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•Policemen The chairman of Ward 3 of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Fugar, Estako Central Local Government Area of Edo State, Julius Bello, has reportedly been murdered. The deceased, popularly known as De Lord Ogata, was allegedly killed by his son, who is at large, reports The Guardian. The son reportedly hacked his father to death b...
The Lagos State governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has promised to provide affordable self-contained apartments for young graduates as part of his proposed housing programme. Rhodes-Vivour made the promise during the 2027 Lagos governorship debate held yesterday, Sunday, November 8, where he...
•Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has called for stronger corporate accountability and effective legislative oversight of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, warning that its commercial autonomy must be matched with responsibility. Abbas said the s...
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•Medical workers move an injured police officer on a stretcher, following the Durga Puja Pandal stampede At least 19 people were killed and two dozen more injured yesterday in eastern India after a stampede that occurred during sudden rainfall at a Hindu religious gathering, officials and Indian media said. West Bengal’s Chief Minister Suvendh...
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Former leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria have intervened in the dispute between the two labour centres over the federal government’s N70,000 transport allowance. The labour leaders urged the unions’ presidents to halt public exchanges and resolve the disagreement through dialogue, report...
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•NiDCOM chairman, Abike Dabiri-Erewa The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has raised concerns that 57 Nigerian professionals working in four Nigerian-origin banks in The Gambia could lose their jobs following a directive by the country’s central bank to replace certain foreign employees with Gambian nationals. The Chairman of NiDCOM, Abike Dab...
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•Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV yesterday condemned violence that has claimed the lives of children in Uruguay, one of South America’s wealthiest countries which has emerged as a new hub in the drug trade. Just three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, the 71-year-old pontiff is on a 12-day tour of the continent where he served nearly t...
