He died on Thursday evening in his house in Yenagoa after a brief illness
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Emeka Afigbo, Facebook’s Head of Platform Partnerships for the Middle East and Africa, said that the organisation’s partnership with developers was for global benefit
Bolaji Adebiyi, the Director of Press in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the project is being handled by the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists and the Nigerian Union of Journalists
The governor made this known to newsmen after joining President Muhammadu Buhari and hundreds of other Muslim faithful to perform the 2-raka’at Juma’at prayer at the Aso Rock Mosque, Abuja
The union’s National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, raised the hope during interview with the New Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos
They are being tried on a four-count charge of conspiracy, extortion, obstruction in public way or line of navigation and failure to give information to public servant
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the development caused panic among residents of the area and parishioners
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, made this known in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja
The reports followed the absence of Buhari at last week’s Federal Executive Council meeting and the cancellation of the one for this week
A police rider collided with a police vehicle in the latest accident
The appointment was contained in a statement issued by the Presidency on Friday
In a release issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday by the governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said it was becoming obvious that a group of cabal is exercising the powers of the President
The Olubadan made the accusation at his palace in Ibadan while receiving the new Deputy Inspector General of Police, South West, Foluso Adebanjo
The committee, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is probing suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke
The meeting came 24 hours after the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, were suspended from office
In a statement by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, the anti-corruption agency said the report, which was not published by The Eagle Online, was false
Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, who spoke on the incident in Abuja on Thursday, described the reports as “unfair and uncharitable”
The festival, which is an expanded form of the maiden edition of the Nigerian Drums Festival held in Abeokuta in 2016, also drew participants from Haiti and observers from Dallas in the United States