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Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatization and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu, has condemned in strong terms the killing of soldiers at a checkpoint in Aba on Thursday morning. Describing the incident as “wicked, evil and unacceptable,” Kalu called on security agencies to fish out the perpetrators of the ugly act, noting that…
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A member of the Presidential Economic Coordination Council, Bismark Rewane, has raised the alarm over the skyrocketing cost of tomatoes in Nigeria. Within a year, the price of tomatoes increased from ₦40,000 to ₦150,000 per basket. Rewane, who is also the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, made the statement on Wednesday…
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The Federal Government has once again received more voluntary returnees from Sudan amid the ongoing crisis in the country. The voluntary returnees, who arrived via Ethiopian Airlines at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja yesterday, were received by the Federal Commissioner for the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons, Tijani Ahmed.…
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The police in Bauchi state have arrested a 49-year-old father accused of attempting to sell his 5-year-old daughter for N1.5 million. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Auwal Muhammad, disclosed this on Thursday in Bauchi at a news conference. Muhammad said the suspect, who claimed to be a staff member of Warji Local Government…
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The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has said that most people he helped to power during the 2023 general elections now avoid him.
