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Delta State governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has suspended the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Omoun Perez. The governor also asked the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Bennett Agamah; Assistant Director, Agricultural Engineering, Oki Yintareke; and Chief Accountant, Gabriel Idiatacheko, to go on compulsory leave. Delta State Government House in a statement on Wednesday, said Perez’s…
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Kano State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has 198 suspected drug users in graveyards and nightclubs after a raid operation in Kano. 61 of the suspected illicit users, including 15 females were apprehended at the popular nightclub in the city where illicit substances freely exchange hands, NDLEA said. Kano command’s spokesperson,…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has accused some Nigerian churches and mosques of laundering money for terrorist organisations. EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede, on Wednesday, made this allegation after disclosing that N7 billion suspected to be proceeds of fraud has been traced to a religious organisation in Nigeria. Olukoyede said this at a public…
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Lagos State Commissioner of Economic Planning and Budget, Ope George, on Wednesday, revealed that only 24.28 percent, N550.68b, of the state’s N2.267trn 2024 budget would be for the development and maintenance of its infrastructure in 2024. George said this during the state 2024 Budget analysis at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa-Ikeja. He said…
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The Federal government has disclosed that it would resume demarcation exercises on the boundary between Benue and Nasarawa states. The demarcation exercise between the two states was temporarily put off on April, 6,2022 due to security challenges that rocked the two states. The Director General of the National Boundary Commission (NBC), Adamu Adaji, recalled that…
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