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Rail modernisation: Senate announces new financier of Kaduna-Kano

NewsDeskNgApr 5, 2023April 5, 20230

The Senate on Tuesday announced a new financier for the Kaduna-Kano railway modernisation project. The former financier, the China Exim Bank backed off the project making way for the China Development Bank (CDB) to take over. To this effect, the Senate harmonised the terms of the 2016-2018 Federal Government’s external...

9mobile set to host ‘Channel Partner Conference’

NewsDeskNgApr 5, 2023April 5, 20230

9mobile, a telecommunications company, says its forthcoming annual ‘Channel Partner Conference’ aims to provide business development support across its stakeholder landscape. The company in a statement on Tuesday said the theme for this year’s edition would be: “Re-engage to Succeed”. It said the conference slated for April 13, would lay...

Customs seizes N23.1m smuggled goods, generates N144.8m in Kebbi

NewsDeskNgApr 5, 2023April 5, 20230

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Kebbi State Area Command, says it has seized contraband worth N23.1 million and generated N144.8 million revenue on imports though Kamba border in March. The Customs Area Controller, Mr Ben Oramalugo, made this known while briefing newsmen on the command’s activities for the month...

Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony counts

NewsDeskNgApr 5, 2023April 5, 20230

U.S. former President, Donald Trump, and front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024 has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty when he appeared at Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday in New York, according to media reports. The...

Delta hosts Bet9ja 2023 Teqball Tour with $3,000 up for grabs

NewsDeskNgApr 5, 2023April 5, 20230

Delta State is set to host 16 state teams in the 2023 Teqball Tour coming up from April 10 to April 13. Delta State Sports Media representative, Ogor Clackson, said in a statement on Tuesday that the teams would battle for $3000 prize. The 2023 Teqball Tour, sponsored by Bet9ja,...

Kogi: Audu/Faleke group rejects delegates list, demands direct primary election

NewsDeskNgApr 4, 2023April 4, 20230

The Audu/ Faleke political structure in Kogi state has demanded direct primary mode to give a level playing ground to all the 17 governorship aspirants contesting the forthcoming All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in the state, The group led by Senator Emmanuel Dagana Ocheja, Tuesday in Abuja, placed...

Leaked conversations: DSS now intelligence arm of APC – Timi Frank

NewsDeskNgApr 4, 2023April 4, 20230

…Says Service’s Nollywood script a recipe for tragedy Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has said the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) has metamorphosed into an intelligence arm of the ruling party and urgently needs a total overhaul. Frank, however said...

Tinubu rejects govt of national unity, says only competent people will work with him

NewsDeskNgApr 4, 2023April 4, 20230

The president-elect, Bola Tinubu has ruled out the possibility of forming a Government of National Unity, saying “my aim is higher than that”. The former Lagos governor said this in a statement he personally issued on Thursday. Tinubu, who described himself as the servant of a larger purpose, said his...

Elections: Lessons from Oyo to Nigeria

NewsDeskNgApr 4, 2023April 4, 20230

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 27 March, 2023) “The ides of March are come,” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar says in utter derision and dismissal of a life-and-death warning. And the soothsayer replies “Ay, Caesar; but not gone.” And truly, they were not gone. The 2023 elections...

Kogi PDP elders accused Atiku of plotting to Impose Dino Melaye on the party, says delegates lists are being altered to favour Dino.

NewsDeskNgApr 3, 2023April 3, 20230

Elders of the Kogi state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called Atiku to immediate retracts his steps and allow the original delegates list from 21 local government of Kogi state scales through. The Elders in the statement signed by Alhaji Ibrahim Dansofo, said,the state chapter of the...