Tag: trouble
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BREAKING! Trouble looming as Benue Assembly suspends 13 lawmakers
…over suspension of State CJ Trouble looming as Benue State House of Assembly suspends 13 of its members who opposed the removal of the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Maurice Ikpambase. The members met after a plenary session on Tuesday to distance themselves from the decision, which they called unconstitutional and a breach of…
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God is the troublemaker (1)- Femi Aribisala
By Femi Aribisala Armed robbers broke into a man’s house. They cornered him in his bedroom. In desperation, he pleaded to be allowed to say his last prayer. His assailants were amused. They told him to go ahead but make it brief. The man went down on his knees. “Father,” he cried silently, “I need…
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One Tweet and a nation in a trail of trouble, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe Let me state without equivocation that it looks to me that Nigeria never really forgave Twitter for taking its African headquarters to neighboring Ghana. So all that shemozzle about the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Tweet being removed was a deliberate scheme to excavate a residual hurt and manipulate it to mask or obviate…
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COVID-19: No doubt, Kano is in great trouble – Ganduje
Kano Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has declared the state is in trouble with the COVID-19 pandemic. Kano has the second highest number of COVID-19 cases with 342 patients in Nigeria. His administration has been widely criticised for not being proactive with containing the virus. Ganduje, who spoke at the presentation of a mobile testing centre donated…
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Trouble looms in FIRS as workers demand handover to senior director
Twenty-four hours after the change of leadership at the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), members of staff of the Service have given the authorities till Friday for the most senior director to take over as acting chairman. Mr. Babatunde Fowler handed over to Abiodun Aina, Coordinating Director, Domestic Taxes Group after President Muhammadu Buhari named…
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Trouble for Oshiomhole as Buhari backs aggrieved APC members
President Muhammadu Buhari has publicly disagreed with the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the right of aggrieved members to seek redress in court. In a statement by Femi Adesina, the president’s media adviser, President Buhari stressed that if anyone is displeased with the way and manner anything has been done,…
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BREAKING: More trouble for APC as nPDP laments non-recognition, issues seven-day ultimatum
There are more trouble imminent in the already distressed All Progressives Congress [APC], as former leaders of the nPDP [new Peoples Democratic Party] who defected, joined hands with other parties in the merger that led to the formation of APC in 2013 have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the national chairman of the ruling party,…
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MTN lands in fresh trouble, fined $8.5m
Rwanda’s telecom industry regulator has fined MTN Rwanda, a division of South Africa’s MTN Group, 7 billion francs (8.5 million dollars) for running its IT services outside the country in breach of its licence. The regulator said in a ruling posted on its website in Kigali that MTN Rwanda was hosting its IT services hub…