Archive for date: March 22nd, 2023

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is billed to commence a nationwide strike on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Joe Ajaero, the NLC president, gave the directive at a media briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, March 22. He also directed that affiliate unions constituting the NLC should be on standby for...

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The President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, has travelled to Paris in France to rest and plan his transition programme. His spokesman, Tunde Rahman, in a statement on Wednesday, March 22, said Tinubu left the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State for Europe on Tuesday night. “After a very exhaustive...

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Alex Otti, the candidate of the Labour Party winner of the March 18 governorship poll in Abia state. The Returning Officer in the state, Professor Nnenna Oti, made the announcement on Wednesday evening, March 22, 2023. Otti polled a total of...

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President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has asked those who did not win in the just concluded general elections to “have a large heart for tolerance and respect for the greater interest of the nation.” Tinubu said this in a statement released on the official website of Tinubu/Shettima campaign on Tuesday,...

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The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has apologised to Nigerians for the rise in failed electronic banking transactions since the implementation of the Naira redesign policy. Speaking at an event in Abuja on Tuesday, March 21, Emefiele said the apex’s bank payments system management...

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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the exemption of the telecommunications sector from the proposed five percent excise duty. The minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami, disclosed this on Tuesday, March 21, at a news conference organised by the presidential review committee on excise duty in Abuja. “I...

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Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin of the popular Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry in Warri, Delta State, has disclosed the reason fire g¥tted his church auditorium on Tuesday morning, March 21. The fire which started at about 11 AM d£§troyed properties worth millions of Naira. It was gathered that the inferno started...

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Nigeria has ranked 95th happiest nation in the world and sixth in Africa, with 4.981 points, according to the latest edition of the World Happiness Report. The report was released on Monday, March 20, by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network as part of the United Nations’ International Day of...

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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday night, March 21, filed a petition to challenge the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. Atiku, in the petition marked: CA/PEPC/05/2023 filed...

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