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BREAKING: Pro-Wike lawmakers shutdown all State expenditures by Fubara
The Martin Amaewhule-led House of Assembly has shut down all expenditures of the Rivers State governor until Governor Siminalayi Fubara presents his budget before the House. This follows a seven-day ultimatum the lawmakers gave the governor to present his budget before the House. The Leader of the House Major Jack raised the motion informing the House about the expiration of…
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Rivers: Uncertainty as 7-Day budget re-presentation ultimatum ends
Uncertainty has gripped the political landscape in Rivers State, as the seven-day ultimatum by the Martin Amaewhule-led House of Assembly for Governor Siminalayi Fubara to resubmit the 2024 budget reaches its deadline this week. The ultimatum, issued on July 8, will expire on Monday if weekends are counted, or on Wednesday if they are excluded. The Assembly’s order came after…
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PDP wins all 25 local government chairmanship seats in Delta
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have won all 25 local government chairmanship seats in the election conducted on Saturday, July 13th 2024. The Chairman of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, Jerry Agbaike, on Sunday, said one of PDP candidate was returned unopposed. PDP candidates contested against other parties and emerged winners in the 24 local government areas where the elections…
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LASG insists on banning danfo, korope along Lekki-Epe expressway
By Adeola Ogunrinde The Lagos State Government has said it would ban the operations of unregulated commercial buses along the Lekkki-Epe corridor. Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on transportation, Sola Giwa, made this known on Sunday. He said the reminder was to dismiss rumours that the move had been suspended. Giwa stated that there was a stakeholders’ meeting with…
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Kidnapped journalists: Information minister receives freed victims, salutes NSA, others
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has welcomed the release of two-Kaduna based journalists who were abducted from their homes in the outskirts of Kaduna last weekend. Speaking when he received the two journalists, AbdulGafar Alabelewe of The Nation newspapers and AbdulRaheem Aodu of Blueprint newspapers, from the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the…
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65% of uncultivated arable land in Africa enough to feed 9.5bn people by 2050- Adesina
The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, has said Africa had 65 percent of the uncultivated arable land left in the world to feed 9.5 billion people by 2050. Adesina stated that what Africa does with agriculture will determine the future of food in the world. “Essentially, food is money. The size of the food and agriculture…
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Tinubu greets Thisday Publisher, Obaigbena at 65
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Prince Nduka Obaigbena on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Obaigbena is the Chairman and Editor-In-Chief of Thisday Newspaper, Arise Magazine and the Ariss News Channel. A statement issued by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Tinubu, Ajuri Ngelale, said the President notes the enterprising spirit of Obaigbena. “President Tinubu notes the…
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Lagos Police arrests officer linked to rape inside police station
Following public outcry, the Lagos Police Command has arrested an officer identified as Owolabi who was linked to the rape of a 17-year-old girl inside the police station in Ojota axis of the state. Th police officer had been on the run after parents of the victims turned down all appeals from his family and relatives not to press for…
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Gunman shoots spectator during Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania
Donald Trump says he has been shot in the ear at a political rally, describing a “whizzing sound” and feeling a “bullet ripping through skin” A male attacker was shot and killed by a member of the Secret Service after the apparent assassination attempt on Trump at the event in Butler, Pennsylvania. The attacker killed one spectator at the rally,…
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90th birthday: ANA Lagos felicitates Soyinka, reads his works
…felicitates elebrates NLNG longlisted writers 2024 Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, Lagos chapter on Saturday celebrated Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka 90th birthday by reading his works. Chairman of ANA Lagos, Ifeanyichukwu Avajah read Soyinka’s poem titled ‘Abiku’ while Oyelola Ogunrinde read “The man Died”. Simeon Okoro read Soyinka ‘s work ‘Chronicles of the Land of the Happiest People on…
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