President Muhammadu Buhari has decided to visit some of the states that witnessed violence recently for the purpose of on-the-spot assessment of the situation. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Monday. Adesina said Buhari would
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All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked reports that the party headquarters in Abuja was raided by anti-graft operatives. This was contained in a statement on Friday by, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, APC National Publicity Secretary. It reads: “Our attention has been drawn to syndicated fake news published in some sections of the media
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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) is set to embark on indefinite strike beginning from Monday, following a stalemate in the peace meeting the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Emmanuel Kachikwu, brokered between the union and Neconde Energy Limited. PENGASSAN and Neconde have been embroiled in
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President Muhammadu Buhari is to participate alongside over 50 world leaders in the One Planet Summit in Paris, France, on December 12. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. He said that the summit was jointly being organised
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ANIETIE UDOBIT, ABUJA The Board and Management of Benthel Multimedia Ltd, publishers of UNITY TIMES, has announced the former Nigeria Vice president Alhaji Atiku as Keynote Speaker for 2017 UNITY TIMES Annual Lecture Series holding on Tuesday October 31. The announcement was made in a statement by the Company Chief Executive Officer,
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ANIETIE UDOBIT, ABUJA The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission,NERC has fined Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company plc, IEDC a sum of N50m, and directed the company to recover the sum of N5.7bn being the balance of the inappropriate loan of N6bn granted by the utility to IEDMG, the core investor in Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company
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PRESS RELEASE As part of activities lined up to mark this year’s World Post Day Celebration, NIPOST is launching new products which include the repackaged almost-extinct Postal and Money orders to be available on line for the use of the public. NIPOST in its renewed efforts at bringing the postal service at
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By JAMES EZEMA An amalgamation of coalition of civil society organisations has urged the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, to first finish his many defamation legal battles in courts before opening a new legal war front with Nigerian oil magnate, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Sir Emeka Offor. The groups, under the Joint
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By CHRIS EKEKE Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has countered the assertion that the state Chief Judges lack constitutional powers to pardon or grant amnesty to prisoners. Sebastine Hon (SAN) had stated on Monday that “The practice of chief judges, particularly of the states, granting pardon or amnesty to offenders has been going on for quite
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The Federal Government has issued another directive to the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government to immediately resume the conduct of the Focus Workshop on the Operationalization of the Executive Order No. 001, 2017 on the Promotion of Transparency and Efficiency in the Business Environment beginning from Wednesday 30th August 2017 or
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