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Troops uncover illegal oil bunkering sites in Delta communities
Troops have uncovered illegal bunkering sites in Owahwa and Tseleku communities in the riverine area of Delta State. Army spokesman, Brig. General Onyema Nwachukwu, who made the disclosure, noted that troops of the Nigerian Army (NA), in synergy with personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), had continued to crack down on saboteurs of Nigeria’s oil sector in Southern Nigeria.…
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Service chiefs trending after emergency meeting with Tinubu
Service chiefs are currently trending on X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter on Monday. This might not be unconnected with the emergency meeting of President Bola Tinubu with the service chiefs at Aso Rock Villa. Recall that the President had a meeting with all the Service Chiefs in which the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu. At the Presidential…
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Taiwan commits to forging stronger partnership with Africa
……President to visit Eswatini, Africa President of Taiwan, Dr. Ing-Wen Tsai, is scheduled to visit her ally in the continent, the Kingdom of Eswatini, on September 5 to 8, 2023. This will be President Tsai’s second visit to the Kingdom after her first in April 2018. The president’s visit is to showcase how Taiwan has valued the partnership with Eswatini…
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No candidate deserves win, says George as PEPC delivers verdict tomorrow
A former deputy national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olabode George, yesterday, said it would be a shame if the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) pronounces anybody as winner of the February 25 presidential election. His comment followed report that the court will, tomorrow, deliver judgment on petitions against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as winner of thepoll.…
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PROFILE: Meet the five judges who’ll decide Tinubu’s, Atiku’s, Obi’s fate at Tribunal
In May, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal commenced its sitting with various justices presiding over the various petitions concerning the 2023 presidential election. Five political parties including the PDP, LP, Action Peoples Party (APP), Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and the Action Alliance (AA) had lodged separate petitions before the tribunal seeking to annul Tinubu’s victory. The sitting of the five-man panel of…
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Tinubu Is Not Threatening Election Tribunal Judges; He Isn’t Worried About Ruling – Presidency
“He (Tinubu) is not worried simply because he knows he won the election,” said presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Channels Television on Monday. The presidency has said President Bola Tinubu is not worried ahead of the Wednesday’s judgment to be delivered by the Presidential Election Petition Court, and therefore, he is not threatening any of the judicial officers. “He (Tinubu)…
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Gunmen kill seven worshippers in northern Nigeria
Gunmen have killed seven Muslim worshippers and injured three others in two separate attacks on mosques in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state, police said Saturday. Suspects from criminal gangs referred to as bandits opened fire Friday on worshippers in Saya-Saya community in Ikara district during evening prayers, killing six people, Kaduna state police spokesman Mansir Hassan said in a statement. “At…
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At least 25 civilians killed in 48 hours in Sudan: activists, medic
Five civilians were killed by bombs that “fell on their homes” in Khartoum, a Sudanese medical source told AFP, a day after an air strike in the city’s south killed at least 20 civilians. Residents of the war-torn capital reported the city was again pummelled by artillery and rocket fire Sunday, in the fifth month of war between the army…
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Cleric tasks Tinubu, ECOWAS on peaceful mediation in Niger
As Gabon joined other African countries with military insurrection that led to the termination of President Ali Bongo Ondimba 14-year rule, the Planter of Christ Apostolic Church, Adamimogo Grace of Mercy Prayer Mountain, Worldwide, Prophet Sam Olu-Alo, has asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his counterparts in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to amicably resolve the Niger Republic…
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Thousands Rally In Support Of Military Rulers In Niger, Call For French Ambassador, Forces To Leave Country
The country new military rulers have accused the former colonial power of “interference”. Thousands of protesters Saturday gathered outside a French military base in Niger’s capital Niamey demanding that its troops leave the West African country The call comes amid the widespread popular support for the July 26 coup d’etat that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. However, Paris has refused to…
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