The Senate, on Tuesday, asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to sack service chiefs as a result of their failure to secure Nigerians.The Senate decision, which is the third it would pass this year, followed a motion by Senator Kashim Shettima on the recent killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno State by[...]
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Finally, the House of Representatives has taken a resolution to invite President Muhammadu Buhari for explanation on the escalating security situation in the country.This is coming on the heels of the killing of over 43 rice farmers in Zarbamari village, Borno State over the weekend.Recall that the House was earlier divided on the invitation and[...]
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the second term of five years.The confirmation followed the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on INEC, led by Senator Kabiru Gaya, which submitted its report at plenary and recommended Yakubu for confirmation.The[...]
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The national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it is still consulting on what its reply will be to the offers the Federal Government made for it to end its eight-month-old strike.The National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said this on Tuesday in a chat with Vanguard.According to him, the consultation[...]
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A mother in Sweden has been arrested on suspicion of locking her son inside their apartment for 28 years, leaving him undernourished and with almost no teeth, police and media reports said Tuesday.“The mother is suspected of illegal deprivation of liberty and causing bodily harm,” Stockholm police spokesman Ola Osterling told AFP.He said the man[...]
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A former Governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji, has described insinuations that former state governors elected into the Senate were unproductiveOrji, who represents Abia Central Senatorial District, said this while inspecting one of his constituency projects at Okwuta Primary School, Isieke Ibeku, on Sunday.He said, “You see, all this hate speech – people saying[...]
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The funeral of Ghana’s late ex-President Jerry Rawlings will be held on December 23, his family announced on Monday.Head of the funeral planning committee, James Gbeho, in a press release on Monday, said the family, in consultation with government, agreed on the date.The funeral rites for the 73-year-old will come off at the Independence Square[...]
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Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has told local government chairmen in the state to pay staff salaries in order to ameliorate the suffering of workers and their families.The governor spoke while receiving a delegation of local government chairmen, led by the chairman of Lafia Local Government Area, Mr Aminu Mauzu, in the Government House, Lafia,[...]
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on Monday in Asaba assented to the state’s 2021 Appropriation Bill of N383 billon.The bill tagged, ‘Budget of Economic Recovery’ is made up of N210 billion capital expenditure and N173 billion recurrent expenditureThe Delta House of Assembly increased the budget figure of N378.48 proposed by the governor to N383[...]
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Facebook on Monday announced it is buying a startup specializing in helping businesses interact with customers online.The acquisition of five-year-old Kustomer comes as the leading social network continues to weave e-commerce into offerings, particularly its WhatsApp and Messenger messaging services.More than 175 million people contact businesses via WhatsApp daily, and the number is growing, according[...]
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