INSECURITY: DIGITAL SOLUTIONS WELL ON COURSE, SAYS DEFENCE MINISTER

Nigeria is sustaining the induction of digital technological devices in the Military Campaigns against insecurity plaguing parts of the Nation’s territorial integrity. The Minister of Defense, Maj Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) gave this assurance in a remark at the graduation lecture for Course 28 participants, National Defence College, Abuja. The Defence Minister, represented by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of …

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School feeding during lockdown cost N523.3m: Sadiya Farouq

The Nigerian Government spent about N523.3 million on school feeding programme during the lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (MHADMSD), Sadiya Farouq, disclosed this at the Presidential Taskforce briefing on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja. Farouk made the revelation against the rumours and speculations going around one of the key interventions of …

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Stamp Duty: Union Urges FG To Wade Into FIRS, NIPOST Feud

The Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies (SSASCGOC) has urged the federal government to immediately convene a stakeholders’ meeting to address the controversies on which agency should produce and sell stamp duty. The meeting, according to the union should include, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST), SSASCGOC, ministry of Finance, and ministry …

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Shoprite Quits Nigeria

South African Company, Shoprite Holdings Limited, says it will auction off its outlets in Nigeria, The PUNCH has learnt. This is coming about 15 years after it opened its first store in Lagos in December 2005. The megastore company with presence in most Nigerian cities hinged this decision on the coronavirus pandemic which has disrupted major businesses globally. In an …

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Ebenezer Obey, 78 To Remarry Soon

Juju music maestro, Evangelist Ebenezer Obey says he is set to remarry very soon. Obey, who lost his wife in 2011, said he would soon get married, but not to a younger woman. In an interview with the Nation, he said the companionship of a wife is a good thing and not against God’s rule. “So, I am here, I …

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Don’t Reopen Churches Now -Bakare

Pastor Tunde Bakare, the serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), has warned against the reopening of churches as directed by the Lagos State Government. During his online sermon on Sunday, he urged Christians not to let any religious leader or government official, to lead them like a sheep to the slaughterhouse. “I have to appeal to you …

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Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan beats coronavirus

Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan said Sunday he had been discharged from hospital, three weeks after being admitted with “mild” coronavirus symptoms after testing positive for the disease. The news came as powerful Indian Home Minister Amit Shah revealed he had tested positive for coronavirus, which is infecting tens of thousands of people a day — and killing hundreds — in …

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Lagos to reopen worship centres August 7

Worship centres in Lagos State have gotten the green light to reopen from August 7 Vanguard reports. Announcing the directive at a briefing on Saturday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said, “Places of worship in Lagos will now be opened from Friday, the 7th of August for our Muslim worshippers, and on Sunday, the 9th of August for our Christian worshippers.” “We …

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