Confusion over South-West APC meeting, Fashola, Aregbesola not invited

John Alechenu, Bola Bamigbola, Abiodun Nejo 25 May 2021 Kindly share this story: There was confusion on Monday over Sunday’s meeting of the South-West All Progressives Congress leaders as invitation to the excluded the party’s key stakeholders in the zone. In the notice of the meeting signed by a former National Chairman of the party, […]

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FG bars 22-year aircraft from Nigeria, releases N5bn aviation bailout

Leke Baiyewu 25 May 2021 Kindly share this story:  Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Aviation, Hassan Musa on Monday told the House of Representatives that the Federal Government had released N5bn out of the N26bn approved as COVID-19 intervention fund for the aviation industry. Musa, who appeared before […]

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Reps query NHIS N152m sanitisers, face masks, others spending

Leke Baiyewu 25 May 2021 Kindly share this story:  File copy: Members of the House of Representatives during plenary THE House of Representatives’ Committee on Finance grilled the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Mohammed Sambo, on Monday, raising concerns over how the scheme had been spending its resources. Members of […]

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Senate considers new bill assigning NIPOST stamp duty collection

Senate considers new bill assigning NIPOST stamp duty collection Sunday Aborisade 25 May 2021 Kindly share this story: The Nigerian Senate The Senate Committee on Communications on Monday held a public hearing on two bills. One of the proposed legislation, among others, empowers the Nigerian Postal Service to collect stamp duty for the Federal Government. […]

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Ex-Niger gov blackmailer, chronic liar, serial betrayer – Wike

Dennis Naku 25 May 2021 Kindly share this story: RIVERS State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has described the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Ex-Governors Forum, Babangida Aliyu, as a liar, betrayer and liability to the party. Wike said this during an interactive session with journalists, in Port Harcourt, on Monday. He was responding to a […]

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APC Southwest Leaders’ Resolutions Have My Support-Akeredolu

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has thrown his weight behind the outcome of the meeting held by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday, in Lagos. This is just as the governor said lack of timeous communication aside mix up, were largely responsible for his inability to attend the meeting. Akeredolu, […]

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COAS, 10 others’ death: Air Force to decide on military jets after probe

Adelani Adepegba, Leke Baiyewu, Solomon Odeniyi and Deborah Tolu-Kolawole 24 May 2021 Kindly share this story: Nigeria Air Force plane crashes claim 33 officers, 11 aircraft in six years The Nigerian Air Force on Sunday assured Nigerians that investigations into last Friday’s plane crash and other recent ones would be transparent. The NAF spokesman, Edward […]

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Fayemi, Akeredolu absent as South-West leaders endorse ranching, state police

Fayemi, Akeredolu absent as South-West leaders endorse ranching, state police Samson Folarin, Abiodun Nejo, and Peter Dada 24 May 2021 Kindly share this story: Leaders of the All Progressives Congress in the South-West, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and governors in the region, on Sunday reinforced the call for true […]

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Naked corpse of ex-UNIABUJA female student recovered from drain

Solomon Odeniyi and Francis Olamide 24 May 2021 Kindly share this story: Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, Bala Ciroma THE corpse of a former student of the University of Abuja, Blessing Otunla, was on Sunday found naked inside a drain around Iddo area of the Federal Capital Territory. Otunla, a former English Language student […]

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Man dies after watching football match with girlfriend in Lagos

Deji Lambo 24 May 2021 Kindly share this story: A man, Chika Uba, has died after taking his 32-year-old girlfriend, Amaka Joseph, to watch a football match on Adeniyi Jones Avenue in the Ikeja Local Government Area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Uba went to pick Amaka from her residence on Ogunsolu Street, Cement […]

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