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BREAKING: Keyamo summons heads of aviation agencies over safety concerns
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has summoned heads of aviation regulatory agencies over safety concerns in the sector. The minister said a thorough assessment of recent incidents will be carried out during the meeting. “Due to safety concerns in the aviation sector expressed by members of the public, I have summoned
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Dialogue key to resolving herders, farmers clashes -Kebbi gov
Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, has identified dialogue as the best tool for resolving the lingering farmers/herders clashes in the country. This is contained in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Ahmed Idris, and made available to journalists in Birnin Kebbi on Monday. Idris quoted the governor as saying
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Association promises to sanction erring referees
The President of the Nigeria Referees Association, Sanni Zubair, on Monday, reiterated the body’s commitment to ensure that referees performing below par were flushed out of the country’s domestic leagues. Zubair said this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos against the backdrop of incessant cases of poor officiating by match officials. NAN reports
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Six pupils arraigned for beheading French teacher
Six teenagers went on trial in Paris on Monday for their role in the 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, the first of two trials in a case that horrified France. The suspects arrived holding their coats over their faces at the closed-doors juvenile court, a judicial source told AFP. The 47-year-old history and geography
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I sat for O’level seven times – IDP who emerged best graduating student
Twenty-seven-year-old Amos Ishaku from Borno State, who emerged as the overall best student of the Edo State University Uzairue, has been an internally displaced person in the Home of the Needy in Benin, the Edo State capital for nine years. In the interview, he tells ADEYINKA ADEDIPE his experience in the hands of Boko Haram
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Western democracy has not failed in Nigeria, ex-minister replies Obasanjo
A former Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Nduese Essien, said what has been practiced in Nigeria since 1999 is not the presidential system of Western democracy, but a modified form of democracy by the system’s operators. He added that the presidential Western-style democracy has not failed in Nigeria, adding that it has not
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Nobody can stop my ambition, says Shaibu
The Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has declared his interest to contest the forthcoming 2024 governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, declaring that nobody can halt his ambition. The deputy governor, who made his declaration at the Bishop Kelly Centre, Benin, said he is a home boy who feels the
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Police inspector dies in Kebbi accident, nine injured
A police inspector attached to the Kebbi State Command has died following a lone accident involving a police vehicle conveying officers on investigative duties. Police spokesperson, Nafi’u Abubakar, said in a Sunday statement that the crash occurred along Koko-Jega Road after a tyre burst, causing the Toyota Land Cruiser to flip three times into a
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I had no control over policies as governor – Udom Emmanuel
The former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, has revealed what he regrets most during his tenure as the number one citizen of the state. Udom made the revelation during a Special Thanksgiving/Welcome Service by the United Evangelical Church, Lagos Township Superintendency on Sunday. The Special Thanksgiving/Welcome Service was organised to honour the former
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Olanipekun seeks help for poor Nigerians
A legal luminary, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has called on the wealthy and well-to-do Nigerians to come to the aid of the vast majority of Nigerians who are poor in the interest of humanity and peace. Olanipekun, who said that about 70 per cent of Nigerians were ‘rudderless and poverty-stricken’, said that showing kindness to
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