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Chairman Northern Speakers Forum Salutes COAS On 56th Birthday The Chairman Northern Speakers Forum, Speaker Kaduna State House of Assembly, Rt. Honourable Yusuf Ibrahim Zailani has congratulated the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya on the occasion of his birthday. This was contained in a statement signed by ...

Why We’ll Miss Hon Adetoun Adediran, Lagos Speaker Obasa Mourns Ex-Lawmaker The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has described the demise of Hon. Adetoun Adediran, a former Deputy Speaker of the State as shocking. The late Adediran served as a member of the ...

  The federal government has released the official gazette categorizing bandits as terrorists. A federal high court sitting in Abuja had on November 26 proscribed Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups and subsequently declared their activities as acts of terrorism. THE WHISTLER reported that Justice Taiwo Taiwo, presiding judge, ...

  Rivers State Police Command has disclosed that the organisers of the music concert held in Buguma, Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State, which was disrupted when a popular Nigerian artist, Teniola Akpata, popularly known as Teni, was performing last week did not apply for security prior to the event. ...

  Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed and CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele The Minister of Finance, Budget and National planning, Zainab Ahmed, has revealed that Nigeria’s inflation rate will remain at double digit in 2022. Zainab disclosed the development on Wednesday at the Public Presentation and Breakdown ...

  The Federal Government has imposed a N10 per liter excise duty tax on all non-alcoholic, carbonated and sweetened beverages. The excise duty tax is one of the amendments made in the Finance Act 2022 which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 31 last year. The ...

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has cautioned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) stating that the move to ban the singing of the Nigerian National Anthem and the consumption of northern cows in the south-east region might be counter-productive. A statement on Wednesday by the Ohanaeze Secretary-General, ...

  Popular Yoruba movie actress, Kemi Afolabi was injured by robbers at Arepo, Ogun State along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.   It was gathered that the actress was attacked by cutlass wielding robbers on Tuesday night while she was returning home from a movie shoot.   In a post on Instagram, ...

ADEDUNTAN: FIRSTBANK IS RESILIENT, STABLE AND BUILT FOR THE LONG HAUL The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of First Bank Nigeria Limited, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, last year saw his tenure extended as part of efforts to ensure the stability of the financial institution. In this interview with THISDAY, he speaks about ...

NAF APPOINTS NEW BRANCH CHIEFS, AIR OFFICERS COMMANDING, OTHER SENIOR OFFICERS Postings and redeployments in the military are routine exercises intended to reinvigorate the Services for greater performance, enhanced productivity, operational efficiency, and effective service delivery. It is in view of the foregoing that the Chief of Air Staff, Air ...