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Sanwo-Olu inaugurates 1.4km Agege Flyover

Sanwo-Olu inaugurates 1.4km Agege Flyover

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday inaugurated the 1.4km Dual Carriageway Flyover Bridge in Pen Cinema Junction, Agege. Speaking at the inauguration, Sanwo-Olu said that the flyover would reduce travel time and save man-hour that would have been otherwise lost to traffic on the road. He said it would provide better riding surface,...

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Pictorial: Buhari decorates new service chiefs, promises support

Pictorial: Buhari decorates new service chiefs, promises support

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has today decorated the newly appointed service chiefs. The event which took place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja happened days after the appointment of the service chiefs was confirmed by the National Assembly. READ ALSO You have few weeks to perform, Buhari tells new service chiefs Those...

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You have few weeks to perform, Buhari tells new service chiefs

You have few weeks to perform, Buhari tells new service chiefs

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday, told the nation’s new service chiefs that they only a few weeks to secure the country. Buhari said he expected that before the rainy season, they would have secured the country to the level that farmers who had fled their farms in different parts of Nigeria...

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Jonathan, Obasanjo, six other ex-Presidents inaugurate Elders Forum to promote democracy, good governance in West Africa

Jonathan, Obasanjo, six other ex-Presidents inaugurate Elders Forum to promote democracy, good governance in West Africa

Former Presidents Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and six other former West African leaders on Thursday joined forces to establish a mechanism targeted at preventing and resolving election related conflicts and maintaining stability in the sub-region. The leaders resolved to collectively exert their enormous goodwill towards ensuring peace in West African nations, by...

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PFN honours Osinbajo, Ugwuanyi with ‘Defender of the Faith’ awards

PFN honours Osinbajo, Ugwuanyi with ‘Defender of the Faith’ awards

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), yesterday, at the opening ceremony of its two-day 16th Biennial Conference in Enugu, conferred Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State with the ‘Grand Defender of the Faith’ and ‘Defender of the Faith’ awards, respectively. Speaking at the occasion, the newly elected National President of...

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EFCC re-looted 222 assets recovered from Maina.

EFCC re-looted 222 assets recovered from Maina.

A witness, Ngozika Ihuoma, on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, under its former acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, mismanaged 222 assets worth N1.63tn. The money was recovered by the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team. Ihuoma appeared as the first defence witness in the ongoing trial of...

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Senate queries 55 vehicles allegedly missing from federal ministry

Senate queries 55 vehicles allegedly missing from federal ministry

THE Senate Public Accounts Committee, on Thursday, queried the Ministry of Environment over 55 vehicles allegedly missing from its coffers. The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Mathew Urhoghide, relied on the 2018 Auditor General’s report to take the decision. The AuGF report read in part, “Audit observed that 55 vehicles were not presented for physical...

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Gridlock persists as trucks return to Apapa roads

Gridlock persists as trucks return to Apapa roads

Sanity is yet to return to the Apapa corridor, as fuel tankers and containerised vehicles have resumed indiscriminate parking along the road. This is coming barely four days after the Nigerian Ports Authority had on Saturday inaugurated a new call-up system designed to permanently address the movement of trailers in and out of the ports....

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If coup plotters are pardoned, why not bandits – Gumi

If coup plotters are pardoned, why not bandits – Gumi

Renowned northern Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, said if government could pardon coup plotters that committed treasonable felony, there was nothing wrong extending the same gesture to bandits. The Islamic cleric, while responding to the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kaduna on Thursday, said there was need to forgive bandits for the country to have...

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EFCC re-looted 222 assets recovered from Maina, others ― Witness

EFCC re-looted 222 assets recovered from Maina, others ― Witness

A witness, Ngozika Ihuoma, on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, under its former acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, mismanaged 222 assets worth N1.63tn. The money was recovered by the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team. Ihuoma appeared as the first defence witness in the ongoing trial of...