Day: June 8, 2023

Federal Government Declares June 12 Public Holiday

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The Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Bola Tinubu has declared Monday, June 12, 2023, Public Holiday in commemoration of this year’s Democracy Day celebration. The Permanent Secretary, Oluwatoyin Akinlade who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulates all Nigerians on this occasion. Nigeria’s democratic journey has, like in many other climes, encountered both stormy and smooth sails, but the ship of State, it’s institutions and most importantly, the Nigerian people have remained steadfast on the tenets of democratic governance. On this memorable occasion therefore, Nigerians…

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Aregbesola Seeks Forgiveness, Thanks Tinubu, Buhari For His Progress

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The immediate past Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, says President Bola Tinubu and his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, are his political benefactors. “I need to thank Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It was through him that I became a commissioner in Lagos State and a two-term governor in Osun,” Aregbesola said at a welcome party organised in his honour by his loyalists in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Wednesday June 7. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, appointed Aregbesola as Commissioner for Works, and Infrastructure in the state in 1999; a…

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Hadi Sirika And The Fraud Called Nigeria Air

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By Ikechukwu Amaechi Hadi Sirika won’t get the Diezani treatment. Unlike Diezani whose party lost power in 2015 mainly because of Goodluck Jonathan’s naivety, APC and its hardened apparatchik triumphed in 2023 and the fraud, impunity and hypocrisy will only get worse. Some people believe that Nigeria, our dear country, is a criminal enterprise. I agree. But those who perceive the political ideology construct – patriotism – from the prism of the three wise monkeys, a Japanese pictorial maxim, which embodies the proverbial principle of “see no evil, hear no…

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Iwuanyanwu Reconciles Various Igbo Groups With Ohanaeze

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By NewsBits President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has reconciled Igbo bishops, archbishops, “Anya Ndigbo’’ and other groups back to Ohanaeze Ndigbo mainframe to move the Southeast region forward. The declaration was made in a statement issued in Enugu on Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr Alex Ogbonnia. “Anya Ndigbo’’ is a socio-cultural group, also of southeast origin that had been having a faceoff with Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Church leaders and some other groups had in 2021 objected to the process that led to the emergence…

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Subsidy: NLC Reacts To Ruling Of National Industrial Court

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By NewsBits The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has rejected the ruling of the National Industrial Court, NIC, favouring the Federal Government against the interest of the masses and workers in the country. Mr Joe Ajaero, NLC President said this in a communique jointly signed with Mr Emmanuel Ugboaja, General Secretary of the Congress at the end of an emergency National Executive Council, NEC, meeting on Tuesday in Abuja. It said that the NEC meeting was called to discuss the outcome of the dialogue between the NLC and the Federal Government…

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