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By Amos Odeh, Bayelsa They passed the verdict during a one-day meeting on the “Framework for Citizens’ Budgeting in Bayelsa State” organised by the Social Development Integrated Centre, popularly called Social Action, at the Bayelsa Non-Governmental Organisations Forum (BANGOF) secretariat in Yenagoa. The meeting was part of activities under Social Action’s campaign on open budget and other fiscal documents, including …

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Tayo Olanipekun A support group for Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has commended the Governor for involving a former Managing Director of Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Dr. Ola Oresanya, in the efforts to rid the state of waste. Dr. Oresanya, who is an apex member of the group, Itesiwaju Ipinle Eko Vanguard, was re-appointed by Governor Ambode …

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A housewife, Oluwakemi Patrick, pleaded with an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos State on Tuesday to dissolve her marriage because her husband beats her before making love to her. Oluwakemi, a mother of five, told the court that she could no longer bear the persistent beating before sex by John Patrick, her husband of 17 years. “My lord there is no …

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The UBA Foundation is now accepting entries for this year’s edition of the National Essay Competition. The first prize for the competition is a N2 million educational grant for the winner to study in any African university of his or her choice, a 100% increase from N1m which was awarded last year, while the second and third prizes have increased …

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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has said it is horrified by the killings of at least 12 farmers in Kalle village, Borno State, last weekend.  “The level of violence registered lately in Northeast Nigeria is alarming. Farmers have been easy targets. These attacks risk making people too afraid to cultivate their land and may worsen the existing food crisis,” said …

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The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, Ambassador Tibor Nagy, has said Nigeria is home to the sharpest young people he has ever met. Ambassador Nagy spoke yesterday from Washington, D.C. ahead of his official visit to Nigeria and other countries. He said authorities should address the issues that can make the youths become “distraught …

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By: Ariwera Ibibo – Howells, yenagoa. Bayelsa state former House of Assembly member and onetime Commissioner in the state Local Government Service Commission, Chief Augustus Elliot OSomu says he is running for the Ogbia Federal constituency seat in the 2019 election. The former Legislator who represented Ogbia Constituency III in the state Assembly disclosed this to Journalists at Imiringi, his …

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By Folake Sokoya The National Wire Staff Writer, Tayo Olanipekun, has been selected to receive a full grant Training programme by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the United Kingdom. He will be joining other journalists from across the world for the one week training starting from November 12, 2018. This was made known in a letter to our staff dated …

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– ‘Telecom firm only responded after CBN’s sanction’ Big businesses operating in Nigeria take the Federal Government and stipulated regulations for granted, the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, declared on Tuesday. Ahmed, who was responding to a question on the recent sanction that was imposed on MTN Nigeria Communications Limited by the Central Bank of Nigeria, while speaking during a …

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Nigeria’s agriculture sector loses about N20 billion annually due to failure of insurance companies to create products to cover small farmers, stakeholders have revealed. They hinted the need for insurance products to aggregate small farmers. It was at the 2018 national insurance brokers’ conference and exhibition in Lagos that they gathered to urge insurance companies to deal with poultry and …

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