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Nigeria
JUST-IN: Unknown Gunmen Attack NDLEA Operatives In Ebonyi, Kill 1
Unknown gunmen Sunday morning attacked a team of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives on duty along the Ezzamgbo axis of the Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway, killing one of the personnel and seriously injuring one other. A credible source, who spoke to LEADERSHIP on the ground of anonymity, said that the ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA Arrests Man With Fake $4.7million In Abuja
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted cash sum of $4.7 million, all counterfeit in Abuja. NDLEA operatives had in the early hours of Friday, February 18, 2022 intercepted a consignment sent from Lagos to Abuja at Abaji area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), where they foiled ...
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Nigeria
Kaduna Traffic Officials Escape Mob Attack For ‘Causing’ Accident
Officials of Kaduna State Traffic Law Enforcement Authority (KASTLEA), on Sunday morning, narrowly escaped being lynched when an angry mob attacked them for allegedly causing an accident involving a trailer loaded with flour in Kaduna. Although the officials escaped unhurt, their vehicle left behind was almost set ablazed save for ...
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Nigeria
Boosting Private Sector Performance For Job Creation
Boosting the potential of the private sector in developing countries like Nigeria is critical to achieving productive job creation and inclusive growth, OLUSHOLA Bello writes. Indeed, the private sector plays a vital role in the Nigerian economy in terms of revenue generation, strategic partnerships, job creation, investment facilitation, and trade ...
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Nigeria
Excitement As The Voice Nigeria Season 4 Returns
The world’s number one international talent show, The Voice Nigeria is set to hit the screens with its fourth season of the show.It promises to be bigger, better and even more authentic than previous seasons. The fourth season of the show which will be produced in partnership with British television ...
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Nigeria
Stakeholders In Film Industry Call For Speedy Passage of MOPPICON Bill
Stakeholders and practitioners in the Nigerian film industry have bemoaned the slow rate of the passage of the Motion Picture Practitioners Council of Nigeria (MOPPICON) Bill into law which has lingered for years. The MOPPICON Bill is the framework for the regulation of the activities of the practitioners and ...
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USA
Osinbajo Pledges Federal Govt’s Support For States On Infrastructure
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured state governors of the federal government’s commitment to sustain the existing partnership on construction of federal roads and development projects. Osinbajo, while flagging off a strategic bridge linking Oporoma, headquarters of Southern Ijaw in Bayelsa State yesterday, said the show of commitment by the ...
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Russia Giappone
Japanese economy on edge over possible commodity hikes due to Ukraine crisis
The Ukraine crisis has also brought uncertainties to Tokyo's stock market, with some brokers expecting a Moscow-led offensive would send the Nikkei stock average below ...
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Nigeria
Law Professor Challenges ASUU Over Pantami’s Academic Rank, Legality
A professor of Industrial and Commercial Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Joe Abugu, has criticised the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over its stance on the conferment of professorial status on the minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Ali Pantami, by the Federal University of Technology ...
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Nigeria
Affordable Housing, Key To Boosting Nigeria’s Economy
Affordability in the housing sector entails that, people are able to pay and acquire apartments with prices within their capacities. In the past, housing experts defined affordability as households spending less than 30 per cent of their budget on housing, including rents or mortgages, property taxes, maintenance and repairs as ...