Author: Ebunoluwa Onyebuchi
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We are not owing MTN interconnect charges- Globacom
Globacom Ltd, a Nigerian Telecommunications Company on Tuesday denied reports making the rounds that it was owing MTN interconnect charges. Globacom is rumoured to be due for payment of the amount of N1.6 billion and it had been paid without controversy.
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NASS not a money-making machine – Bayelsa Rep
Rep. Rodney Ambaiowei (PDP-Bayelsa), has faulted the notion held in certain quarters and among his constituents that the National Assembly is a money-making machine. The lawmaker, who represents Southern Ijaw Federal Constituency of Bayelsa
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NPA urges maritime workers to suspend planned strike
The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko, has urged the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria to suspend its planned strike. Bello-Koko, while disclosing this in a statement on Monday, said that the NPA has successfully brokered peace
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BBC TB Joshua documentary is irritating and Malicious – says SCOAN
The Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN) on Tuesday, countered the BBC documentary on the late Temitope Babatunde Joshua, known as TB Joshua, Founder of SCOAN. SCOAN described the documentary as unfounded, noting that the characters interviewed in the report were unknown to the church.
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IYC President lauds Ndiomu, demands increased funding
The President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Mr Jonathan Lokpobiri has lauded achievements of the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) Retired Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu. Lokpobiri also advocated for an upward review of the budgetary allocation to PAP when he paid a courtesy visit on Ndiomu.
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FG sets up committee to tackle fraudulent degrees
The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education will today, Tuesday, set up an inter-ministerial committee to combat the activities of degree mills. The ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Ben Goong, made this known in a notice sent to journalists in Abuja.
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Onaiwu seeks upward review of NDDC budget for Edo South Senatorial zone
Former Director-General of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Earl Osaro Onaiwu has made case for an upward review of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) proposed budget allocation to Edo South Senatorial zone.
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Security guard bags life imprisonment for statutory rape
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a security guard Olawale Olarewaju to life imprisonment for having sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old girl. Justice Rahman Oshodi, berated lapses and delay in justice on the part of the Ikoyi Custodial Centre to bring the defendant, who had been in prison
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FRSC advises drivers against alcohol consumption in new year
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has advised drivers against taking alcohol and intoxicating substances in 2024 in order to minimise road traffic crashes. In an interview in Ota on Monday, Mr Anthony Uga, the FRSC Sector Commander in Ogun, said that records
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Mixed reactions trail BBC’s investigation on TB Joshua
Social media has gone wild, following a three-part special on the alleged secret lives of the late televangelist, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua (TB Joshua) by the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Africa Eye.