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Naira Gains Massive Strength Against U.S Dollar at Parallel Market
Daily Trust The value of dollar to naira fell sharply, on Friday, with the local currency exchanging below N1000 in the parallel market. This is the first time in over a month that the local currency would gain remarkable strength since it exchanged above N1000. This happened in the midst of intervention from the Central…
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Ajaero: NLC, TUC list conditions to avoid nationwide strike Nov 8
The Nation Newspaper The organised labour has listed some conditions that must be met to avoid a nationwide strike following the attack on the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, by suspected political thugs in Owerri, the Imo state capital. Labour said it could not guarantee industrial harmony in the country from…
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Two Suspected Kidnappers Brutalized For Kidnapping Two Varsity Students
Two suspected kidnappers, Brian Ombasa Omoso, 25 and Humphrey Hinga, 22, were brutalized for abductiing two tertiary level students in Kitengela, Machakos County, Kenya. The Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) in a statement on Thursday, November 2, 2023, said the victims went missing on October 27, after being lured to their kidnappers’ den by a…
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Troops Rescue Two Abducted Corps Members
Troops of the Nigerian Army (NA) have rescued two corps members abducted by bandits in Yargoje community, Kankara LGA of Katsina state. In a statement on Friday, Onyema Nwachukwu, army spokesperson, said the corps members were abducted while travelling from Edo to Katsina where they had been posted. Nwachukwu said the rescue operation was conducted…
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OAU Vice Chancellor Sends Message To Victims of EFCC’s Raid
The Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, on Thursday, charged students who were victims of the raid of EFCC on Wednesday to put the experience behind them and move on with their lives. The Vice-Chancellor who made the charge in a statement by the institution spokesperson, Mr. Biodun…
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CBN Begins Clearing of Foreign Exchange Forward Backlog
The Cable News Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has started clearing the foreign exchange (FX) forwards backlog in banks. Payment commenced on Wednesday, a source in the apex bank told TheCable while confirming the development. On September 22, Wale Edun, the finance minister and coordinating minister of the economy, said the overdue forward payments were…
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Funds Budgeted For Presidential Yacht Transferred To Students Loan – Lawmaker
Chairman of the house of representatives committee on appropriations, Abubakar Bichi says the budget for the presidential yacht has been transferred to student loans. Bichi spoke on Thursday while briefing journalists after the passage of the supplementary budget. “As far as we are concerned we don’t have that presidential yacht anymore. We have increased the…
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OAU Management Finally Reacts To ‘Arrest’ of Students by EFCC
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State through its Public Relations Officer, Dr. Abiodun Olanrewaju in a telephone conversation with Association of Campus Journalist, ACJ-OAU’s Correspondent, disclosed the need for the University’s management to know the outcome of the incident before any official statement is issued to the public. He further made known…
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Minister Receives Education Roadmap To Address Problems Facing Sector
The Federal Government through the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, has received the Education Roadmap to address the problems in the sector and pledged to ensure that basic, secondary and tertiary education certificates are valued. The minister, who stated this while receiving the report on the Education Roadmap by the Committee members in Abuja,…
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58 Out of 69 OAU Students Arrested by EFCC Regains Freedom
Punch Newspaper The Economic Financial Crimes Commission has released 58 out of 69 students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, arrested earlier on Wednesday. The PUNCH earlier reported that the commission arrested no fewer than 70 students of the university.They were reportedly arrested by officials of the EFCC in a midnight raid on hostels…
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