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Brugge striker Dennis joins Watford

Club Brugge forward Emmanuel Dennis has joined Watford, the newly promoted Premier League club has announced. The 23-year-old Nigerian spent part of last season on loan at Bundesliga club FC Koln,...

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Bandits/herdsmen farm occupation: Insecurity grounds CBN borrowers, farmers...

I was kidnapped for a month, my crop destroyed, I don’t know how to pay CBN loan – Farmer We can’t support farmers with uninsured ABP loans, says Federal Ministry of Agriculture There are indications...

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Akwa Ibom health workers protest alleged salary slash

Medical interns comprising pharmacists and laboratory scientists working at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom State, on Tuesday protested against the decision of the hospital...

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‘Charmed’ Inspector arrested for gunrunning, 24 suspects paraded in C’River

Medical interns comprising pharmacists and laboratory scientists working at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom State, on Tuesday protested against the decision of the hospital...

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NPC, NBC bills not to moderate but criminalise journalism – NGE

The Nigerian Guild of Editors said on Tuesday that the Nigerian media was not a political opponent or enemy of the Federal Government. According to the NGE, many of the attacks on the media by...

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Deconstructing the Presidency’s mind on national issues

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, last week issued a statement condemning the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party governors’ position on some...

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Pakistan seeks to gag media, yet again

The military-backed government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is bringing a law to establish an omnibus body to monitor all media platforms in Pakistan, including and digital platforms, television and...

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Cleaners battle flooding as N’Assembly building roof leaks

 Cleaners hired by a facility firm to maintain the White House complex of the National Assembly had hectic time scooping water from on the floor of the federal Parliament on Tuesday. Federal lawmakers,...

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South-East govs can’t decide actualisation of Biafra – IPOB

Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki THE Indigenous People of Biafra has said the governors of the South-East geo-political zone lacked the locus standi to decide for the people of the region on issues concerning...

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Kano uncovers 3,268 govt teachers in private schools

THE Kano State Government has discovered 3,268 teachers that are on its payroll but posted to private, voluntary and community schools in the state. The Public Relations Officer in the Ministry of...

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S’South COVID-19 meeting ends abruptly, Edo blames agency

THE Kano State Government has discovered 3,268 teachers that are on its payroll but posted to private, voluntary and community schools in the state. The Public Relations Officer in the Ministry of...

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SFU police assaulted our VC over invitation letter – FUOYE

SFU police assaulted our VC over invitation letter – FUOYE Read More

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Police didn’t beat PUNCHman, says Imo

THE Imo State Government on Tuesday denied reports that a correspondent of The PUNCH, Chidiebube Okeoma, was brutalised by security operatives from the governor’s office for covering a protest by a...

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Pay Rivers, A’Ibom $3bn from recovered $62bn, court tells FG

THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Federal Government to pay $3bn to Rivers and Akwa Ibom States as their share from proceeds of crude oil sale. The court ordered the said...

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Ayade appoints APC chieftain, two others as aides

THE Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, has appointed a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Cletus Obun, as Special Adviser, Strategic Communications. Obun was a member of the Cross River...

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Bayelsa denies plan to scrap 32 development areas

DEPUTY Governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has denied speculations that the Governor Douye Diri-led administration was planning to scrap the 32 Rural Development Authorities in the state....

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FG disobeys own law, flouts workers pension remittance

121,543 retirees have less than N550,000 in their RSA balance, says PenCom Payment shortfall, inflation, double stroke for workers – Ex-TUC president, Esele Seven years after the Federal Government...

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Ogun APC members protest imposition of LG polls candidate

SEVERAL members of the All Progressives Congress in Abeokuta-North Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Tuesday, staged a protest over the alleged imposition of Adebayo Ayorinde as the chairmanship...

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Buhari will complete tenure despite call for removal –Ojudu

The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, on Tuesday said despite the increasing calls for the resignation of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), he...

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Suits challenging Oshiomhole-led APC NWC dissolution dismissed

THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has struck out two suits challenging the dissolution of the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress. Delivering the...

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