The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government will do away with petroleum subsidies by June 2023. Mrs Ahmed said this on Tuesday in Abuja, during a press conference to mark the end of the 28th National Economic Summit, NES. The fuel subsidy gulped …
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The Federal Government has distributed interest-free loans to 828 entrepreneurs on Tuesday in Bayelsa under its Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme 2.0 (GEEP 2.0) scheme. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouq, said beneficiaries were entitled to between N50,000 and N300,000.She added that they needed no …
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The federal government has said that lecturers who just resumed academic activities after an 8-month strike, should not expect complete payment of their salaries as they cannot be paid for work not done. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, expressed Federal Government’s position on the renewed face-off with ASUU after the …
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The exchange rate between the naira and the US dollar fell further for the second day in a row on Wednesday, 16th November 2022, closing at N800/$1. The exchange rate depreciated by 2.56% in contrast to N780/$1 recorded at the close of trading on Tuesday. This is according to information …
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British inflation has accelerated to the highest level for 41 years, driven by soaring energy, food, and transport prices in a worsening cost-of-living crisis, official data showed Wednesday. The Consumer Prices Index hit 11.1 percent in October, reaching the highest level since 1981, the Office for National Statistics said in …
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A South African man, Themba Tom Ntuli has taken to Facebook to brag about his wife for paying part of their bills. “I am married to a woman who says to me; Baby you have paid for the tickets, please let me pay for our food,” he wrote.Baby you have …
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Bishop Matthew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese has cautioned loyalists of politicians not to kill themselves in demonstrating support for their candidates. According to the septuagenarian priest, opposition politicians are friends jostling for their piece of the national cake and shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Kukah spoke on …
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The Niger state police command has arrested a 24-year-old man parading himself as a medical doctor. Confirming the arrest of the suspect identified as Clement Joseph, Police spokesman Abiodun Wasiu said he reportedly operates an illegal clinic in the Koropka area of the state.Clement was also charged with raping four girls, impregnating one …
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Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle with 40 US states for misleading users about the collection of personal location data, making it the largest attorney general-led consumer privacy settlement ever, according to the US Department of Justice. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who led the settlement along …
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the prayer by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s prayer as prophetic.PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, in a statement Tuesday, also insisted that the APC candidate is ineligible to contest the 2023 presidential election.Tinubu …
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