-Anietie Udobit, Abuja Former Managing Director of World Bank and Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has joined other Nigerians and global community to celebrate the emergence of Dr Akinwumi Adesina as the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate. Dr Okonjo-Iweala and Nigeria’s Chargé d’Affaires to the U.S. Hakeem Balogun in the
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IGWEBUIKE TIMES Anietie Udobit followed the plot, execution and after execution of this interesting Coup. Senator Bukola Saraki on Tuesday June 9, 2015 emerged the Senate President of the 8th National Assembly against the wishes of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party that presented him as candidate
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-theguardian Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies have tabled 13 demands on Qatar, including the closure of the Qatar-funded broadcaster al-Jazeera, as the price for lifting a two-week trade and diplomatic embargo of the country. The list of demands, obtained by Associated Press, marks another escalation in the Gulf’s worst diplomatic dispute
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-Yahoo News The White House Thursday addressed the joint intelligence report that found Russia had attempted to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, more than five months after the report’s conclusions were made public. First, on Twitter, President Trump dismissed the concerns about Russia as a “big Dem HOAX” and suggested
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Anietie Udobit,Monica Omachi The Nigerian National Assembly has refused to set aside one percent of combined revenue for the health sector as statutorily required, until it is sure of sensible and transparent payout of the fund. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, revealed this
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-Monica Omachi, Abuja Ondo State Government has called on residents in the state to increase on their personal and environmental cleanliness to prevent more occurrence of Lassa fever. The Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Health, Dr Taiye Oni, made this call on Thursday in a statement made available to newsmen
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Oru Leonard,Abuja The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani has said that he was working in collaboration with the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma to ensure more budgetary allocation for the East-West Road project. Usani stated this at a meeting with the Managing Director of
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-Yahoo News Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., on Wednesday sharply condemned U.S. strikes on Syrian regime forces — like the shoot-down of a military jet over the weekend — as “completely illegal.” “I think the military action that is being taken against Syrian government assets is completely illegal,” Kaine said in an interview
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Arochukwu is once more associated with pain and sorrow- the pain of families who have been denied access to other parts of the world, the burden of being left to their fate because the road linking Arochukwu to Ohafia, other parts of the state, and the country is impassable. IBIM
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There has been much trouble since the swearing in of President Jonathan on May 29, 2011; a problem which was foreseen by so many prior to that date. Some politicians have live to regret the day Goodluck Jonathan had that Goodluck to become the president. The tension is high again,
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