olu
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the death of Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, Chief of the Army Staff.Lagbaja died at age 56.According to a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, he passed away on Tuesday night in Lagos after a period
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