Year: 2022
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Business and Economy
Dangote Sugar Refinery restates commitment to FG’s backward integration policy
…Rewards Shareholders with N12.147bn Dividend Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has restated its commitment to the achievement of Sugar Backward integration…
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Business and Economy
Dangote Sugar Refinery restates commitment to FG’s backward integration policy
…Rewards Shareholders with N12.147bn Dividend Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has restated its commitment to the achievement of Sugar Backward integration…
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Business and Economy
N700bn spill compensation: Shell heads to Appeal Court to challenge jurisdiction
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has challenged the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court in Yenagoa to hear a…
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Health
Bridging gap in Nigeria’s health sector beyond COVID-19 pandemic By Fabian Ekeruche
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) describes the COVID-19 pandemic as a defining global health crisis of our time…
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Agriculturalist calls for recycling of organic wastes into fertilizer
A Professor of Soil Fertility and Organic Agriculture, Prof James Adediran, has called for recycling of organic wastes into fertilizer.…
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Police arrests 154 suspects for various crimes in Borno; Nabs 80-yr-old for alleged rape of minor
By Hamza Suleiman Maiduguri, June 15, 2022 The Borno Police Command has arrested no fewer than 154 suspects for various…
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Buhari presides over FEC meeting; 109 e-Learning Centres for primary education approved
By Ismaila Chafe Abuja, June 15, 2022 The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N964 million for the provision of…
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Labour Party embarks on massive rural mobilisation in Enugu State
By Benson Ezugwu Enugu, June 15, 2022 The Labour Party (LP), Enugu State chapter has directed Local Government Executives of…
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Police rescue 35 underage girls from sex slavery in Anambra
By Chimezie Anaso Awka, June 15, 2022 Police in Anambra have rescued 35 teenagers aged between 14 years and 17…
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Local
Yobe North Senatorial District: Group lauds Machina for ‘refusing to step down for Lawan’
By Nabilu Balarabe Damaturu, June 15, 2022 The Yobe All Progressives Congress (APC) Zone C Concerned Stakeholders, have expressed support…
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Abaribe resigns as Minority Leader
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing Abia South Senatorial District, has formally resigned his position as Minority Leader of the Senate. His…
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Professor Femi Soyinka is dead
Professor Femi Soyinka Acclaimed academic, researcher and former Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University,…
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Business and Economy
Dangote Cement Shareholders up dividend by 25% to N20 per share
Shareholders of Dangote Cement Plc yesterday commended the Management of the company for an impressive performance despite the economic challenges…
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Senate to honour Ejiro, brave tanker driver for averting catastrophe
…. Recommends him to Buhari for national honours The Senate has resolved to honour Ejiro Otarigho, the brave tanker driver…
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Business and Economy
SEC DG, Yuguda, Garba Kurfi, others to examine progress of Nigeria’s Financial Inclusion Initiative at Oriental News Nigeria Confab
The Director General, DG, of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Lamido Yuguda, will lead key financial sector experts and…
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Local
Walter Rodney inspires us at HOMEF – Environmentalist
By Nathan Nwakamma Yenagoa, June 15, 2022 The Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Dr Nnimmo Bassey, on Tuesday…
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Arts & Entertainment
Abia blogger offers scholarships to 9 pupils
By Leonard Okachie Umuahia, June 14, 2022 An Umuahia-based social media practitioner, Mr Ifeanyi Okali, has offered scholarships to nine…
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Health
WHO to rename Monkeypox; Meets June 23 to determine if disease is International Emergency
By Cecilia Ologunagba New York, June 14, 2022 World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is working with partners on renaming…
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Education
Sultan Foundation trains Sokoto students on gender, social norms
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto The Sultan Foundation for Peace and Development with support from EU-UN Spotlight Initiative and UN Women,…
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Health
BUA donates borehole to Sokoto community; Drugs to 8 clinics
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto In continuation of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the BUA Cement Company, Sokoto plant has donated…
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Local
Popular columnist, Michael Olusesan Awe (Michael West) dies
Popular columnist, Michael Olusesan Awe (a k a Michael West) has died. According to a statement by Israel Ayo Awe,…
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Local
Kidnapped Anglican Bishop, wife, driver regain freedom
By Suleiman Shehu Ibadan, June 14,2022 The Abducted Bishop, Rt. Rev. Aderogba Adeyinka of Jebba Anglican Diocese, his wife and…
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Local
Gunmen kill 2 businessmen in Aba, Abia
By Ijendu Iheaka Aba (Abia) June 14, 2022 Gunmen killed two young businessmen in Aba, Abia on Tuesday. Police spokesman…
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Local
Who wins Ekiti governorship polls – II By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 D-Day is here! The Ekiti governorship election is a few days away! Who wins the polls?…
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