The Presidency on Sunday reacted to the raging controversies over its planned establishment of herders colonies across the country. In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, it said it “wishes to draw attention to recent unhelpful comments regarding the plan to stop roaming of […]
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… Continues from June 25, 2019 I made no move to leave the spot where I quietly lay. Apart from being exhausted, I feared that being an unfamiliar face, I could, if I came out, easily be mistaken for and treated as one of the hoodlums by members of the rescue party who, in this […]
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By Yinka Fabowale … Continues from June 24, 2019 Instantly, the inside of the bus became a bedlam as everyone scrambled to escape. The first few to get out ran into the bush, but were hotly pursued by the bandits who dragged them back dripping with blood from machete cuts and sword blows inflicted by […]
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By Yinka Fabowale Ago-Are! A wave of relief swept over me as the small town, the last and only some kilometres before Saki, my destination, popped into view as our bus tore through the major highway linking the nexus of other roads and dispersed communities in the Oke-Ogun region of Oyo State. My sense of […]
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The Federal Government has commenced the payment of N25 billion earned academic allowances of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to universities. Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, disclosed this to The Nation in an interview on Monday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The permanent secretary said the government has resolved […]
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US President Donald Trump has said he is imposing hard-hitting new sanctions on Iran, including on the office of the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He said the additional sanctions were in response to the shooting down of a US drone and “many other things”. Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s highest authority, was singled out because he […]
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The Court of Appeal Abuja division on Monday ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to respond within five days to the appeal filed against his qualification for the 2019 presidential election. The court also ordered the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to within five days respond to all issues raised on […]
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L-R, Member, Governing Board of Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Lamido Yuguda, Chairman, Mr Olufemi Lijadu, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Finance Alh Mahmood Isa-Dutse and Acting Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission Ms Mary Uduk during the Inauguration of the Governing Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Finance […]
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Nigeria’s Central Bank governor Mr Godwin Emefiele on Monday said the country’s economy remains fragile, about two years it exited a harsh economic recession. Emefiele, who resumed as the CBN governor for a second term at the beginning of June, said it still not all rosy for Africa’s most populous country. He made the comment […]
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A health worker checks the fever of travellers coming across South Sudan’s Nimule border town from Uganda on June 19, 2019, following recent deaths from Ebola in Uganda. – Uganda last week reported three cases of the haemorrhagic viral infection, two of them fatal, among people who had been to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo […]
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