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Nigeria, US, Japan top list of embassies owing ground rent in UK
Kunle Sanni The UK government has announced that the Nigerian high commission in London, owes an accumulated £8.4 million as unpaid congestion charges. According to a spreadsheet released by Transport for London (TfL), the sum is related to unpaid costs that diplomats racked up from the beginning of the congestion charge in 2003 and the end of the previous year.…
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Olaopa canvasses online training for civil servants
Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission ( FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has canvassed for online training for civil servants in Nigeria. Olaopa said it would not only deepen their understanding of their responsibilities but also make them in tune with current bureaucratic reality. He stated this when Taraba State Head of Civil Service led by Mr. Paul Maigada Tino…
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Tinubu condoles with Iran over passing of president Raisi
Kunle Sanni President Bola Tinubu has extended his condolences to the government and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran over the passing of President Ebrahim Raisi; Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials in a helicopter crash. Tinubu in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale Monday, expresses profound grief over this disturbing tragedy, and describes President…
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BREAKING: Court dismisses Nnamdi Kanu’s fresh bail request
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja, has dismissed the request by the detained leader of the Biafra nation agitators, Nnamdi Kanu, for the restoration of his revoked bail and the removal from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), to a house arrest or prison custody. The Judge said that the same request had…
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Renewed Hope has turned into hopelessness for Nigerians- NEF Chieftain
A member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Prof Usman Yusuf, has tackled the administration of President Bola Tinubu, saying that the government had made Nigerians more hopeless in the last one year. Yusuf said this on Channels TV while assessing the performance of the Tinubu administration in one year. He said the government has injected the Nigerian people with…
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JUST IN: Tinubu appoints Ngelale as special envoy on Climate Action
Kunle Sanni President Bola Tinubu has appointed Ajuri Ngelale as the Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action. Ngelale, will serve in this role as part of a larger Presidential Committee, to be chaired by the President. The Presidential Committee on Climate Action and Green Economic Solutions, established by the President, will coordinate and oversee all policies and programmes on climate…
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Insecurity: Afenifere asks Tinubu to invoke Executive Order on LG, State Police
The apex Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has lamented insecurity in the country, asking President Bola Tinubu to invoke an executive order to create state and local government police. A statement issued on Saturday by the group’s spokesman, Ajayi, said the move followed increased reports of banditry and kidnapping in Ogun, Edo, Ekiti, Oyo, Kogi, Zamfara, and Niger states. “There are…
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FG approves N110bn to rejuvenate National Youth Investment Fund
The Federal Government has approved N110 billion to revitalize the National Youth Investment Fund (NYIF), for the 2024 fiscal year to serve as a cornerstone for youth empowerment. The Minister of Youth Development, Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim, disclosed this during the closing ceremony of the Ministry’s Management Retreat on Presidential Priorities and Deliverables with the theme: ‘Achieving the Eight Presidential…
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NUP rejects FG’s move to access N20trn pension fund
The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) in the South West, Comrade Olusegun Abatan, has rejected the move of the Federal Government to spend the N20 trillion belonging to contributory pensioners in the country to fund infrastructural development. He called on members of the NUP – who are under the old defined benefit (DB) scheme –…
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Troops foil kidnap attempt, neutralise IPOB, recover weapons
Troops of Operation UDO KA on Friday foiled an attempted kidnap of a South Easterner (names withheld) at Umuaka in Njaba LGA of Imo State. A statement issued by Lt. Jonah Eromosele Unuakhalu for Joint Task Force Operation UDO KA, posted on the X handle (formerly Twitter) of the Nigerian Army, said “The troops while on routine patrol at…
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