Year: 2024
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Women, Children Weep In Video Of Captives Released By Bandits
Daily Trust Bandits have released a video showing the captives kidnapped from Maidabino town in the Danmusa local government area of Katsina state. On June 22, bandits in their numbers ransacked Maidabino, the third largest town in Danmusa, where they killed about nine people and abducted 50 others, mostly women and children. Reports said the…
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Reformist candidate Pezeshkian wins Iranian Presidential election
The Iranian Ministry of Interior announced the victory of candidate Masoud Pezeshkian in the Iranian presidential elections runoff, following the completion of vote counting in tens of thousands of polling stations across the country. According to the official figures from the Ministry, Pezeshkian received 16,384,403 votes, compared to 13,538,179 votes for conservative candidate Saeed Jalili,…
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Starmer Announces New Cabinet, as Mew FM Demands Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
Hours after securing historical win, Prime Minister, Keir Starmer kicked off introduction of his new cabinet. Britain’s head of state, King Charles III, on Friday officially appointed Labour leader Keir Starmer as prime minister at Buckingham Palace. A photograph released by the palace showed the monarch shaking hands with Starmer, whose party achieved a landslide…
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SSANU To Protest Nationwide, Threatens ‘Total’ Shutdown Of Varsities
Channels TV The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has threatened to shut down varsities across the nation and will on Tuesday protest country-wide to press home its demands. SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have been in talks with the Federal Government over the four months salary…
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Newly Elected UK PM Makes 10 Appointments
The Newly-elected UK Prime Minister, KeIr Starmer, has made his first set of appointments into the cabinet, BBC reports Friday. This follows his centre-left Labour Party’s landslide general election victory that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer arrived as the party’s first PM since Gordon Brown in 2010, and had been asked by King…
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President Tinubu Unveils N2trn Economic Stabilization Plan
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has unveiled a N2 trillion stabilization and advancement plan to the Presidential Economic Coordination Council (PECC). The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the inauguration of the PECC at the Presidential Villa on Thursday. PECC is made up…
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Niger Corps Members Get Cash Gift, 20 Cows, 600 Bags of Rice Promised by Governor Bago
The governor of Niger State, Umaru Bago, has delivered 600 bags of rice and 20 cows to the National Youth Service Corps members posted to the state. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the move was in fulfilment of the pledges he made to them on Tuesday at the swearing-in of the 2024 Batch…
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Appeal Court Nullifies Expulsion of 25 Rivers Lawmakers
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has nullified the expulsion of Martin Amaewhule and 24 others from the Rivers State House of Assembly by the Rivers State High Court. A three-member panel of the appellate court held that the lower court lacked the jurisdiction to grant the exparte order. The court held that Section 272(3)…
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Meet Nigerians Contesting for UK Parliamentary Seats
The Nation Newspaper The die is cast in the United Kingdom. Ninety eight political parties and their candidates are ready to test their popularity after five weeks of actual campaigns. Will this be the end of the Conservative Party’s 14-year rule? Or will the Labour Party be disappointed in the various pollsters and analysts who…
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JAMB Uncovers 3,000 Fake Graduates, Reveals Culprit Institutions Involved in Shoddy Admissions
, The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has raised the alarm that it’s uncovered 3,000 fake graduates in possession of illegal certificates across the country. The Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, who made this known in a report published in the board’s bulletin, said those involved were discovered to have never set foot within the four…