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Lagos, Ogun, Oyo make NIN Top 5, as total enrolments hit 92.6m
…Ekiti among bottom 3 states Three South West states are among the Top 10 enrolments for the National Identification Number, a data released by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said. The data showed the total number of enrolments across the country ending November 28, 2022. According to the data which was seen by WesternPost, Lagos tops the total…
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Buhari charges new ECOWAS management to complete ongoing reforms
…laments unconstitutional changes in sub-region President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the new management team at ECOWAS Commission led by Dr. Omar Alieu Toure to complete the review and harmonisation of ongoing reforms aimed at strengthening the sub-regional body. President Buhari stated this Sunday in Abuja in his welcome address at the 62nd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of…
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PHOTO NEWS: Osinbajo arrives Hanoi, Vietnam, begins bilateral talks
Vice President, Professor Yemi on Sunday evening arrived in Hanoi, capital of Socialist Republic of Vietnam where he will begin his meetings with Vietnamese government officials, including President, Vice President and Prime Minister and also the Nigerian business communities to deepen bilateral relationships between both nations.
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Nigeria’s $11bn London trial will expose corruption, court hears
A British lawyer representing Nigeria in a London court case in which $11 billion are at stake said on Friday the trial would reveal corruption “on an industrial scale”, not only of Nigerian officials but also of British lawyers. The case stems from a contract for a gas project awarded by Nigeria in 2010 to a company called Process and…
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FG’s dereliction of duty, inability to secure lives reason for poverty, governors reply minister
The Nigeria Governors Forum has accused the Federal Government of pushing its responsibilities to states. In a response to Minister of National Planning, Clement Agba, who claimed that states governors were responsible for the poverty in the country, Director of Media and Public Affairs of the NGF, AbdulRazaque Bello-Barkindo, said 5hr derilition of duty of the FG and its inability…
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Osinbajo to meet Vietnam President, Prime Minister to improve economic relations with Nigeria
Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday departed Abuja on official trip to Vietnam where he hopes to improve economic ties with the Asian country. While in Vietnam, Osinbajo will meet with Vietnamese President, Vice President and Prime Minister among other senior officials and business leaders. Current trade between Nigeria and Vietnam is put at $500million annually by 2019 official…
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States got N5.03tn support under Buhari – FG
The Federal Government has revealed that states got over N5 trillion support since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office on May 29, 2015. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, revealed this at the sixth edition of the presentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration scorecard (2015-2023) in Abuja on Thursday. She said the funds were released as 13…
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Oil producing states got N625.43bn refund since 2021, says FG
The Federal Government has revealed that the nine oil producing states in the country received a total N625.43 billion as refund from 13 per cent oil derivation, subsidy and SURE-P refunds. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu disclosed this in a press statement on Friday. Shehu said the information was gotten from the Federation…
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Buhari accuses governors of ‘pocketing’ LG allocations
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja flayed the tendency of some chief executives to encourage corruption at the local government system, thereby inhibiting development at the grassroots.The President spoke at a parley with members of the Senior Executive Course (SEC) No. 44 (2022) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru.He narrated his personal experience on stemming…
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FG adopts compulsory use of mother tongue in schools
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the compulsory use of mother tongues in primary one to six across the country. The new National Language Policy was one of the decisions taken at the FEC meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. Addressing newsmen at the State House, Abuja after the meeting, Minister of Education, Adamu…
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