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Don’t embezzle Ogoni Water Project Funds, MOSOP warns HYPREP; Accuses agency of corruption

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has cautioned the HydroCarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), the agency responsible for the management of the Ogoni cleanup, against embezzling the Ogoni water project funds recently approved by Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari. President of MOSOP, Fegalo Nsuke, made the call …

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Senate names Chairmen of zonal public hearings, states position on Constitution Review; Wants maximum punishment for rail line vandals 

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the National Assembly holds no predetermined position on any issue of interest to Nigerians ahead of moves to amend the 1999 Constitution. Lawan made this known during plenary on Wednesday, in his remarks after reading a letter signed by the Chairman …

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Diette-Spiff, Twon Brass Monarch, flees as protesting Agip host community in Bayelsa persists

The Twon Brass community in Bayelsa, hosts to Agip’s Crude Export Terminal, has continued ongoing protests against lingering power outage in the settlement and shunned entreaties from the Monarch, King Alfred Diette-Spiff. The people alleged that the monarch was complicit in several efforts by Agip to shortchange the community and …

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President Buhari assures investors of stable fiscal policies, urges more training, employment of youths  

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Paris, France, urged investors to further explore vast opportunities of human and natural resources in Nigeria, while assuring that fiscal policies will be more favourable, predictable and measurably tilted towards creating harmonious business environment. The President held meetings with Chairman/CEO of Total, Patrick Pouyanne, Executive …

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Senate considers bill to prohibit ransom payment to kidnappers …proposes 15 years imprisonment for defaulters

The Senate on Wednesday considered a bill that seeks to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or wrongfully confined. The Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which scaled second reading during plenary is sponsored by Senator Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi, the senator representing Imo east …

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Emefiele faults claims of imbalance in agric interventions …Tasks stakeholders on food security

ADO-EKITI The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has faulted claims in certain quarters suggesting that the Bank’s targeted interventions in the agricultural sector are tilted in favour of a certain section of the country. Mr. Emefiele made the clarification in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Tuesday, May …

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