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The Nigerian Army has released the list of successful candidates at the Short Service Combatant Course 47/2021 Selection Board. A statement issued on Friday advised the successful candidates to report for officer cadet training at the Old Site of the NDA Kaduna on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. The statement read,…
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is meeting with former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, in Aso Villa, Abuja. Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, said his principal received Abdulsalami on Friday afternoon. “President @MBuhari receives in audience former Head of State Gen….
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The federal government says it has released N288 billion out of the N500bn appropriated for COVID-19 intervention programmes under the economic sustainability plan. Laolu Akande, spokesman of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this in a statement released on Thursday. Akande said the intervention has led to the provision of 2.1 million…
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A former Lagos State Governor and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, will on Saturday chair the 11th Arewa House Lecture series in Kaduna. Director of the Arewa House, Dr Shuaibu Aliyu, who made this known at a press conference in Kaduna on Thursday, also said Governor…
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Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has said that there is a covenant between members of the All Progressives Congress that power should shift to the South in 2023. He said this on Thursday while speaking at the presentation of a book by a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration…
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The Super Eagles are just a step away from qualification for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and will be looking to pick all three points on Saturday.When they take on the Republic of Benin, as much as they are hopeful however, their opponents might prove hard nuts to…
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The Oluwo of Iwo Kingdom in Osun State, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has urged Yoruba people across the country to work for a Yoruba presidency instead of calling for secession. He described agitaions for secession and an Oodua nation as a dream, saying the project is dead on arrival. The…
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The Group General Manager, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, on Thursday said the Federal Government subsidises Premium Motor Spirit with about N120bn ($263.25m) monthly. He said while the actual cost of importation and handling charges amounts to N234 per litre the government had been selling at N162 per litre…
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By Michael Adeyemo A former deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, on Monday defected to the All Progressives Congress. Omisore contested the 2018 governorship poll on the platform of the Social Democratic Party but went into coalition with the APC before the September 28 rerun. Omisore, was at…
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By Michael Adeyemo The Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Timothy Owoeye has urged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to be mature in picking the flagbearer of the 2023 presidential elections. Owoeye made this known in a brief remarks on Monday while revalidating his membership of the…
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