Year: 2020
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Business and Economy
Nigeria securing more sea time for Cadets despite COVID-19 …NSDP progressing as planned – Jamoh
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has made significant progress in securing sea time berths for cadets trained…
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Health
Recruitment: Zulum approves 594 doctors, nurses, others for Borno hospitals
… Okays annual course for 200 more … To increase doctors, nurses quarters Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the…
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Fuel: The day of reckoning is here By Louis Odion, FNGE
It is a factual error to conflate the subsidy uprising of 2012 and the crisis of 2020. True, both speak…
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Health
COVID-19: Ekiti Primary, Secondary schools reopen Sept. 21; Tertiary institutions resume Oct. 2
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has announced September 21 date for reopening of primary and secondary schools in the…
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Lead Story
Global acclaim as Nigeria’s Muhammad-Bande bows out as UN General Assembly President; What COVID-19 taught us – PGA
By Harrison Arubu United Nations, Sept. 14, 2020 Outgoing President of the United Nations General Assembly (PGA), Ambassador Tijani Muhammad-Bande,…
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Agencies in the presidency hold 2021 budget consultations
Federal government agencies in the Presidency have held consultations for the 2021 budget. The Permanent Secretary, State House, Mr Tijjani…
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Local
Neymar, 4 others sent off as Marseille grab rare win at PSG
Paris, Sept. 13, 2020 Olympique Marseille earned a smash-and-grab 1-0 win at Ligue 1 champions Paris St-Germain (PSG) on Sunday…
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Local
Release Opeyemi Owatimeyin now! By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com Reports making the rounds on social media are to the effect that one Opeyemi Owatimeyin has been whisked into…
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Arts & Entertainment
Obi congratulates Prof Florence Obi on emergence as UNICAL’s First Female VC
Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has rejoiced with…
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Local
State of the Nation: Secondus commends Obasanjo, Elders; Berates Presidency; Says free, fair election in Edo not negotiable
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has commended former President Olusegun Obasanjo and some…
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Local
Edo: Where two wrongs make a right By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 362 1058 The much talked-about Edo State governorship election comes up next Saturday, 19th September, 2020. The run…
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Local
Edo 2020: PDP alerts on Tinubu, APC’s plot to rig, buy votes with N300m
The Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Campaign Council has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by the National…
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Presidency attacks Obasanjo, says he’s Nigeria’s Divider-in-Chief
The Nigerian Presidency has unleashed a blistering counter-attack on former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying that he is the ‘Divider-in-Chief’ of…
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PREMIUM TIMES uncovers massive referral kickback scam of Nigerian doctors, hospitals, diagnostic centres
A PREMIUM TIMES investigation has exposed a massive referral kickback scheme showing how the country’s top diagnostic service providers, medical…
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President Buhari focused on nation building and unity of Nigeria By FEMI ADESINA
To state that we live in challenging times is perhaps an understatement and does very little justice in accurately capturing…
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Africa
Falana drags FG, Kano to African Commission over death sentence on Kano singer
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria Femi Falana has petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights…
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Local
SERAP sues Lawan, Gbajabiamila over ‘failure to publish details of corruption probes’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of…
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Local
Ex-Bayelsa Information Commissioner buries wife amid tears
Sympathisers trooped out at the weekend in Yenagoa to mourn the demise of the wife of the former Bayelsa Commissioner…
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Health
A’ Ibom Information boss conscripts traditional rulers into anti-COVID – 19 war; Says ”No sitting on fence”
By Dennis Udoma, Uyo Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Ini Ememobong has taken the enlightenment campaign…
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Local
Deregulation: NNPC to support deployment of Compressed Natural Gas facilities
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has pledged to support ongoing initiatives by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to provide…
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Amaechi pays tributes to late brother, Dede Charles Amaechi; Sylva, Buni, Lalong, Jamoh, others attend burial
Minister of Transportation, Rt.Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has paid glowing tributes to his late older brother Dede Charles Amaechi (Oha)…
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Business and Economy
NDDC cries out: Those planning protest in London against us want $3million
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has cried out, that a planned protest against it in London, the United Kingdom,…
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Local
Constitution Review Committee gives two-week extension for submission of memoranda; Deadline now Sept. 25
In response to appeals by stakeholders from various parts of the Federation, the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of…
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Lead Story
Obasanjo-led coalition says Nigeria is on the brink
Southern and Northern leaders of Nigeria have come together, led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to pull the country back…
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Local
Makinde not spending Oyo’s money on party politics-CPS …says gov running Oyo with ingenuity
….State’s anti-corruption agency to launch soon The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Mr Taiwo Adisa,…
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