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Guinea Coup: Osinbajo To Represent Buhari at ECOWAS Meeting in Ghana
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will represent President Muhammadu Buhari at a meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) over the political situation in Guinea and Mali. The meeting will be held on Sunday (today) in Accra, Ghana’s capital city. In September, Alpha Conde, Guinea president, was ousted from office and detained by military forces led […]
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#AnambraDecides: Soludo Wins 10 of 11 LGAs Announced So Far
Chukwuma Soludo, candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has won in ten out of eleven LGAs in the Anambra governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has so far announced results in eleven out of the 21 LGAs in the state. The electoral umpire has announced the results of the following LGAs: […]
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Fresh Fish Traders Decry Inadequate Supply, High Prices
Fresh fish traders at Ejina Market in Ikorodu area of Lagos State on Sunday decried low supply of fish by fishermen. Some of the traders who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said prices of the few fishes they got were high. Mrs Fausat Ojikutu, whose father and husband are fishermen said the […]
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Nigeria’s Seaports Operating Far Above Installed Capacity – NPA MD
Mr Mohammed Bello-Koko, Acting Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has said that the two Lagos seaports located in Lekki and Tin Can Island were operating “far beyond their installed capacities”. “What it simply means is that if they were built to handle 500,000 Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), for instance, probably they are […]
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How We’re Tackling Corruption In Maritime Operations – NPA MD
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is taking stringent measures to tackle unwholesome tendencies in maritime business to entrench confidence in the system, its Acting Managing Director, Mr Mohammed Bello-Koko, has said. He told newsmen on Sunday in Lagos that one of the measures was a general redeployment of security officials that had stayed for a […]
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NIS Applauds Nigeria-Cote d’Ivoire MoU On Consular, Immigration Services
Mrs Edith Onyemenam, Assistant Comptroller, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), says the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire on consular services is commendable. Onyemenam spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the side-lines of the high level segment of the Second Session of the Nigeria-Cote d’Ivoire Bi-national Commission […]
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Ataguba, Olawale, Mukoro Appointed into Railway Unbundling Committee as Senator Gbemi Saraki Chairs Inaugural Meeting
* Receives Presentation from Anderson, KPMG & CPCS Nigeria’s decision to unbundle the Nigerian Railway Corporation has started with the Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki chairing the first meeting of the Ministerial Committee on the unbundling of the corporation. Addressing the members drawn from private and public sectors, Senator Gbemisola Saraki reiterated […]
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APC Chieftain Decries Planned Zoning Of Niger Governorship To Bida Emirate
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State has been urged not to accept the proposed micro zoning of the governorship to Bida Emirate by some members. Dr Mohammed Santuraki, a one time Managing Director of Bank of Agriculture and a Senatorial aspirant, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Bida. He explained that […]
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Any Herder Carrying Ak- 47 Is A Criminal- Govenor Akeredolu
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state says no genuine herders would graze his herds of cow with AK-47. The Governor insisted that any herder who destroys any farmland in the state would be made to pay compensation to the affected farmer. He spoke at the Cocoa Conference Hall of the Governor’s office while playing host […]