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US Senate Republicans block Ukraine, Israel aid bill over border dispute
An emergency spending bill to provide billions of dollars in new security assistance for Ukraine and Israel was blocked in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as Republicans pressed their demands for tougher measures to control immigration at the U.S. border with Mexico. The vote was 49 in favor to 51 against, leaving the $110.5 billion measure short of the 60…
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Osimhen, Oshoala make final shortlist for CAF best players’ awards
Nigeria’s duo of Victor Osimhen and Asisat Oshoala have both made the final three shortlist for the African Player of the Year in the men and women categories respectively. CAF released the final shortlist on Thursday for the event slated for Thursday in Marrakech, Morocco. Osimhen will slug it out with Egypt and Liverpool striker, Mohammed Salah and Morocco and…
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COP 28: ECN seals tripartite deal with Niger State, Global Wind Energy Council
The Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) has signed a tripartite agreement with an energy consulting group, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the Niger State Government on wind energy development in Niger State. The collaboration agreement which was facilitated by the Bridge Synergy, an international consultancy firm was signed by Governor Umar Bago, ECN Director-General, Dr Mustapha Abdulahi and…
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Sixty years after D.O Fagunwa: The Yoruba literati who made the world his classroom, By Diipo Fagunwa
Today, 7th December 2023 marks the diamond jubilee celebration for the Yorùbá world, its patrimony and progenies when lovers of Yorùbá literature shall be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the passing unto eternal glory of Chief Daniel Ọlọ́runfẹ́mi Fágúnwà, who until his death was a sage and icon of Yorùbá literature. You will all agree with me that 60 years…
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Edu calls for states disability commission, laws across Nigeria
Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu has called on state governments and state Houses of Assembly to establish and domesticate and fully implement disability laws across the country. The Minister made the call Wednesday when she declared open the 2023 International Day of Persons with Disabilities at the Sheu Yaradua Centre, Abuja. She also called for…
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Ex-NUPENG scribe Frank Kokori dies at 80
Former Secretary-General of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Chief Frank Kokori, is dead. Chief Kokori died in the early hours of Thursday at Mount Horeb Hospital, Warri, Delta State, where he had been hospitalized. He was aged 80 – which he also clocked on Thursday. He has been battling a kidney-related ailment for some months,…
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FG unveils Nigeria’s Values Charter 2024
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has constituted a committee to finalise Nigeria’s Values Charter to be unveiled by President Bola Tinubu early next year. This was disclosed on Wednesday by the Deputy Director of Press in the ministry, Mr Suleiman Haruna. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Nigeria’s Values Charter embodies a social contract…
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Kwara storms National Para Games with 132 contingents
Kwara State Sports Commission Para athletes are set to depart Ilorin on Thursday for the Second National Para Games billed to commence in Abuja between 8-14th December. While addressing the contingents today at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Commission, the Executive Chairman, Coach Bola Mogaji said Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq cared for people with disabilities which is evident in the…
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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy to leave Congress at the end of this year
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress and will leave at the end of this year, he announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday — a highly anticipated decision that comes two months after his unprecedented ouster from the speakership. McCarthy’s decision will narrow the House GOP’s already historically slim majority, which just last week got…
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NJC recommends 11 new Supreme Court judges
The National Judicial Council has recommended 11 Court of Appeal judges to be appointed as Supreme Court judges. This was contained in a statement by NJC’s Director of Information, Soji Oye, on Wednesday. According to him, the NJC took the decision at its 104th meeting chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola after considering the list of…
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