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President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, wrote the House of Representatives seeking the approval of the lawmakers for a supplementary appropriation bill of N2,176,791,286,033. The president in a letter read at plenary, the speaker, Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, said the supplementary budget is aimed at addressing labour wage adjustments, security, and other matters. Aside from that, the…
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Mr Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, has advised former vice president Atiku Abubakar to end his “unprofitable” presidential ambition. In a statement titled: “Time for Atiku Abubakar to finally go away and end his ambition to be President”, Onanuga observed that Atiku had been in that pursuit for three…
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The Federal Government is proposing to introduce a sports betting industry tax scheme in the country. The executive secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), Bello Maigari, on Tuesday said Nigerians spend billions of dollars on betting each year despite the economic hardship in the country. Maigari said this at the second edition of…
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Nigerian armed forces are committed to providing security at the off-cycle governorship elections holding in Imo. Kogi and Bayelsa on Nov. 11. Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, gave the assurance on Monday in Owerri after a meeting with heads of security agencies in Imo. He also assured that troops would remain apolitical…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate in the Feb. 25 presidential election, to accept his defeat as an elder statesman. Mr Felix Morka, the APC National Publicity Secretary, gave the advice in a statement on Monday in Abuja while reacting to a news…
