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London’s Heathrow airport dived into a net loss of £2.0 billion last year, a result that “underlines the devastating impact of Covid-19 on aviation”, it said Wednesday. The loss after tax, equivalent
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Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum was at two hospitals on Wednesday, after Boko Haram fighters fired shots from Rocket Propelled Grenades, on which killed 10 residents and 47 injured in Maiduguri.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday, fixed March 5, for judgment in the Rivers All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Committee Chairmanship suit. The post Supreme Court to deliver judgment in Rivers APC tussle
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Tiger Woods is ‘awake and responsive’ in LA hospital after having a metal rod inserted into his shattered right leg and screws and pins in his ankle. Tiger Woods was put under
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By Chidi Nkwopara – Owerri Angry reactions have continued to trail the alleged intervention of the Presidency, when Senator Rochas Okorocha was arrested weekend, by the police in Owerri, for breaking the
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Senegal’s President Macky Sall said Tuesday that his native country and neighbouring West African states must “prepare to do battle” to stop jihadist expansion beyond the Sahel. In an interview broadcast that
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Opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane on Wednesday claimed he narrowly won Niger’s presidential elections, a day after official results said he lost by more than 11 percentage points. “The compilation of results… which
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Tragedy struck Wednesday in Umuahia the Abia State capital as a conductor was accidentally crushed to death by his own driver. The post Tipper driver crushes own conductor to death in Abia
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Twisted federalism responsible for sectional activism, says Akeredolu By Dayo Johnson PRESIDENT of African Development Bank, AfDB, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, yesterday, lamented that Nigeria is not practicing true federalism, but fatherism. Adesina,
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By Nwafor Sunday The Niger Delta militants Tuesday threatened to destroy all the Federal government infrastructures in Lagos and Abuja over alleged marginalization of the region and failing to deliver on the
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THE Senate has begun the screening of the newly appointed Chairman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa. The post Breaking: EFCC chairman designate, Bawa at senate chamber for
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Unarguably, expectations are high across Africa following the emergence of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The post Okonjo-Iweala: Africa’s meal ticket at WTO? appeared first on
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Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Wednesday, condemned in strong terms, the Senate’s confirmation of the immediate past Service Chiefs as ambassadors. Frank,
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In an unprecedented development, Ghana has received a historic first shipment of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility, ahead of Nigeria. The post UPDATED: Ahead of Nigeria, Ghana
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Turkish prosecutors on Wednesday ordered the detention of 148 people in nationwide raids over their alleged links to a network behind a coup attempt in 2016, local media reported. Acting upon the
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By Joseph Erunke THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Wednesday morning, led many workers across government agencies to picket the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, over alleged unfriendly policies against workers of the commission.
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By Rotimi Fasan The world has for more than a week now been treated to images from Texas, in the United States of America, that many Americans thought belonged in the “Third
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Bauchi—The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, yesterday accused Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State of creating the hostility between Fulani herdsmen with the Tiv by his utterances and actions.
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By Victoria Ojeme The report of an independent forensic and performance audit carried out last year at the African Union Commission has shown massive corruption and abuse of office ravaging the AU.
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By Chioma Obinna Lagos State Taskforce on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods on Tuesday shut 16 illegal, substandard and unregistered pharmacies, patent medicine stores and premises in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local
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A policeman on duty was, yesterday, killed in an early morning attack on a police station at Abayi Osisioma Local Government Area, near Aba, Abia State. The post Policeman killed as suspected
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By Dirisu Yakubu In what appears to an end to the frosty relationship between the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its House of Representatives caucus, national chairman, Prince
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By Juliet Umeh A research firm, Sophos, has joined in the call for African mobile money, and internet users generally, to guard their data jealously as fintech growth appears to be astronomical
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By Prince Osuagwu The Chief Executive Officer of 9mobile, Alan Sinfield, has said his company will support the ‘Smart City’ initiative of the Lagos State Government. Sinfield at a panel session, Digital
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By Sunny Ikhioya RECENTLY, some people brought up the Asaba massacre saga as a reminder of the outstanding issues of the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) and someone said we should forget it.
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…Expects N1.34 trn investments, 250, 000 jobs to be created …Obtains nod from ICRC to proceed with project By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor In its bid to ensure regular maintenance of
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Malaysia sent more than 1,000 Myanmar nationals back to their strife-torn homeland on Tuesday despite a court order to halt the deportation, a move rights groups said could endanger the deportees’ lives.
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IN a sense, and as in the case of petrol, countries that do not have as much sunshine as Africa are already ‘selling sunshine’ to Nigeria through photovoltaic solar panels and other
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A shareholder of Oando Plc, Engr. Patrick Ajudua, has won a case challenging the directive of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC suspending Oando’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on the ground of
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THE Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has expressed concern over the safety of Ogboinbiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State where the natives are daily
