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Hardship: Return All Seized Food Items To Owners, Tinubu Tells Customs
The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, has said that President Bola Tinubu has directed the Nigerian Customs Service to return all seized grains to their owners for onward retailing in the Nigerian markets. The CGC disclosed this during a stakeholder meeting at Kwangwalam, a border town in the Maiadua Local Government Area of Katsina State on Saturday. He said...
Our Desire Was To Fix Nigeria — Osinbajo
The outgoing Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has said his eight years working as the number citizen in the country “have gone by very quickly.” He also added that his desire alongside his principal President Muhammadu Buhari’s quest was to fix Nigeria. Osinbajo stated this on Friday evening in his remarks at a valedictory dinner organised in his honour by...
Uzodinma Donates N30m To Onion Producers, Cattle Traders Affected By Attacks
The Governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma has donated the sum of N30 million to members of the Onion of Producers, Processors and Marketers Association, and cattle traders that lost their goods to hoodlums attacks in Imo state last year. It would be r...
Dangote Diesel Alleged To Contain High Sulphur
The controversy surrounding the sulphur content in Dangote Petroleum Refinery diesel, still lingering, The PUNCH reports. Over the weekend, there were online reports alleging that the diesel recently supplied by the $20bn refinery contained high sulphur. This came as oil marketers stated that despite the allegations of high sulphur in Dangote diesel, no motorist or industrial consumer had registered any complaint...
Nigeria Army Holds Quranic Recitation Competition In Borno
The Sector 111 of Operation Hadin Kai and Multinational Joint Task Force in Monguno town of Borno has hosted a Quranic competition for youths to enhance civil-military relations. A statement on Friday by the spokesman of the sector, Babatunde Zubairu, said the maiden competition was organised by Sector 111 commander, A.E Abubakar, to consolidate the support of host communities to...
We’re winning war against corruption, Buhari brags
President Muhammadu Buhari has again declared that his administration was winning the war against corruption in the country. He said the successes recorded so far by anti-graft agencies, especially the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), had bolstered Nigeria’s international image. Buhari added that his government was poised to use cutting-edge information technology to strengthen the achievements and ensure that no government...
NUEE Again, Threatens To Shut Down The National Grid
The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), has again threatened to shut down the national grid. According to the electricity employees, the two-week given to the Federal Government to resolve the crisis had elapsed. Comrade Dukat Ayuba, the zonal organizing secretary, North West of NUEE, while briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Thursday, explained that while negotiation was still on-going, the shutdown...
Apologize To Osun Pensioners For Not Keeping Your Campaign Promise — APC Tells Gov. Adeleke
Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has asked Governor Ademola Adeleke to tender an apology to the pensioners in the State for disappointing them in his campaign promise. The Osun APC revealed that Adeleke promised to pay up the backlog of contributory pensions within six months of his assumption of office. In a statement by Tajudeen Lawal, the...
Former Abia APC Guber Aspirant, Eke Commiserates With Sen. Kalu Over Wife’s Death
A former governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Abia, Chief Daniel Eke has condoled with the Senate Chief Whip, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu (OUK), on the death of his first wife, Ifeoma, at 61. In a condolence message issued from his base in the U.S on Wednesday, Eke expressed deep sadness over the death of...
Obasanjo Remains Nigeria’s Most Genuine Living Statesman –Ikpeazu
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as “Nigeria’s most authentic living statesman whose life’s odyssey has become an invaluable source of history.” Ikpeazu stated this in a warm birthday message to Obasanjo on his 84th birthday on Friday, noting that the former president lived for Nigeria and gave the best of his years to the sustenance of...
