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FG suspends electricity tariff hike 0
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- September 30, 2020
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has finally issued an order suspending the September 1, 2020 hike in electricity tariff for two weeks. This is in line with the agreement reached with the organised Labour on the suspension of strike over the hike in electricity tariff and increase in pump price of petrol Sunday night.
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Moctar Ouané: Mali appoints a new prime minister 0
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- September 28, 2020
The transitional government of Mali led by President Bah Ndaw, has appointed a new prime minister, Moctar Ouané, to work with him. Ouané who is 64 years old had served as a former ambassador of the nation to the United Nations (UN) from 1995-2002 and foreign minister until 2009, TVC News reports. Adding to his profile, the
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Iju-Ishaga tanker explosion: 30 injured, 23 buildings, 15 vehicles destroyed 0
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- September 25, 2020
People try to salvage valuables from buildings on fire after a tanker laden with gas exploded and left over a dozen of people critically injured and several buildings and vehicles burnt at Iju Ishaga in Lagos, on September 24, 2020. – A tanker conveying gasoline exploded at Iju-Ishaga district of Lagos, leaving over a dozen
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Borno’s Emir of Biu dies, leaves behind 70 children, 200 grandchildren 0
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- September 17, 2020
The Emir of Biu in Borno state, Umar Mustapha Aliyu, is dead, leaving behind four wives, over 70 children and 200 grandchildren, the deceased eldest son, Maina Mustapha revealed. He died Monday night at the Federal Medical Center (Federal Teaching Hospital), Gombe after a brief illness. He was 80 years old. The Emir was born
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Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu sign peace pact as INEC pledges neutrality 0
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- September 16, 2020
Ahead of this weekend’s gubernatorial election in Edo State, Governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, yesterday, committed to a violence-free exercise. The pledge was made during the signing of a truce deal brokered by Chairman of National Peace Committee, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar
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Edo, Ondo elections: Correct 2019 poll errors now, Saraki advises Buhari, NASS 0
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- September 15, 2020
The president of the eight Senate, Bukola Saraki, has finally revealed why he kept mute and refused to challenge the results of the 2019 presidential election. The former Senate boss said that he maintained silence for peace to reign, adding that “the lives of our people, the stability of our democracy and the peace of
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