Year: 2024
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U.S Secret Service Reacts To Shooting At Trump’s Campaign Rally
The U.S. Secret Service has confirmed that former President Donald Trump is safe following a shooting incident at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. The Secret Service spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, issued a statement on the event that occurred while Trump was delivering a speech before a crowd of supporters. “An incident occurred the…
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President Tinubu Announces Appointment of 10 Individuals into Federal Agencies (Full List)
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of new leaders for 10 federal agencies and a national project. On Saturday, Ajuri Ngelale, presidential spokesperson, announced the appointments in a series of press statements. Some of the appointments are subject to senate confirmation. ADEYANJU TO HEAD NLTF Tinubu appointed Tosin Adeyanju as the new executive…
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JUST IN: Fire Guts Emir Sanusi’s Palace in Kano
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20 States with local government caretaker committees (FULL LIST)
Most states governors have resorted to governing their respective local governments through caretaker committees as against the duly elected chairmen that supposed to oversee the affairs of their people. This is contrary to Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which guarantees the system of local government by democratically elected officials. Caretaker committees have…
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Tinubu and the “Yoruba Emir” of Kano by Farooq A. Kperogi
The contest for royal supremacy between Muhammad Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero took an explicitly ethnic turn a few days ago when Hashim Dungurawa, the Kano State chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was protecting Bayero from deposition and humiliation by Kano’s NNPP government because of Bayero’s…
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Gunmen Abduct Polytechnic Rector, Others, Demand N70 Million Ransom
Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, have abducted three staff members including the acting Rector of the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, Dr. Emmanuel Barki. According to a report, Barki, two other management staff of the institution and their driver were kidnapped on their way to Ugbokolo after an official assignment in Makurdi, the state capital, on…
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Building Collapse: Plateau Govt Confirms 22 Death, 132 Injured Persons
The Plateau State Government has confirmed 22 deaths and 132 injured persons, from the Jos collapsed school building. Mr Musa Ashoms, the commissioner for Information, said six of the injured were in critical condition. Ashoms said that those njured were receiving treatment in various tertiary health facilities in the state, while the bodies of the…
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Just In: Corp members escape death as NYSC hostel collapses in Ekiti
Some Corps members deployed to Ekiti State narrowly escaped death on Friday morning when the wall of the female hostel of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, camp collapsed on them. The corp members recuperating in the clinic inside the orientation camp were said to have been rescued by their male counterparts who retrieved them from…
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LG Autonomy:Rivers, Kano, Anambra 17 Other States That Will Not Receive LG Allocations From July
The Federal Government will from July withhold local government allocations to Cross River, Enugu, Kano, Rivers, and 16 other states in compliance with the Supreme Court judgement. The apex court on Thursday delivered a judgment in the local government autonomy suit filed by the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, on behalf…
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‘Why LGs have not escaped powerful clasp of governors’
If state governors were birds of prey and local governments (LGs) their hapless victims, then there are indications that yesterday’s Supreme Court verdict might not have entirely set the latter free. In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court had declared it is unconstitutional for state governors to withhold funds meant for local government (LG) administrations.…