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By NewsBits The Enugu State governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has said his administration would earmark high allocation to the education sector in the state even as he assured support for the Nigerian Law School in the areas of new infrastructure and rehabilitation of the existing dilapidated structures in the school. Governor Mbah gave the assurances, Monday, when the senior management staff of the Enugu Campus of the Nigerian Law School led by the Deputy Director General (DDG), Mrs. Maureen Stanley-Idum, paid a courtesy visit in his office at the Government…

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By NewsBits The governor of Kano State, Mr Abba Yusuf who was sacked yesterday by the election tribunal is expressing optimism that the judgment will be reversed. The embattled Yusuf was elected on the platform of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). Recall that the three-man election tribunal headed by Justice Oluyemi Akintan-Osadebay yesterday nullified the governor’s election and declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Nasir Gawuna, as the winner of the March 2023 governorship election held in the state. According to the judge, the ballot…

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By NewsBits The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Monday handed over relief materials to the Enugu State government for onward distribution to victims of 2022 floods. The relief materials were handed over to the Enugu State Emergency Management Agency (ESMA). They included 1,200 (10kg) bags of rice, 1,200 (10kg) bags of beans, 1,200 (10kg) bags of garri, and 250 (20 litres) kegs of vegetable oil. Others were 250 cartons of seasoning cubes, 300 cartons of spaghetti, 250 cartons of tomato paste and 100 bags of iodised salt. Non-food items…

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By NewsBits The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a suspect, Olumuyiwa, in connection with a case of missing chickens on a farm. The missing chickens were said to be worth N8million. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Odutola said the suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged by the director of the farm simply identified as Bamgbose. She explained that the director noted that when chickens on the farm were tallied, over 1,300 chickens worth N8m could not be accounted…

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By NewsBits The meeting of Chiefs of Staff from the ECOWAS bloc countries was scheduled to be held in Ghana’s capital Accra, on Saturday, August 12, 12023. But regional military sources had said on Friday that the summit has been suspended indefinitely for “technical reasons”. The sources added that the meeting was originally set up to inform the organisation’s leaders about “the best options” for activating and deploying the ECOWAS standby force. This development followed the regional body’s resolution to muster its standby force for possible deployment in Niger to…

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The Labour Party (LP) and its standard bearer in the last presidential election, Peter Obi, have kicked against the offer of board slots to state governors, including those elected on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Labour Party (LP), by President Bola Tinubu. Kwara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, disclosed at a meeting of the forum in Abuja on Tuesday night that the President asked the governors to nominate competent persons to serve in the boards and parastatals of Federal…

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By Tony Adibe One of the contestants for the traditional rulership throne of Akama-Oghe Autonomous Community in Ezeagu local government area of Enugu State, Chief Christian Akpata, has called for an investigation into the failed assassination attempts on his life. NewsBits learnt that the assassination attempts, which happened twice, caused the destruction of one his cars which was riddled with bullets, during when he was said to have sustained gunshot injuries. It was gathered that on May 9, 2023, some men in tricycle and Camry car had trailed him from…

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In line with efforts to reposition the Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) Industry, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed by the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria, ARCON and the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, NIMN is set to take off with a joint training program schedule to hold next month. The program theme: “Integrated Marketing Communications” is billed to hold from April 12 to 13, 2023 at the L’eola Hotel Maryland, Lagos. In exclusive interview with Marketing Edge, Dr. Olalekan Fadolapo Director General of the Advertising Regulatory Agencies of Nigeria,…

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Two members of the House of Representatives in Ondo State, Tajudeen Adefisoye representing Ifedore/Idanre and Gboluga Ikengboju representing Irele/Okitipupa constituencies, have lost their seats in the National Assembly. They were defeated in the last Saturday elections held in the state. Adefisoye is of the ruling All Progressive Congress while lkengboju is of the People’s Democratic Party. In the result released by INEC, Adefisoye scored 20,064 against his opponent in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Festus Akingbaso, who polled 24,263. Jimi Odimayo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 44,638 to…

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