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Cardinals Hold Ninth Meeting Ahead Of Vote For New Pope
The Vatican hosted the ninth of the Catholic cardinals' nearly daily meetings on Saturday in preparation for the election of a new pope. The closed-door “general congregations” allow them to discuss the challenges the successor to Pope Francis will face before they are locked into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday for the vote. Walking through crowds of pilgrims and journalists for...
FRSC Charges Road Users On Safe Driving
The FRSC's Corps Marshal has urged everyone using the roads to be cautious when traveling in order to prevent crashes on the nation's highways. Muhammad made this known in his letter read at the news briefing of the flag-off of the 2024 Ember Months campaign organized by the FRSC on Tuesday in Akure. The letter was read by Dr. Samuel Ibitoye,...
Remi Tinubu Disburses N427m To 1,709 Wives Of Late Military Personnel
Nigeria’s First Lady Remi Tinubu has disbursed N250,000 each – amounting to 427,750,000 – to 1,709 widows and orphans of fallen heroes of the Nigerian Armed Forces. A statement by Remi Tinubu’s media aide Busola Kukoyi said the move is courtesy of the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) an initiative of the Nigerian First Lady. “Under the Social Investment Program of the...
Anambra Belongs To APGA – Soludo Replies APC On Plot To Take Over The State
Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has responded to claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC), that it will take the state from him in the next election. Since Senator Ifeanyi Ubah joined the APC, the party has been exuding confidence about winning the state in the 2025 governorship election. The state chairman of the party, Mr Basil Ejidike in a...
Why Kaduna Gov Is Yet To Appoint Commissioners – Aide
Dahiru Ahmed, the Kaduna State Governor’s Senior Special Adviser (SSA) on Electronic Media, has stated that Governor Uba Sani has yet to appoint commissioners as part of a deliberate strategy to ensure that individuals with integrity and impeccable character are brought on board. During an interview on a private radio station in the state yesterday, he urged the people to include the...
Primate Ayodele Speaks On States Where Governors-Elect May Be Sacked, Tells Abia PDP Candidate What To Do
Primate Elijah Ayodele, the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church has revealed some States where elected governors can be sacked and replaced with the candidates of opposition parties. In a statement signed Friday by his Media Aide, Osho Oluwatosin, the cleric said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Kaduna, Isah Ashiru, can reclaim his stolen mandate in court and...
Border closure: Customs rakes in N6b daily
Nigeria rakes in between N5 billion and N6 billion daily from imports since the closure of its land borders with neighbouring countries. Prior to the closure in August 2019, daily duty collections hovered between N4 billion and N5 billion, said the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Lagos on Tuesday. The NCS Comptroller-General Col. Hammed Ali (retd.) attributed the rise to increased...
EU Launches Probe Into Temu Over Alleged Sale Of Illegal Goods
The European Union on Monday accused Chinese-founded e-commerce platform Temu of violating the bloc’s digital safety regulations by failing to properly assess the risks posed by illegal products sold on its site. According to the European Commission’s preliminary findings, Temu has not done enough to protect consumers in the EU from potentially dangerous or non-compliant items. The commission cited a...
Politicians Build Religious Houses, Neglect Schools, Says Rochas Okorocha
Sen. Rochas Okorocha, a former Imo State Governor has launched a Teach a Child/Sponsor a Child Project aimed at targeting one million out-of-school children and bringing them to school. This was made known on Wednesday by Okorocha at the unveiling of the project in Abuja on Tuesday. Speaking during the launch, the former governor noted that the country owed a responsibility to...
Arewa Consultative Forum Dismisses Chairman As Afenifere, Others Back President
The Arewa Consultative Forum suspended its chairman, Mamman Osuman, over criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s policies The ACF, in a statement, added that the interests of the North would be best represented by northerners. However, Yoruba socio-political Afenifere, Igbo socio-cultural body Ohanaeze Ndigbo and other regional groups backed the President insisting his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari laid the marker for the hardship...
