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Army Holds Training For Junior, Senior Officers In Frontline

The Nigerian Army Headquarters has organized a capacity-building and leadership training seminar for junior and senior cadre officers of Operation Hadin Kai, the military outfit spearheading the fight against Boko Haram and ISWAP insurgents in the North-East. Declaring open the one-day joint security seminar at the Officers’ Mess, Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri, on Thursday, the Chief...
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Adeoti, ADC Chieftain, Hails Osun At 34

A former Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Moshood Adeoti, has congratulated the people of Osun State on the 34th anniversary of the state’s creation. Osun State, created on August 27, 1991, following its separation from the old Oyo State, has grown into a land of rich...
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Our Operations Based On Global Best Practices

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has reassured the public that its operations are guided by professionalism and global best practices. The Service stressed that all convicted inmates in custodial centres across the country are serving their sentences as ordered by competent courts of law. This comes in response to reports claiming that operatives of the...
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Nigerians Deserve Explanation On S’West Figures, ADC Tells INEC

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to explain what it described as “statistically implausible” figures emerging from the South-West in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise. In a statement issued on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC expressed concern over...
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Equitorial Guinea’s Baltasar Engonga Gets 8yr-Jail Term After Sex Tape Scandal, Embezzlement

A court in Equatorial Guinea yesterday handed an eight-year jail term for embezzlement to a senior official, Baltasar Ebang Engonga who separately won notoriety for appearing in a series of sex tapes with other officials’ wives. The Bioko provincial tribunal convicted Baltasar Ebang Engonga of diverting money claimed as professional travel expenses for personal use,...
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Kwara Sensitises Populace On Climate Change

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has reiterated his administration’s commitment to partnering with relevant organisations to combat climate change and promote community acceptance of eco-friendly initiatives. The governor stated this in Ilorin, the state capital, during a stakeholders’ engagement and sensitisation programme on the state’s Climate Change Policy and Action Plan, organised by the Ministry...
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Delta@34: Oborevwori Hails Ibru, E.K Clark, Others

Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has paid glowing tribute to the first civilian Governor of the state, late Olorogun Felix Ibru and the First Republican Minister of Information, late Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. The governor, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Kingsley Emu, at the Thanksgiving service at the Government House Chapel...
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