Month: February 2024
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Full List of 66th Grammy Awards Winners
Punch Newspaper Nigerian artistes, Davido, Burna Boy, Ayra Starr, Asake, and Olamide were all nominated for the 66th Grammy Awards. Burna Boy, who bagged four nominations, was joined by Davido, who earned three nominations in his debut. Asake, Arya Starr, and Olamide got one nomination apiece. They were all nominated in the maiden Best African…
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Youth Minister Speaks On Raising Corps Members’ Allowance
Channels TV The Minister of Youth Development, Jamila Bio-Ibrahim, says it is not certain that the Federal Government will increase the monthly allowance of serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Bio-Ibrahim, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, said the government would find innovative ways of ensuring that corps…
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After Spending Seven Days in Captivity, Abducted Ekiti Pupils Regain Freedom
The Nation Newspaper After seven days in captivity, pupils and staff of Apostolic Faith Group School, Emure have been freed by abductors. Those regained their freedom include five students and three staff of the school while the driver identified as Taye Rasaki was killed by the dare-devil kidnappers. The gunmen on Monday ambushed a bus…
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President Tinubu Redefines Priorities, Goes Tough on Ministers’ Performance
The Nation Newspaper Determined to deliver the dividends of democracy, President Bola Tinubu has redefined the priorities of his administration. He has placed premium on security for peace, food security, infrastructure, education, health, and social investment. Ministers and heads of agencies have also submitted lists of deliverables and timelines which will be monitored monthly and…
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Just In: APC’s Laguda Wins Surulere Bye-Election, To Replace Gbajabiamila
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the Surulere Federal Constituency 1 Bye-Election. Declaring the results, the Returning Officer for the bye-election, Prof Simeon Adebayo, revealed that the APC Candidate scored a total of 11, 203 votes. Laguda, a former chairman of the All…
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Influential Northern Senator Under Security Watch Over Rising Kidnapping, Terrorism
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CBN Governor, Finance Minister, EFCC Boss Make Move To Save Falling Naira
The Nation Newspaper The Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, yesterday met with CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman Ola Olukoyede to strategise on stabilising the beleaguered currency. This occurred on a day the naira sustained its rally against the dollar, closing at N1,440…
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CAF Revealed Monetary Rewards For Winners, Runners-up, Others
The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has revealed the financial rewards for participating nations at the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations tournament (AFCON prize money) in Cote d’Ivoire. The winner of AFCON 2023 will take home $7 million for lifting the trophy. The runners-up will pocket $4 million. The two losing semi-finalists (two teams)…
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Naira Rebounds as Banks Offload Excess Dollars
Punch Newspaper Ahead of the midnight February 1, 2024 deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria to commercial banks to sell all excess foreign exchange holdings, Deposit Money Banks on Thursday made frantic efforts to offload their surplus dollar stocks. It was learnt that the treasury departments of the DMBs spent the entire day…
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EFCC Makes Clarification Over Religious Sect Laundered Billions of Naira For Terrorists
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has clarified that the religious sect that was revealed by its Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, to have been indicted for money laundering is neither a church nor a mosque. Olukoyede had revealed that the anti-graft agency traced the sum of N7bn, suspected to be part of N30bn money laundering,…