Month: February 2018
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Ethnic Clan Leaders Cautioned Against Divisive Statements
By Steve Oni, Ilorin A Group, the Kwara South Consultative Forum, has cautioned and admonished people in positions of leadership of the various ethnic clans in Nigeria to always be circumspect and issue statements that would unite rather than those capable of igniting division and misgivings. The Forum, which was reacting to the communiqué by…
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Aspirant Decries Bill Preventing Married Women Contesting Elections In Home States
By Steve Oni, Ilorin A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Female Presidential Aspirant, Professor Olufunmilayo Adesanya-Davies has decried the National Assembly’s recent bill, an amendment, that would prevent women who married outside their places of origin, from contesting elections or being appointed into political offices in their states of origin. She said that the review of…
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Child Destitution Bill passes 2nd reading
By Najem Francis, Sokoto A bill seeking the establishment of a National Commission on Child Destitution has passed second reading at the upper chamber of the National Assembly. A statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakka, Bashir Rabe Mani, issued in Sokoto on Thursday, said that the…
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Nnewi Automobile & Ancillary Roundtable, Trade Fair kicks off
By Joseph INOKOTONG All is set for the first Nnewi automobile and ancillary industry roundtable and trade fair. The event comes up this week in the sprawling industrial town of Nnewi. The event which comes up from Wednesday, will last for three days and is expected to bring together key players in the nation’s automobile…
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Diamond Bank doles out N433m in DiamondXtra Season 10
By Joseph INOKOTONG Diamond Bank, a retail banking giant has set aside a whopping N433 million as the total prize money to be won in its Diamondxtra Season 10 reward scheme which kicked recently. Exciting times are here for customers over 4,950 will be rewarded in the monthly and quarterly electronic draws, which would be…
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NDIC strengthens partnership with ICPC
By Joseph INOKOTONG The Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim has said that the Corporation has zero tolerance for all forms of malpractices within the Corporation and in all the initiatives it has taken to fully implement its mandate. The NDIC boss made the remark during the inauguration…
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Kwara Will Complete All Ongoing Projects-Gov Ahmed
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Ahead of 2019 elections, the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has reassured the people of the state that all ongoing capital projects embarked upon by his administration would be completed on schedule. Governor Ahmed gave the assurance on Wednesday in Ilorin while speaking with newsmen shortly after inspecting ongoing projects…
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Edo Varsity Ranked 3rd Among Universities In Nigeria
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin city The Edo University, Iyamho once again has made history by being the first State University to be ranked first among State Universities and third University in Nigeria in the first ever Open Educational Resources (OER) conducted by National Universities Commission (NUC) Institutional repository. The ranking which was first of…
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Ex-militants raise alarm over plot to oust head of Onshore edu unit
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin city Ex-militants from Edo, Rivers, Bayelsa, Ondo and Delta states, on Tuesday, raised the alarm over plot by unknown group of persons to remove the head of Onshore Education Unit, Major Hassan Kesiena Mowarin rtd from the office of the Amnesty Programme of the federal government. Leader of the group,…
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Refining Crude Locally Permanent Solution to Fuel – Dogara
By Aaron Ossai Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has advocated for local refining of crude oil to make fuel available and easily accessible to all Nigerians, saying every other measure to put an end to the recurring problem of fuel scarcity will work temporarily which he described as embarrassing. The Speaker…