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Uzodimma embarks on statewide tour over security concerns
To restore confidence of the people in security and government apparatus to protect them, Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma on Tuesday embarked on statewide tour. The governor said the tour of 27 local governments across the state will also be used to inspect ongoing projects in each of the local government and drive grassroots development. In the last few weeks,…
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Lagos grants workers work-free days for PVC collection
Civil servants in Lagos State have been given work-free days to enable them collect their Permanent Voters Cards in their local government and Local Council Development Areas (LCDA) ahead of the general elections. This was contained in a circular issued by the Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola on Wednesday. The work-free days which is divided according to grade levels will…
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Police release handbook on operational guidelines for 2023 elections
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the distribution of more than a million copies of a handbook produced by the Nigeria Police Force on “Revised Standard Operational Guidelines/Rules for Police Officers and Other Law Enforcement Agents on Election Security Duties ahead of the 2023 general elections. The 36-page handbook contains a page for the details of…
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Ukraine’s interior ministry leadership killed in helicopter crash
The three main figures in Ukraine’s interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, 42, died alongside his first deputy minister and state secretary. Fourteen people died when the helicopter came down in Brovary around 08:30 local time (06:30 GMT), including one child, authorities…
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Church of England refuses to preside over same-sex marriages
The Church of England announced Wednesday that it will not allow same-sex couples to marry in its churches and that its teachings that marriage is between “one man and one woman for life” would not change. Same-sex couples, however, are welcome to the church to have their civil partnerships blessed, the church said in a statement that followed six years…
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Dissecting the Tinubu’s framework for power and energy reform, By Babatunde Raji Fashola
I have challenged people to ask themselves if they can remember anything the main opposition committed to, when they were elected in 1999 and for the 16 years they allowed Nigeria to drift without any clear policy direction or articulation. Other than slogans like “Transformation Agenda” whose details were undisclosed, during a period of prolific earnings from very elevated international…
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How I became bank CEO at 34, By Tony Elumelu
I had just become CEO of Standard Trust Bank and one of the youngest bank CEOs in Nigeria. It was a time of fast-paced change in our industry, and reform-minded policymakers had opened up paths for consolidation and strengthening our sector. Competition was intense – but youth was not a barrier. I owed my accelerated career and successes to two…
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Peter Obi running ethnic agenda with LP – Kwankwaso
Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has accused his counterpart in Labour Party, Peter Obi of running an ethnic agenda with his presidential race. Kwankwaso said this while answering questions at the Chatham House in the United Kingdom on Wednesday. He said while leaders are guilty of this, followers are also equally guilty of…
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Tunde Bakare’s tragic, unapostolic Ecclesiasticus, By Albus Dauda
Following his virtually hour-long tirade – an Ecclesiasticus, he seems to perceive it – concerning his interpretation of the Nigerian political climate, Pastor Tunde Bakare, a man whose words were once widely regarded as carrying the wisdom and anointing of God, now comes across as a pitiable figure. The anointing of God, it seems, he has sent on a hiatus,…
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Tinubu felicitates Emeka Anyaoku, international statesman, at 90
All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has sent a special congratulatory and goodwill message to former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Chief Anyaoku who served briefly as Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Shehu Shagari administration turns 90 on January 18, 2023. In his goodwill message to the international…
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