Tag: New Year
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President Buhari’s strides in the New Year – Garba Shehu
By Garba Shehu The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari completed 19 months in office at the end of December. Except for this period being the end of a year and the beginning of another one, it is not a milestone of spectacular importance. It is, nonetheless, another opportunity to reiterate the Buhari success story,…
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PHOTOS: Buhari presides over 1st FEC meeting of 2017
President Muhammadu Buhari is today presiding over the first Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting of 2017 at the Council Chamber in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, with key discussion that will shape the New Year expected to be discussed. FEC held its last meeting of 2016 21st of December as ministers proceeded for the…
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Osun to intensify intervention programmes 2017 – Aregbesola
In his 2017 New Year broadcast titled ‘From recession to recovery, growth and consolidation,’ the governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, has voiced his government’s commitment to intensify intervention programmes in the State in the New Year 2017. “We are going to intensify our intervention programmes among the people. This year, we are going to…
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Rivers APC urges members to be peaceful, hopeful in New Year
The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged his members and people of Rivers State to be peaceful and optimistic as they celebrate the New Year. APC, in a New Year message signed by the State Publicity Secretary, Warisenibo Chris Finebone, called on the party faithful and people of the State to…
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Cold Weather: Queen Elizabeth misses Christmas, New Year church services
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth missed a New Year’s Day church service on Sunday due to a heavy cold, Buckingham Palace said, a week after the 90-year-old monarch missed a Christmas Day service for the first time in decades. The world’s longest-reigning monarch, who became unwell before Christmas, stayed indoors at her Sandringham country estate in…
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Obama in New Year message canvasses sustenance of his 8-year legacies
Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama has called for the sustenance of the legacies of his eight-year presidency as he hands over to President-elect Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. Obama, in a New Year message to Americans, said America had made significant progress over the past eight years as against the gloom that pervaded the…
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FG declares Dec 26th, 27th, Jan 2nd, Christmas, New Year holidays
The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday 26th, Tuesday 27th December, 2016 and Monday 2nd January, 2017 as Public Holidays to mark the Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year Celebrations respectively. The Minister of Interior Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement signed by the Acting…