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President Bola Tinubu has extended his condolences to President Lazarus Chakwera and the people of Malawi over the deaths of Vice President Saulos Chilima and other officials in a plane crash. Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President, Media and Publicity, said in a statement on Monday, in Abuja, that President Tinubu commiserated with…
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The Senate on Tuesday approved a supplementary budget of N98.5 billion for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for 2024. This amount is in addition to the N1.2 trillion budget passed by the National Assembly in March. The Senate approved the bill titled, “A Bill for an Act to authorise the issue from the Federal Capital…
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Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has called on government at all levels to improve the level of security across Nigeria. Atiku made this call on Tuesday while reacting to the reports of the recent attack on Yargoje village in Kankara LGA of Katsina State, which claimed scores of lives and the kidnap of vulnerable women…
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Former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has urged President Bola Tinubu to honour Captain J.O. Abalaka, an Army officer who reportedly disarmed a member of the kidnapping gang that abducted him, his dog, and other captives in Kogi State. The incident reportedly occurred while Abalaka was reporting to his new unit at the…
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Gunmen from criminal gangs killed 26 people, including four policemen, and kidnapped dozens more in a raid on a northwestern Nigerian village, the latest in a spate of attacks, police and a local official said. Katsina is one of several states in northwestern and central Nigeria terrorised by heavily armed gangs, who carry out mass…
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