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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
he release of innocent Nigerian detainee Zainab Aliyu from detention in Saudi Arabia was completed on Tuesday, after which the Maitama Sule University, Kano student posed with Nigerian officials before the cameras, as captured above. The picture was taken in Jeddah, a Saudi Arabian port city and modern commercial hub and gateway for pilgrimages to […]
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Budget, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
Fred Itua, Abuja The Senate has passed an N8.916 trillion 2019 budget. It was passed after a thorough debate and deliberation by lawmakers. President Muhammadu Buhari submitted the budget on the 19th of December, 2018. With the passage, the President is expected to assent to the Bill any time soon . -Sun wp_posts
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Latest Politics, National Politics, Party Politics, South-East, Top Stories
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Magnus Eze, Enugu Former governor of Abia state and senator-elect, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has flayed some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for frustrating the efforts of committed party members in the zone during the just-concluded elections. This was as Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, and his Labour and Employment counterpart, […]
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Corruption Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of an FCT High Court, on Monday, fixed June 11 for trial to begin for former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and Amb. Bashir Yuguda, in the alleged misappropriation of N19. 4 billion arms funds. The EFCC charged Dasuki, Yuguda alongside former Governor of Sokoto State Attahiru Bafarawa, his […]
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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Latest Politics
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Omodele Adigun, Uche Usim and Chinwendu Obienyi In a bid to increase access to financial services for the nation’s economically active poor, enhance job creation and reduce poverty, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that it will be targeting an increase in total micro-credits to at least 20 per cent by 2020. This was even as it […]
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Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Latest Politics
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Samson Ayokunle, has urged the Federal Government to release the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and former National Security Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). Ayokunle, who is the president of Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC), also enjoined government to ensure the release […]
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Africa & World Politics, Canadian Politics, Headlines
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Joseph Inokotong, with agency report, Abuja At a period many African countries are experiencing financial crunch partly due to their inability to look inwards for alternative sources of income, the government of Uganda is smiling to the bank in marijuana transactions with Canada and Germany. Though it is still illegal to use marijuana in Uganda, the government, in […]
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General Politics, National Politics, South-East, Top Stories
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Magnus Eze, Enugu, Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja National president of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhaji Bello Bodejo, has come under attacks over comment that the north will retain the presidency beyond 2023. Bodejo who spoke at the weekend categorically told southerners, particularly the South East and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, believed to be jostling to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari to forget […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet tomorrow in the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok to discuss the international standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear program, a Kremlin official said. The visit is part of Kim’s effort to build foreign support after the breakdown of a second United States-North Korea summit in […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
The Islamic State group yesterday said it was behind a devastating string of suicide attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 320 people on Easter Sunday. The claim emerged more than 48 hours after the near-simultaneous blasts tore through three high-end hotels popular with foreigners and three churches packed with Christians […]
