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FCT Minister Muhammad Bello has pledged to provide needed support for NEXT Cash and Carry Supermall, Abuja, to bounce back stronger than what it was before the fire incident on Boxing Day. The minister made the pledge on Tuesday in Abuja, while undertaking an on-the-spot assessment of the mega shopping mall, which was gutted by…
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US President Joe Biden revoked an existing proclamation Tuesday that banned travel last month from eight African countries because of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. “The travel restrictions imposed by that proclamation are no longer necessary to protect the public health,” Biden said in a new proclamation. Accordingly, the restrictions on Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho,…
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Reno Omokri, an aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has refuted claims that the latter left behind funds that could last barely for three weeks in 2015. The claim was made by the Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. Omokri who refuted the allegation through his Instagram page, argued that Amaechi had been showing desperation to…
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“We just approved the consequential adjustment of the minimum wage, and that is going to take huge chunk from the state’s resources. The maths for the local governments is still being worked out.
-Kwara governor
•Aiteo considers options against multinational oil company over Nembe spill •Sector not ripe for full-blown deactivation processes, says industry regulator •Stakeholders want enforcement of rules Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria and ExxonMobil are presently faced with huge remediation costs over their failure to properly decommission and cap oil and gas assets across the Niger…
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