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YOUNG NIGERIAN HERO, ADJWOA AWE RECEIVES PRINCESS DIANA AWARD

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  A 15-year-old Nigerian, Miss Adjwoa Awe, has been honoured with The Diana Award for going above and beyond in their daily life to create and sustain positive change. The award was announced on Wednesday 1 July; during the 2020 Diana Awards Virtual Ceremony held to celebrate all the awardees amazing achievements and introduce them to the rest of the world. Awe is being recognized with the highest accolade a young person can achieve for social action or humanitarian efforts – The Diana Award. Established in memory of Diana, Princess…

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Kenya Senators Exchange Blows In Fight Over Committee Post

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Two nominated senators in Kenya, Beatrice Kwamboka (ODM) and Mary Seneta (Jubilee), engaged in a scuffle before parliamentary security separated them. The scuffle over a post is said to have led to the suspension of the vice-chairperson of the Election of Senate health committee. It was gathered that trouble brewed after Ms Senata accused some members, including Ms Kwamboka of colluding to edge her out of the position. Seneta made the accusation after Narok Senator Ledama ole Kina was declared the winner. The accusation made Kwamboka who is the deputy minority leader angry…

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National Assembly suspends 774,000 public works recruitment scheme

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The National Assembly has suspended the 774,000 public works recruitment scheme on Wednesday. At an executive session, the Senate debated the Tuesday clash between the National Assembly Joint Committee on Labour and Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo (SAN), during which the lawmakers expressed anger about what they described as a display of executive rascality. Consequently, the Senate announced that the two chambers of the National Assembly had ordered that the implementation of the 774,000 public works programme should be put on hold until the legislature is properly briefed.…

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Ex-NSITF boss, Olejeme, to forfeit 48 properties

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The interim forfeiture of 48 choice properties, allegedly belonging to a former chairman of the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Funds, Ngozi Olejeme, has been ordered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday. The affected properties were spread across the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Bayelsa, Enugu, Edo and Delta states, according to a statement from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission spokesman, Dele Oyewale. The forfeiture order was granted after the counsel for the EFCC, Ekele Iheanacho, convinced the court that the said property was purchased…

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Covid-19: Delta Governor Okowa, wife test positive

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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and his wife, Edith, have tested positive for coronavirus. It was learnt that almost all the offices at the Government House had been shut, as workers were said to have abandoned their offices for safety, leaving only the security behind. Sources said that the news that the father of the state and his family had tested positive for COVID-19, was an indication that the state was in danger. “Almost all the offices have been shut down; workers are afraid as the key components of the government have…

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Pastor arrested for alleged rape of 12-year-old girl in uncompleted building

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Niyi Omowodun, a 54-year-old pastor, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for defiling a 12-year-old girl in an uncompleted building. The suspect, who is a pastor at Helmet of Life International Church, reportedly committed the offence at Ejigun Agbede Itele Ota, in the Ado-odo Local Government Area of the state He was said to have dragged the 12-year-girl, who was sent on an errand, to an uncompleted building in the area and had unlawful carnal knowledge of her. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola…

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Polio: Senate Demands Sustained Immunization of Children.

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The Senate has called on government at the federal and state levels, as well as relevant Ministries and Agencies to sustain the immunization of infants and children in the country. The call was made against the backdrop of a motion considered to commemorate the declaration of Nigeria as a polio virus free nation by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday, 11th June, 2020. The upper chamber while congratulating the Federal Government for the feat, urged the Federal Ministry of Health to adopt guidelines and other measures to prevent the…

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FG increases petrol pump price to N143.80

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A new price band of N140.80 to N143.80 per litre for Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol has been announced by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency. The PPPRA, in a circular dated July 1, 2020 to marketers, said, “After a review of the prevailing market fundamentals in the month of June and considering marketers’ realistic operating costs, as much as practicable, we wish to advise a new PMS pump price band of N140.80-N143.80 per litre for the month of July 2020. “All marketers are advised to operate within…

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Midnight fire consumes Ajao market in Lagos

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The popular Ajao market in the Ajao area of Lagos State has been gutted by Fire. The incident started around 1am on Wednesday. Although the cause of the fire incident was yet to be ascertained, it was learnt that the inferno started around a shopping mall close to the market and had extended into the main Ajao market. Properties worth millions of naira were said to have been destroyed as the fire had affected some adjoining buildings and made residents flee for safety. Emergency responders, including the Lagos State Emergency…

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