Tinubu visits Malabo on Wednesday

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President Bola Tinubu will on Wednesday depart Abuja for Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on a three-day official visit to honour the invitation of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. President Tinubu will meet with the Equatorial Guinean President at the Presidential Villa upon arrival, where meetings will be held between the two leaders and agreements, particularly on…

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President Bola Tinubu on Monday, commissioned the first set of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The buses, numbering 20 in the first batch, were produced locally by Innoson Motors. The government had expressed optimism that the buses will help to ease transportation problems, especially in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)…

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In a groundbreaking initiative, the Society of Women in Safety, Health, and Environment - Africa (SOWSHE-A) has announced the inaugural African Women in Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety (EHS) Conference and Awards. Founder of SOWSHE-A, Funmi Adegbola made the announcement in a statement on Sunday. According to the statement, the pioneering event, set to take…

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Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has written to his British counterpart to lodge a formal complaint over the row involving Air Peace’s flight operations from the United Kingdom. According to online news medium, The Cable, the minister made the threat in a letter dated August 1, 2024, and addressed to Louise Haigh,…

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• NUEE seeks release of abducted member The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded an immediate apology from the Federal Government and the police for the unwarranted invasion of its headquarters last week Wednesday.   The Congress also called for a forensic security audit of its headquarters to ascertain its safety and continued suitability for…

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The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) said it has reimbursed 82.36 per cent of the customers of the defunct Heritage Bank with deposits below the N5 million maximum insured deposit.     Disclosing this in a statement yesterday, Director, Communications and Public Affairs, NDIC, Bashir Nuhu, said this was achieved through the use of BVN-linked…

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The management of AIPCC Energy Limited, operators of the Edo Refinery and Petrochemicals Company Limited (ERPCL), has raised the alarm on the persistent lack of crude oil despite being a fully functional 1,000 barrels per day stream crude oil refinery.      It said that despite the disclosure by the Dangote Refinery on the refusal of…

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•Senate faults alleged ‘immoral’ allowances, Reps insist monthly pay is N600,000  • ‘Lawmaker who displayed N936,979 alert on TV misled Nigerians’ • Obi: Leaders must reflect on people’s cries, address legitimate demands • Reduce waste, prioritise Nigerians’ welfare, HEDA tells Tinubu  • Don’t let citizens suffer continually, reduce emoluments, Akinfenwa tells politicians Besides the strenuous…

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12 The Vice-Chancellor of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Prof. Ayodeji Agboola, said the 42-year-old institution has contributed to manpower development in every sector of the nation’s economy since its establishment. He submitted that the tertiary institution has grown from five faculties to 14, and from fewer than 300 students to 30,000. In a chat…

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• Seizes U.S., UK-bound consignments in auto parts, clothes, arrests four Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in a nationwide intelligence, have recovered multi-billion-naira worth of cocaine. The operatives recovered 2.32kg of cocaine concealed in Ghanaian traditional kente materials going to the United Kingdom at a courier firm in Lagos on Monday,…