The Director of Special Projects of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Aisha Omar, said the ministry has recovered N57 billion from the N5.2 trillion owed by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).Omar disclosed this during the sensitization workshop on the Federal Government Debt Recovery Drive through the Project Lighthouse Programme for
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Gombe State has been thrown into total blackout since Monday as a result of an outage caused by a windstorm.Consequently, the residents now sleep under darkness and extreme heat.It was learned that the development has also affected communication, as residents complained of their phones being shut down due to their
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A total of 61 physically challenged candidates, including blind persons, sat for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), organised by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Enugu centre under the JAMB Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG) yesterday.Participants at the examination held at the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus
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President Bola Tinubu will on Tuesday depart Abuja for the Kingdom of the Netherlands on an official visit.According to a release issued on Monday by his Media Adviser, Ajuri Ngelale, Tinubu's visit is at the invitation of the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte. He is
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Former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).This was contained in a letter dated April 23, 2024 and addressed to the PDP chairman in Mbutu Ward, Aboh Mbaise local government area of Imo State.The letter reads:“Since 1998, I have contributed my
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Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has revealed that even though air transportation is not so functional in the state, he understands that the state has an airplane, but its whereabouts is still unknown. The governor made this known when he addressed the diaspora community at a Zoom meeting organised by the
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Dozens of lawyers yesterday stormed the Supreme Court to protest what they described as harassment and intimidation of former Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).Also, a hearing in the appeal filed by the EFCC against the judgement of the Kogi State High
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Rivers State House of Assembly has passed the Rivers State Local Government (Amendment) Bill into law by overriding the assent of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.The House, on March 13, 2024, passed the bill and forwarded same to Fubara for assent, which the governor declined.Section 100(5) of the 1999 Constitution of the
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After two months of being declared wanted and searched for, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), finally arrested three members of a criminal organisation which specialises in illicit drug trafficking across Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Europe and America.This followed the recent seizure of the single largest consignment
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Deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Benjamin Kalu, has described as reprehensible and repugnant the alleged murder of Abia-born businessman, Emmanuel Okocha by a police officer in Aba on Saturday.Kalu called for a thorough investigation into the unfortunate incident, insisting that the police officer must be made to
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