Month: January 2019
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Attacks: Saraki Urges Kinsmen To Remain Calm
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki yesterday hurriedly returned to Ilorin from Erin- Ile in Oyun local government area of Kwara state where he had gone to address a political rally, to sympathise with his family members, who were attacked by the thugs of factional All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate…
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Attacks On PDP Members: Kwara PDP Leaders Ask Buhari To Call Factional APC Members To Order
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Kwara state have asked President Muhammadu Buhari and national leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to halt the violence being perpetrated by their supporters in the state. The PDP leaders made the call on Friday at a press conference where they condemned the…
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Threat To Saraki’s Life: Kwara PDP Faults Police Claims
By Steve Oni, Ilorin . The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Kwara state has faulted claims by the state’s police command that the party never reported cases of assault on its members to any police station in the state. The party, in a statement made available to newsmen last night described the police position as another…
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50m Nigerian voters line up for Owuru presidency
Owuru Presidential Campaign Organisation, OPCD, has announced that the welfarist policies of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, had galvanised not less than 50 million prospective Nigerian voters to queuing behind its presidential candidate, High Chief Ambrose Owuru, in the forthcoming 2019 general elections in the country. In a press release signed by Yusufu Ibrahim Esq.…
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Aten Condemns Inclusion Oftheir Executives Names On Nitel/Mtel Persioners Association List
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City The Association of Former Telecoms Employees of Nigeria ( ATEN ) has condemn the wrong inclusion of the names of ATEN executive officials/members in the list of PTAD by the lawyer of the Nitel/Mtel Pensioners Association. Speaking to newsmen in Benin City, on Monday , the General Secretary of the…
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EDSG Resumes School to School Campaign Against Human Trafficking
By Ikhili Ebalu Benin City In continuation of the fight against human trafficking and irregular migration, Edo State government has resumed its school to school campaign in 2019. The Task Force Against Human Trafficking and Irregular Migration took the campaign to Uromi the administrative headquarters of Esan North East local government area of Edo state…
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FG to give Nigerians quality healthcare as democratic dividend- Prof. Adewole
· By Joyce Remi- Babayeju · Minister of Health, Professor Issac Adewole has said that the Federal Government is determined to give Nigerians the dividend of democracy in the area of health and wellbeing of citizens especially those living in rural areas, the poor , women, under five children and the aged. · Adewole made…
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Nigeria gets $21.5m fund to boost healthcare
… as FG launches Basic healthcare Provision Fund By Joyce Remi- Babayeju Nigeria’s healthcare system received a boost yesterday as the Federal Government said it has pumped $55 billion into the Basic Health Care Provision Fund, BHCPF, just as the Bill and Millinda Gates Foundation donated $1.5 million into the purse with an additional $75…
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Tackling educational inequality in Northern Nigeria
By Remi Joyce Babayeju Going by the United Nations, UN, Sustainable Development Goals, SDG 4, all counties should provide education for all children by 2030. In light of Joyce Remi- Babayeju X-rays the trends of inequality in education between boys and girls particularly in Northern Nigeria and the fall in the 2030 target. Tofa Model…
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2019: INEC To Do Away With Incident Forms
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Independent National Electoral Commission says it has abolished the use of incident forms during elections. It however noted that card readers had been improved and would be strictly used to ascertain the authenticity of Permanent Voters Card and the electorate, saying that the machines are ninety nine percent perfect. The…