Month: October 2024
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How To Apply for New Contactless Passport Application System
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced plans to launch a phased contactless passport renewal system, which will start from Canada on November 1, 2024. This initiative, designed to simplify and modernise the passport renewal process, allows Nigerians to apply for passport renewals online, reducing the need for in-person visits to NIS offices. Following Canada,…
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Marketers Give Reasons For Not Patronizing Dangote Refinery
At the backdrop of a fresh controversy over lifting of petrol from Dangote Refinery, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, has said it is still negotiating with the refinery on terms for the lifting. President of the Refibery, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has alleged that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, along with…
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Just In: TCN Restores Electricity To North
Punch Newspaper The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has announced a partial restoration of power to seven states in the northern region of the country affected by the vandalisation of the Shiroro-Kaduna transmission line. The states include Lafia, Makurdi, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi, and Gombe States. It electricity was restored to the area as of…
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Things To Know About Newly Appointment Acting Chief of Army Staff
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday approved the appointment of Major General Olufemi Olatubosun Oluyede as the acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS). The Special Adviser to the president on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement said Oluyede will hold sway as the COAS pending the return of Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja,…
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Everything You Need To Know About Nov. 5 U.S Election
Nearly 186.5 million Americans are eligible to vote for the November 5 election to choose the 47th president of the United States. The presidential race is not the only one on the ballot. Americans will also elect people to fill various federal, state and local positions. Georgians protest to denounce ruling party win in elections.…
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Suspended RCCG Pastor Accused of Homosexuality Breaks Silence
Suspended Pastor , at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG),Ayorinde AdeBello has down-rightly denied allegations of homosexuality. The allegations led to his suspension, along with another pastor, as announced in an RCCG memo dated October 28, 2024. The memo, signed by Sunday Akande, RCCG’s national overseer, ordered a thorough investigation into the allegations and…
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What American President Discussed With Tinubu in 30-Minute Phone Call
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has received a called from President of the United States, Mr Joe Biden. The call which took place at about 4pm, Nigerian time lasted for about 30 minutes. This was disclosed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, while briefing state House Correspondents about the development. The discussion centered…
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BoI Opens Application Portal for FG’s N75bn MSME Fund (Apply Here)
The Bank of Industry (BoI) on Monday announced the opening of its application portal for would-be beneficiaries the Federal Government’s N75billion Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Intervention Fund. The Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI) lauded the FG for the intervention programme, describing it as lifeline for Nigerian MSMEs. A representative of the…
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Polytechnic Lecturers Defer Nationwide Strike, Announces New Date
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has deferred its nationwide strike till December 2nd, 2024 to allow the Federal Government to meet its existing demands. Recall that ASUP had on October 7 issued a two weeks ultimatum to government asking it to meet the existing demands some of which bordered on alleged intrusion of…
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DSS clears ministerial nominees as Senate begins screening
The Senate will today screen the Ministerial nominees forwarded to it for confirmation by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Vanguard gathered that the nominees who have been cleared by the Department of State Services, DSS, besieged the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Senator Basheer Lado to submit their curriculum Vitae…