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Twitter users intensify civic engagement, accountability as service is restored

• Platform pleased to return to Nigeria as telcos open network gateways• SERAP seeks compensation for affected Nigerians With the lifting of the seven months ban on micro blogging platform, Twitter, yesterday, by the Federal Government, many government agencies, parastatals, corporate Nigeria and users returned to the platform amid intensified calls for accountability and civic […]

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2022 Governorship: Ekiti ex-commissioner urges Fayemi to caution his aides

APC leaders endorse Ondo commissioner’s bid for Reps A former Ekiti State Commissioner for Public Utilities, Bamidele Faparusi, has advised Governor Kayode Fayemi to rein in some of his aides.This followed reports that some loyalists of the governor were allegedly coercing some appointees to back a particular aspirant in the January 27 All Progressives Congress

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Oil ownership: ACF backs Obasanjo, PANDEF, INC fume, say constitution fraudulent

The northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has disagreed with the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, the Ijaw National Congress and some civil rights groups over the ownership of crude oil in the Niger Delta. The ACF spokesman, Emmanuel Yawe, in an interview with The PUNCH on Wednesday supported the position of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that

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‘Sexual harassment, extortion, intellectual fraud in varsities unacceptable’

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said stories about sexual harassment, extortion and plagiarism emanating from the campuses of universities and other higher institutions are totally unacceptable. The President also charged university-based unions to work together to ensure that the challenges were rectified. Buhari was quoted to have said these in the latest

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EFCC Arrests Fake ‘Army General’ over N270m Fraud (Pictures)

Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC, have arrested one Bolarinwa Oluwasegun, a fake Army General, for an alleged N270m fraud. The suspect, who posed as a General in the Nigerian Army, allegedly made false representations to the complainant, Kodef Clearing Resources, that the President, Muhammadu Buhari, had shortlisted him and one other

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Osun Assembly begins probe as provost attacks AG over alleged fraud

Osun State House of Assembly on Sunday said it has commenced a probe into the audit query issued by the Office of the State Auditor General to the Bursar of Osun State College of Education, Ila, Olanrewaju Oyedeji. The query signed by the State Auditor General, Folorunsho Adesina, had advised the state government to declare

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