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FG targets 2025 for completion of Kano-Kastina-Maradi rail project
Kunle Sanni The Minister of Transportation, Sa’idu Alkali, has announced that the first segment of the 387km Kano-Maradi rail project will be completed in 2025. He disclosed this Friday via a post on X, (formally known as twitter). Alkali stated this during an inspection tour of on-going Kano-Maradi & Kano-Kaduna rail modernization projects. He said, “We came all the way…
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PHOTO NEWS: VP Shettima, Gbajabiamila, others at Oba Adetona’s 90th birthday celebration
Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, Chief of Staff, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, Ogun and Osun State governors, Mr. Dapo Abiodun, and Mr. Ademola Adeleke on Friday attended the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona 90th birthday celebration where he was conferred second highest national honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of Niger (GCON). Tinubu, who was represented by Senator…
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FG to partner Saudi Arabia to boost food production
In a bid to improve the bi-lateral relationship between both countries, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari has expressed the Ministry’s readiness to partner with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to increase food production. The Minister disclosed this on the occasion of the visit of the Saudi Arabia Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Engr. Abdulrahman…
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BREAKING: Tinubu confers GCON on Awujale at 90
…Oba Adetona represents ancestral heritage of the Ijebu people-Abiodun President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday, conferred on the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, the second highest national honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of Niger (GCON) to mark the monarch’s 90th birthday celebration. President Tinubu made the announcement at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye during the commissioning…
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PHOTO NEWS: Prince Harry arrives Abuja with wife, Meghan Markle
Prince Harry and His Wife, Meghan Markle arrive Nigeria, begins tour. He is in Nigeria on the invitation of the Defence Headquarters to launch his Invictus. The couple will visit Lagos and Kaduna while in Nigeria where Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Governor Uba Sani will receive them.
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Safeguard citizens’ rights, IGP urges police legal officers
In line with his administration’s efforts to bequeath to Nigerians a Police Force compliant with the rule of law, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun on Thursday met with police legal officers at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, urging them to safeguard citizens’ rights and ensure due process in all aspects of policing activities. The IGP reiterated the critical role…
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Tinubu commissions Funtua Inland dry port in Katsina state
Kunle Sanni President Bola Tinubu on Thursday commissioned the Funtua Inland Dry Port (FIDP) in Katsina State, northwest Nigeria. The Funtua Inland Dry Port (FIDP) is a project of the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Nigeria Shippers’ Council. It was also funded through the public private partnership arrangement developed and operated by Equatorial Marine Oil and Gas Company Limited…
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US lawmakers demand fresh investigation into Shell-Eni OPL 245, implicate Jonathan in $200m bribe
Kunle Sanni Two Congressmen from the United States have called for the resumption of a corruption investigation into Shell and Eni’s 2011 purchase of OPL 245, which occurred during President Goodluck Jonathan’s previous administration. In a letter they jointly signed on May 8, Congressmen Maxine Waters and Joyce Beatty encouraged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to look into how…
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FCSC charges State civil service commissions on innovations, new ideas
The Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) has charged State civil service commissions on innovations and strategies in the implementation of public policies. Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, gave the charge during the courtesy call by the Chairman, Yobe State Civil Service Commission and the Permanent Secretaries Commission and of Ministry of Establishment and Training, in Abuja. Olaopa explained…
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Suleja Jailbreak: Security agencies on trail of all escapees- Tunji-Ojo
The Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has said security agencies are on the trail of all the escapees from Suleja Custodial Centre following the collapse of its perimeter fence during a downpour last month. Tunji-Ojo also revealed that some of the fleeing inmates have been recaptured and are now back in custody. He made this known in Abuja when…
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