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FG developed Lagos, not Tinubu – Atiku

NewsDeskNgDec 6, 2022December 6, 20220

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar on Monday said it was the federal government that developed Lagos contrary to the claims of All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tunubu that he was the one that developed the state. Speaking at the PDP presidential rally...

NCC Promises Support to Blood Mgt Agency

NewsDeskNgDec 6, 2022December 6, 20220

By Sarauniya g Usman, Abuja The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it is willing and ready to offer any support required by the National Blood Service Commission (NBSC) to enable the latter to achieve its mandate of regulating, coordinating, and ensuring “the provision of safe, quality blood and blood products”...

No human being is immune to gaffes – Alake defends Tinubu

NewsDeskNgDec 6, 2022December 6, 20220

Dele Alake, an Adviser on Media, Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is human and as such is not immune to gaffes. Alake also said that Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidates of the Labour Party (LP) and the...

Archbishop Chukwuma: Buhari government most corrupt in Nigeria history

NewsDeskNgDec 6, 2022December 6, 20220

The Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province and Bishop, Enugu Diocese, Anglican Communion, Most. Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma has again come hard on President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, alleging that it is the most corrupt in the country’s history. Chukwuma spoke to journalists in Enugu on Monday evening, rating the Buhari administration as...

Demand DNA If You Doubt My Paternity -Tinubu

NewsDeskNgDec 6, 2022December 6, 20220

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has told his critics to demand a paternity test if they have doubts about his origins. There had been speculations about his state of origin as well as other information about him, ahead of the 2023 election. He also revealed...

NEC meeting: ASUU shelves drastic action on withheld salaries

NewsDeskNgDec 6, 2022December 6, 20220

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday opted to continue their nationwide protest, instead of embarking on another round of industrial action over their eight-months’ salaries being withheld by the Federal Government. The decision was arrived at after a lengthy National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in...

Tinubu explains stance on media interviews

NewsDeskNgDec 5, 2022December 5, 20220

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has described himself as a marketable individual.He made this assertion while explaining the reason he doesn’t grant interviews at the Chatham House programme titled, ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, on Monday. According to Tinubu: “I...

Yuletide: NSCDC deploys 2,000 personnel to secure Kaduna

NewsDeskNgDec 5, 2022December 5, 20220

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) Kaduna Command, on Monday, said it would deploy over 2000 personnel to various strategic places, in the 23 Local Government Areas of Kaduna State during this festive period The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSC Badamasi Babangida in a press statement on Monday...

Alleged N5.6bn fraud: HURIWA demands arrest of former NIRSAL MD

NewsDeskNgDec 5, 2022December 5, 20220

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA on Monday, called for the arrest of the allegedly dismissed Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, Aliyu Abdulhameed over alleged N5.6 billion wheat fraud. HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, condemned the secret sacking...

Issues responsible for poverty in Nigeria under FG’s purview – Peter Obi

NewsDeskNgDec 5, 2022December 5, 20220

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Sunday, said issues responsible for the rising poverty rate in the country are under the “purview” of the federal government. Obi, who made the disclosure at the Arise TV presidential town hall series on Sunday evening, explained that the...