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PHOTO NEWS: Shettima inaugurates Arewa women for Tinubu
All Progressives Congress Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima on Thursday inaugurated the Executive Committee of the Arewa Women for Tinubu in Abuja. The Women group is made up of top women in business and politics from Northern Nigeria who are committed to mobilising women across the Northern region to vote for the Tinubu and Shettima in the coming presidential…
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BBC Yoruba and the limits of media propaganda, By Ismail Omipidan
As a trained journalist, I hardly take on colleagues who genuinely make mistakes in the course of discharging their responsibilities. But when the mistake is repeated more than twice, it means a pattern is emerging and the earlier one deals with such a matter the better for the reading public. As a human being, and a member of the Nigerian…
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Police bust fake CAC registration centre in Lagos
Men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have busted a fake Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Lagos State. Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Benjamin Hundeyin in a statement, said the fake centre located at Jobi Fele Way, Alausa Business District, Alausa, Ikeja was busted after “a tip-off, painstaking background check and verification”. Five suspects manning the center were…
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JAMB adopts cut-off marks for 2022 UTME
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has adopted 140 as the minimum cut-off mark for degree awarding institutions for the 2022 admission process. The minimum cut-off marks for polytechnics is 100 while colleges of education is 100. This was made known at the ongoing Policy Meeting on Admissions presided by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, in Abuja on…
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NBTE Accreditation: Gov Ikpeazu sacks Abia poly council, suspends management
The Abia State government has announced the immediate dissolution of the governing council of Abia State Polytechnic and suspension of the institution’s management. Chris Ezem, the Secretary to the State Government, said this in a statement on Thursday in Umuahia. Mr Ezem said the move was to reposition the polytechnic, whose accreditation was withdrawn by the National Board for Technical…
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Ignore Adeleke ‘s fake lamentations, Osun Govt tells citizens
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo Osun State government has described as untrue, the claim by the Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that officials have been diverting or looting government assets and property. The state government further accused the PDP of peddling lies and propaganda just to curry underserved public sympathy, insisting that Governor Adegboyega Oyetola does…
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CAN and its cassock, By Kunle Awosiyan
Some pastors visited my facebook wall yesterday to protest against my post on Christian Clerics who attended the unveiling of Senator Kashim Shettima, the running mate of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. What they saw was the clerics’ manner of dressing and straight away they condemned the men and women in the pictures. ‘They are fake, they are…
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Sanwo-Olu promises best hospitality, as world converges on Lagos for cultural, tourism fairs
…governor receives Information Minister, Lai Mohammed Lagos State is set to become the global epicentre for culture and tourism exhibition in November, as Nigeria hosts the maiden United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Global Conference on Tourism, Culture and the Creative Industries. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu promised the State would be extending its warmest hospitality to visitors that will be attending…
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Federation Account to experience revenue drop over PIA – RMAFC
The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMFAC) says revenue accruable to the Federal Account will drop due to the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021. This was contained in a report RMAFC presented to oil and financial stakeholders at a retreat in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Wednesday. “The Petroleum Industry Act 2021 is a bold attempt to…
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Akeredolu orders dismissal of workers over payroll fraud
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has directed that workers found to be receiving double salaries from the state payroll be dismissed The governor gave the directive when he received the report of the Committee for Verification, Scrutinization and Clean-up of the State Payroll in his office in Akure. The committee, led by the Chairman and former Permanent Secretary of the…
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