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Rivers Emergency Rule: FG Deploys 10,000 Troops Against Vandals As Opposition, NLC Protest

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Rivers Emergency Rule: FG Deploys 10,000 Troops Against Vandals As Opposition, NLC Protest

The Federal Government has deployed 10,000 Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps personnel to curb further attacks on oil pipelines against the backdrop of...

Minimum Wage: NYSC To Spend N307.6bn On Corpers’ Allowances

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FG Begins Disbursement Of ₦44,000 Minimum Wage Arrears To Ex-Corps Members

The National Youth Service Corps  may spend as much as N307.6bn on the mobilisation and payment of allowances to corps members, The PUNCH reports. This amount...

Dangote Refinery Suspends Petrol Sales In Naira

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Dangote Refinery Suspends Petrol Sales In Naira

The Dangote Refinery has officially declared that it will cease supplying petroleum products in naira. In a statement by the refinery on Wednesday, the Dangote...

Customs Intercepts ₦72.6m Petrol Smuggling To Cameroon Via River Benue

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Customs Intercepts ₦72.6m Petrol Smuggling To Cameroon Via River Benue

The Adamawa and Taraba Customs Command has confiscated Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, valued at over ₦72.6 million. The command attributed the...

Ibas Sworn In By Tinubu As Rivers Sole Administrator

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Ibas Sworn In By Tinubu As Rivers Sole Administrator

President Bola Tinubu has sworn in Vice Admiral Ibok-Étè Ibas (retd.) as the sole administrator of Rivers State. Tinubu swore Ibas into office at about...

UCC Congratulates Ogboro-Okor on Appointment as Edo Diaspora Agency DG

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The University of Benin Comrades Community (UCC) has congratulated Dr. Loretta Oduware Ogboro-Okor, an alumnae of the institution, on her appointment as the Director-General...

FG Backs Emergency Rule, Says Tinubu’s Decision To Avert Rivers Crisis

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FG Prepares To Fast-track Trial Of 5,000 Insurgents

On Wednesday, the Federal Government stated that President Bola Tinubu's declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State was timely and aimed at...

Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial Legally Flawed – Lawyer

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Nnamdi Kanu's Trial Legally Flawed – Lawyer

Respected legal expert Barrister Christopher Chidera has described the Federal Government's planned prosecution of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),...

Fubara, Family Vacate Government House Amid Emergency Rule

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Fubara, Family Vacate Government House Amid Emergency Rule

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has vacated the Government House in Port Harcourt, leaving with his family and security details. Fubara reportedly left the seat...

Abia Gov Knocks Down Kidnappers Hideout, Issues Landlords Warning

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Abia Gov Knocks Down Kidnappers Hideout, Issues Landlords Warning

On Tuesday, the Abia State Government demolished a building in Osisioma Local Government Area used as a hideout by kidnappers. The government also warned...

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