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Carter Center, NCD Alliance partner WHO on health issues
The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday welcomed the Carter Center, Inc. and the NCD Alliance into official relations. The new status, to be ratified at the World Health Assembly in May, enables partner organizations to engage more directly with WHO processes; they may participate at sessions of WHO governing bodies, propose agenda items and organize…
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Dakar Financing Summit: $160bn worth of infrastructure projects for Africa
The 2nd Dakar Financing summit for Africa’s Infrastructure Development has opened in the Senegalese capital with 69 infrastructure projects worth $160 billion on showcase. African heads of government, the African Development Bank, development finance institutions, and institutional investors will gather to draw the modalities for pushing the projects to completion by 2030. The African Union Development Agency and the Government…
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Banditry: APC converts campaign rally to prayer session, promises end to criminality
PDP sowed the seed of current woes – MasariRemain steadfast, don’t despair –Buhari The presidential campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State on Monday was scaled down to a prayer session over a recent murder of over 40 vigilantes in Bakori Local Government Area of the state by bandits. Apart from scaling down the number of…
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Forty-six years and counting, By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu
Forty-six years ago, on the 1st of February, 1977, at just 16 years and 4 months old, I resumed work at Radio Nigeria as a studio manager (Trainee). I was one of the youngest people ever to be recruited by the defunct Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), Radio Nigeria. The late Hannatu Ibrahim was the Head of Programs, Northern Nigeria, and…
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PHOTO NEWS: FIRS, LIRS sign MoU in Lagos
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Lagos State Inland Revenue Service (LIRS) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Lagos. FIRS Chairman, Muhammad Nami signed on behalf of the FIRS, while LIRS Chairman, Ayodele Subair signed on behalf of the LIRS. Among those present at the MoU signing at Lagos House, Marina were Lagos State Governor Babajide…
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The Hater of Nigeria: A rebuttal of Sonala Olumense’s article, By Bayo Onanuga
Coming in the countdown to the 2023 general elections, Sonala Olumense’s two-part article leaves no one in doubt of his mission to dissuade Nigerians from voting for the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming elections. Unfortunately, his spin is based on naive idealism, crass ignorance and pretentious partisanship that leaves all but one party on his self-made ballot. Let us…
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From Nekede , another warning to the untaught girls on social media, By Akin Olaniyan
Most Nigerians accept that we play too much, making a joke out of almost everything, the comical explanation being that you must do this to survive in a ‘terrible’ place like Nigeria. I get the point about the therapeutic importance of approaching serious issues lightheartedly. However, I struggle to understand what is comical when the issues involved are of grave…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court declares Lawan APC Yobe North candidate, as Machina loses out
The Supreme Court has ruled that Senate President Ahmed Lawan, is the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Yobe North. In a majority judgment delivered on Monday, the apex court upheld the appeal filed by the APC against Bashir Machina’s candidature. Details later…
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Osinbajo says late Dutse Emir, Dame Adebutu’s lives exemplary
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the late Emir of Dutse, HRH Dr. Nuhu Muhammad-Sanusi, as a great Nigerian who believed in the country, served his people and humanity very well. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Saturday in Dutse, Jigawa State, when he paid a condolence visit to the Emir’s palace and to the family of the late monarch, who…
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Nigerian footballer dies in Spain
A Nigerian footballer Ado Bala Hadi who plays for CD Madridejos in the Spanish Terceira division collapsed and died during his side’s home match against SP Cabanillas on Sunday. According to The Nation, Castilla-La Mancha Football Federation released a statement confirming Hadi’s death. The statement said Hadi reportedly collapsed ‘for no apparent reasons’ in the 39th minute of the ill-fated…
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