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Buhari hosts Senegal, Guinea Bissau leaders to dinner
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday hosted Presidents Macky Sall of Senegal and Umaro Embalo of Guinea Bissau to a private dinner at the State House, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the two West African leaders are in Abuja on official engagements when the Nigerian leader invited them for the dinner. NAN…
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Kenya donates food, medicine to victims of attacks in Mozambique
Kenyan government has donated 15 tons of food products and medicines to Mozambique in support of its people affected by the terrorist attacks in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, media report. This is according to a report by the national Radio Mozambique on Thursday, which quoted the Kenyan Chief Administrative Secretary of Foreign Affairs…
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EndSARS: LASG sets up panel to investigate SARS brutality
The Lagos State Government on Thursday set up a seven-man Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution on the excesses of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu made this known at the Lagos House, Marina, during a media briefing on the ongong EndSARS protests in the state. Sanwo-Olu said that the…
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Fish out attackers of #EndSARS protesters, PDP tells Sanwo-Olu
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State Chapter, has charged Gov. Babajde Sanwo-Olu to fish out all the attackers of the #ENDSARS protesters in the state. The Lagos PDP, in a statement on Thursday by its Spokesman, Taofik Gani, urged Sanwo-Olu to ensure no such attack occurs anymore. ” The governor should come out as…
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Politicising #EndSARS protests, irresponsible — Lagos APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday decried the alleged politisation of #EndSARS protests by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), describing it as “irresponsible.” The Lagos APC expressed this concern in a statement by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Mr Seye Oladejo. “Our attention has been drawn to the needless and irresponsible politicising of the #EndSARS…
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Golf: Australia Open cancelled for first time since World War Two
The Australia Open will be absent from the sports calendar for the first time since World War Two this season. This came to be after Golf Australia and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) of Australia cancelled all of their top events on Friday because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 105th edition of the country’s oldest…
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148 new cases push Nigeria’s COVID-19 toll to 60,982
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 148 new cases of coronavirus in the country, according to its official twitter handle on Thursday. It said that the 148 new cases were from 14 states in the last 24 hours, distributed as follows – Lagos State (66), FCT (25), Oyo (13), Plateau (11), Kaduna…
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Strike: FG to release N30bn earned allowances to ASUU
The Federal Government has agreed to release N30 billion as part payment of the Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Sen. Chris Ngige. Minister of Labour and Employment said this at the end of a meeting between the Federal Government and ASUU on Friday in Abuja. “The Accountant General…
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International Handwashing Day: FG donates hand washing facilities to unity schools
Dr Mohammad Abubakar, Minister of Environment on Thursday says the Federal Government has distributed hand washing facilities to all the six unity schools in the FCT. Abubakar made this known while briefing newsmen during the commemoration of International Hand washing Day, with the theme, “Hand Hygiene for All”, in Abuja. He said the facilities will…