Day: 17 August 2024

If you have no government business at UNGA, don’t follow me to US, Tinubu warns officials

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The President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has issued a directive that only government officials assigned official responsibilities at the forthcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings in New York would be allowed into his delegation. This is an effort to curtail excesses and reduce the size of Nigeria’s official delegation to the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly meetings holding in New York, United States, this September. Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, revealed the directive on Saturday in Abuja during a one-day retreat organised by the State…

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Ogun Free Trade Zone Dispute With Chinese Company: My story by Ibilunle Amosun, former Ogun state governor

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Senator Ibikunle Amosun, the former Governor of Ogun State, in whose tenure the current crisis embattling Nigeria’s Federal Government and a Chinese company Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited resulting from a dispute over the Ogun Free Trade Zone occurred has stated his side of the story. Amosun has come out to say he will not allow the Chinese company, to scam Nigeria even as the contract dispute between the Ogun State Government and the Chinese company has led to the seizure of three Nigerian presidential aircrafts. The dispute reportedly…

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NYSC to prosecute 54 demoblised fake corpers, says Calabar varsity enlisted Illiterate bread seller enlisted for national service

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Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, the Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has said that 54 corps members from University of Calabar (UNICAL) have been demobilised and will be prosecuted by the NYSC management. Ahmed, also revealed that one of the “graduates” fraudulently mobilised for the scheme by the University is a bread seller who did not attend the institution. Ahmed according to a statement by the Director, Information and Public Relations of the service, Eddy Megwa, vowed that all illegally mobilised corps members from the university would be prosecuted.…

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