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Breaking! Seven African Presidents Join Buhari to Open Dangote Refinery, Continent’s Game Changer

* 650,000bpd facility to alter international energy landscape, end petrol smuggling in Nigeria

*Tinubu, Emefiele, governors, ministers, top business leaders to witness epoch event *Refinery, a significant achievement for Africa, Adeleke declares

Oramah: Afreximbank proud as its largest financier

*Rewane: Refinery will strengthen Nigeria’s macro-economic stability.

Daily Post

Swear with Qur’an you didn’t steal govt money – El-Rufai challenges ex-govs

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufa has challenged his predecessors to come out and swear with the Holy Quran as a proof that they did not embezzle public funds while in office.

The Guardian

70% of food exports from Nigeria rejected abroad, says NAFDAC

Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, yesterday, lamented that over 70 per cent of food exports from Nigeria are rejected abroad, with huge financial losses to exporters and the country.

Vanguard

Election Tribunal shouldn’t be ‘like secret meeting,’ Onaiyekan backs live broadcast

The Catholic Bishop Emeritus of Abuja Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has backed the call for live broadcast of Presidential Election Petition Tribunal proceedings.

The cleric noted that the proceedings of the Election Tribunal should not be ‘like a secret meeting,’ because the voters needed to follow up on how their votes were being defended.

Channels

Resident Doctors Suspend Strike

The leadership of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its one-week warning strike which it embarked upon on Wednesday, May 17.

Punch

Don’t judge me based on performance as minister – Akpabio

The former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has called on Nigerians and members of the incoming 10th National Assembly not to assess him using his brief tenure as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs.

Akpabio said he preferred to be judged by his record as a lawyer of 36 years, commissioner for six years and a governor for 8 years.

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Attahiru Jega - ASUU Strike Turned Into A Personal Quarrel

Attahiru Jega, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has accused Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, of taking the industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) personal and turning it into a private dispute. Speaking on Tuesday during a programme on Arise TV, Jega said Ngige is creating more problems than solutions. He alleges that Ngige is having a personal quarrel with the minister of education and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Jega said; "Unfortunately, right now, the minister of labour is not helping matters. He has turned this into a personal quarrel between him and the minister of education on one hand and between himself and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the other. “While many other people are trying to find a way of addressing this situation so that students can go back to school and ASUU can go back to work, he is busy creating challenges. “He now took the matte...

INEC-N305bn Required To Conduct 2023 Elections

On Monday 20th December, 2021, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), through its Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu says the commission will require N305 billion to conduct the 2023 general elections. The INEC Boss, made this known in a statement during a meeting with the Senate Committee on Appropriation at the National Assembly. This amount will facilitate the electoral process by aiding the commission to prepare for the election. It will go a long way to assist in the purchase of all the election materials needed and also cover several bye-elections across the country. The INEC Chairman noted however that the commission has already received N100 billion out of the required amount for the elections. The National Assembly is yet to receive a letter from President Muhammad Buhari on his decision to give or withdraw his assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The 30-day deadline stipulated by the constitution for the President to respond to the bill expired on Sunday...

Breaking: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Campaign DG Has Left The All Progressive Congress, APC.

Honourable Abdulmumin Jibrin, the Campaign Director General of APC frontline presidential aspirant, Ahmed Tinubu, has left the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. He made his decision known via his Twitter handle. He tweeted, “I have done my best for APC. Its time to move on. I will announce my new political party within the next 24 hours insha Allah. I will make a formal statement in due course. Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin.” Jubril in the last weeks aggressively campaigned for Tinubu. On several platforms, he asserted his position on a Southern presidency. During an interview with Arise Television, Jubril made the following remark, “I don’t think APC will try to toy around with that matter. I believe confidently that the Presidency is going to the Southern part and, when it goes there, Asiwaju stands out clearly in terms of experience, pedigree and competence and most importantly, the ability to win the election. His gap is quite huge more than anybody else". "Well 24 hou...

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