The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has announced that corps members will begin receiving a new monthly allowance of N77,000 starting February 2025. The NYSC DG disclosed this on Thursday while speaking to ...
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FBN Holdings grew its gross earnings by 113 per cent to N3.33tn in the 2024 financial year. This was indicated in the group’s unaudited financial statement published on Thursday via the platform of the Nigerian Exchange Limited. FBN Holdings ...
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A Nigerian man took to social media to grieve the loss of his best friend, who passed away in November 2024. The man @wired_hk on TikTok, was in shock especially since he had been under the impression that the late friend ...
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The Peoples Democratic Party’s elected governors have called for an emergency meeting on Friday in Asaba, Delta State, to redress the challenges plaguing the party. This comes as the party’s BoT meeting on Wednesday in Abuja was marred by ...
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The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, has announced the suspension of operations by Max Air following Tuesday night’s incident involving the airline’s aircraft in Kano. It also announced on Wednesday that it had commenced organisational risk ...
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The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organisation, Afenifere and ex-Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Monday, commended legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), for agreeing to withdraw the defamation cases instituted against human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi. ...
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NESG Appoints Wole Adeniyi, Mohamad Darwish, and Olusegun Alebiosu as Board Members The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has announced the appointment of three leaders, Mr Wole Adeniyi, Mr Mohamad Darwish, and Mr Olusegun Alebiosu, to its board ...
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Christian and Muslim leaders on Monday clashed over the planned inauguration of shari’a arbitration panel across the South-Western states of Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo and Lagos by the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. This comes as the proponents ...
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Gospel singer Timileyin Ajayi, the suspected murderer of Salome Adaidu has pleaded not guilty to the killing of the National Youth Service Corps member who died a few weeks ago at his residence. The Nasarawa State Police Command arrested ...
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The Lagos State Government has commenced electronic registration for the 2025 Universal Basic Education by Continuous Assessment Scores and Placement Test. This development is part of the state’s efforts to provide quality education to its citizens. According to a ...
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The Omoluabi Progressives, a political group led by ex-Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has said its members have resolved to quit the All Progressives Congress. A statement signed by the Organising and Publicity Secretary, Omoluabi Progressives, Oluwaseun Abosede, obtained ...
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Bauchi State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Governors Forum, Bala Mohammed, has labelled the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, a serial betrayal and a threat to the survival of the PDP, calling on ...
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The Defence Headquarters has confirmed the death of 22 soldiers and over 70 insurgents during an ongoing military operation in the Timbuktu Triangle, a notorious terrorist stronghold in Borno State. The operation, conducted by troops of Operation Hadin Kai, ...
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ANAMBRA POLICE ARREST FOUR SUSPECTS INCLUDING A LADY ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN THE BURNING OF A 74-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IN A WHEELCHAIR AT ABAGANA AND INITIATE MOVE TO ARREST THE MAIN SUSPECT _Recovers a casket, the remains of the deceased and ...
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The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday fixed February 27, 2025, for the arraignment of Gbolahan Obanikoro, the son of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, and four others for alleged N1,356,057,330.43 fraud. To be arraigned alongside Obanikoro are Adejare Adegbenro, ...
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The Lagos State House of Assembly has tightened security at the Assembly Complex as lawmakers hold plenary on Monday (today), The PUNCH reports. There are speculations that there might be a showdown at the House as the former Speaker, ...
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•Imported PMS landing cost now cheaper than Dangote’s price as dealers import 76.84m litres in two days Oil marketers have revealed that the landing cost of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) as of Friday was N922.65 per litre. Dealers said ...
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Against all Odds, FirstBank Eyes Another Decade of Growth By Geoff Iyatse In the first nine months of last year, the earnings per share (EPS) of FBNHoldings Plc, the parent company of First Bank of Nigeria Limited ...
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The Lagos State House of Assembly has warned its impeached Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, against actions capable of destabilising the legislative arm and heating the polity. This comes after Obasa, on Saturday, while addressing his supporters on his arrival from ...
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The University of Ilorin has appointed two new Deputy Vice Chancellors, Professors Taibat Odunola-Bakare and Mukhtar Adeiza Etudaiye, to succeed Professors Olubunmi Omotesho and Sulaiman Ambali, whose tenures ended in December 2024. A statement issued on Friday by the ...
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A woman in Eswatini, identified as Dumsile Dludlu has been remanded for allegedly snooping through the WhatsApp account of her husband, Samukeliso Matse, without his consent. Dludlu’s act is said to contravene Eswatini’s Computer Crime and Cybercrime Act of ...
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Iranian police arrested two young women after the publication of a video in which they danced in a Tehran cemetery without adhering to the country’s strict dress code, local media reported Friday. “Not long ago, two people, in the ...
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Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has urged the 2024 Batch C, Stream 2 corps members deployed to the state for their mandatory one-year national service to be worthy ambassadors of the National Youth Service Corps. Diri was represented by ...
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Former Chairman of Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers and the Alawe of Ilawe Ekiti, Adebanji Alabi, has cautioned telecommunications service providers against ripping off Nigerians with tariff increases without commensurate good services. Alabi, who bemoaned the poor services ...
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The Nigeria Police Force has narrated how its operatives in Ogun State rescued the abducted wife of a former Assistant Inspector General of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, who was abducted at her residence in the Arepo area of the state ...
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