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Our investment in security yielding results, Buhari tells investors in New York
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday expressed delight that investments in improving security are yielding good dividends, lauding the Nigerian military for making significant progress in the fight against insecurity and building the momentum in reducing challenges to its barest minimum.Speaking at the Nigeria International Economic Partnership Forum held on the margins of the 77th UN General Assembly in New York,…
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PHOTO NEWS: Pentecostal Bishop Forum of Northern Nigeria visits Tinubu
The Pentecostal Bishop Forum of Northern Nigeria visited the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the APC Presidential Campaign Office in Abuja on Thursday. The Northern Bishops were led by the Forum’s Chairman, Arch Bishop John Praise Daniel. Others in the delegation were Vice Chairman, Bishop Jonas Katung and Bishop Peter Ogunmuyiwa.
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The last dance at UNGA
“This is the last that we shall dance together,” Wole Soyinka wrote in Kongi’s Harvest. And that was what President Muhammadu Buhari did Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States of America. The President had his last dance, and how dainty and dignified were the steps. He didn’t do the one Lagbaja described as ‘hands…
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Olojo and why we need to take care of our mother, By Dare Babarinsa
On Saturday, September 24, Kabiyesi Oba Adeyeye Eniitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife, will play host to thousands of people joining him to celebrate this year’s Olojo Festival. The Festival is set aside in Ile-Ife to commemorate the day of creation. It is the most important festival in Ife calendar when the Ooni wears the sacred Aare crown…
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Globacom seeks collaboration with Oyo government on education
A Nigerian multinational telecommunications company, Globacom, has expressed its readiness to collaborate with the Oyo State government, to create robust technology-based education systems. Speaking at the Office of the Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Ibadan, Globacom’s Regional Head, Public Sector Enterprise, Southwest, Mr. Adewale Adiatu, stressed the importance of quality education and how it can help solve societal…
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Tinubu sympathises with Atiku over death of aide, Abdullahi Nyako
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, has sent sympathy and condolence messages to his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar over the sudden death of his close aide, Barrister Abdullahi Mohammed Nyako. Nyako is the Waziri of Kojoli, Yelli District of Jada Local Government Area of Adamawa State. He died…
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Ondo tackles Ogun State over communities in riverine areas
The Ondo State Government has tackled neighbouring Ogun State over control of some riverine communities in the state. The Ondo government in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation Bamidele Ademola-Olateju was responding to a statement by the Ogun State government, laying claim to the said communities. Ademola-Olateju in the statement, said the communities were never in dispute…
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AfDB to accelerate roll-out of country projects in Mali to tackle poverty
The government of Mali and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have agreed to accelerate ongoing country projects that aim to reduce poverty, following a high-level Bank Group mission, which ended on 16 September 2022. A delegation of Bank staff and the Malian government met over one week to jointly review the performance of the entire active country portfolio of projects…
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Buhari calls for better Afro-Arab cooperation to resolve issues of mutual interest
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday called on African countries and their Arab partners to work hard and be more united to realise common objectives. Speaking at a bilateral meeting with the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, in New York, President Buhari said the actualisation of the UN resolution which proposed a Two-State solution to the crisis between Israel and Palestine required…
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Iran unrest: Women burn headscarves at anti-hijab protests
Women have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws. Crowds cheered when women burned their hijabs on a bonfire in Sari on Tuesday, the fifth successive day of unrest. Activists said a woman was among three protesters shot dead by security forces in Urmia,…
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