- Sports
- June 25, 2024
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Euro 2024: Lewandowski Equals Henry, Van Nistelrooy’s European Championship Feat
Robert Lewandowski was on target for Poland who held France to a 1-1 draw in their final Group D Euro 2024 game on Tuesday. Kylian Mbappe put France 1-0 ahead in the 56th minute from the penalty spot for his first-ever European Championship goal. But with 11 minutes left to play Lewandowski drew Poland level with also from the penalty spot. Lewandowski has now taken his goals tally in European Championships to six. This means he…
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- June 25, 2024
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BREAKING: Sokoto Assembly moves to strip Sultan’s powers
The Sokoto State House of Assembly has passed the Sokoto Emirate Council Amendment Bill through the first and second readings. The amendment bill, if passed into law, will strip the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, of powers to appoint the kingmakers and to appoint district heads without government approval, among other things. This Read More
- Biz & Economy
- June 25, 2024
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Veuve Clicquot is Calling on All the Bold and Audacious Businesswomen
Enter the 2024 Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Awards! The Bold Woman Award honours those who dare to be bold, challenging read more Veuve Clicquot is Calling on All the Bold and Audacious Businesswomen
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- June 25, 2024
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Court adjourns Emefiele’s procurement fraud trial to October
Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has adjourned the trial of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to October 21. Justice Muazu fixed the date on Tuesday after the end of cross-examination of the prosecution’s ninth witness, Mrs. Abibia Ockiya-Ogeleye. The witness Ockiya-Ogeleye told the court that she had rendered some services to Architekon for quite some time in the past. She claimed that she had in…
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- June 25, 2024
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FEC bans single-use plastics, okays $1.442m for NDLEA’s arms, ammunition
The Federal Executive Council, on Tuesday, approved $1.442 billion to procure arms, ammunition and equipment for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The new purchase is meant to boost the agency’s anti-narcotics operations nationwide, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, told journalists after the Council met at the State House, Read More
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- June 25, 2024
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Kano gov saves late emir’s family from eviction in Lagos
The governor of Kano state, Alhaji Abba Yusuf has extended his humanitarian gesture to the daughter of late Emir of Kano Zainab Jummai Ado Bayero, her brother and her mother when he settled the rent bill of the Kano Prince and Princess few hours to the deadline of the eviction notice they were served in Read More
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- June 25, 2024
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Edo Poll: SUBEB unveils initiative to mobilise voters
The Executive Chairman of Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Ozavize Salami, on Monday launched the AIO2 initiative to mobilise voters for the September 21 governorship election in the state. The SUBEB Chairman, who was in Akoko-Edo to intimate citizens and party faithfuls on numerous laudable programmes of the Obaseki-led administration in Edo State, Read More
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- June 25, 2024
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Number of Nigerians who can’t read, write, disheartening- Minister
The Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu described as disheartening the number of young Nigerians and adults who are unable to read and write. According to reports, 31 per cent of Nigerian’s population are said to be illiterate, Speaking at the National stakeholders’ engagement towards achieving Pillar 4 of the Education for the Read More
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- June 25, 2024
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Bayelsa hints at floating airline
The newly appointed Managing Director of Bayelsa International Airport, AVM Nelson Calmday (retd.), has said that plans were on by the state government to float an airline. Calmday said this on Tuesday in Amassoma, Bayelsa during his maiden meeting with top management staff, regulatory bodies and service providers of the airport. The new MD said Read More
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- June 25, 2024
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Money Laundering: EFCC opens case against Obiano, calls two witnesses
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has opened its money laundering case against the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, by producing two witnesses who testified before the Federal High Court in Abuja. Obiano, the former governor of Anambra State from March 2014 to March 2022, is facing a nine-count charge the anti-graft agency preferred against him. The anti-graft agency had, among other things, alleged that the erstwhile governor looted over N4 billion…
