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Presidential Media chat: Mixed reactions trail Buhari's performance
3:52:13 PMFemi Ajasa

Mixed reactions, heated debates trail President Muhammadu Buhari's first Presidential Media chat which held in Abuja on Wednesday.

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#Presidentialmediachat: We may send unemployed youth seeking N5k allowance to farms
3:42:11 PMAbiodun Alade

President Muhammadu Buhari, has declared that unemployed Nigerians seeking the N5,000 allowances promised by the governing party, All Progressives Congress, APC, during the presidential campaign, may be send to farms.

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Varsities talk: Continuous denial will not help our universities (2)
3:34:24 PMjohnabayomi2

I was in Uyo two weeks ago when an NTA news item brought me up short. Unfortunately, there was no writing material around to record the name of the official in one of the agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education who was being interviewed. Apparently, officials in the Ministry and its agencies had been invited to Aso Rock to brief the President about the education sector. The President had asked them why Nigerian universities had such low ratings among African and global universities. What startled me was the reply reported to have been given to Buhari

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#Presidentialmediachat: We may ban hijab because of Boko Haram - Buhari
3:23:11 PMAbiodun Alade

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government may ban the use of hijab by muslim women as a result of the use of female suicide bombers by Boko Haram insurgents.

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Education 2015: One step forward, two steps backward
2:56:11 PMjohnabayomi2

WITH a couple of hours to 2016, we at Vanguard Learning bring you a collection of stories that shaped 2015.

N492,034bn education budget: Tagged 'A Budget of Transition and Hope' the immediate past Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of Economy, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, presented to the National Assembly the N4.3 trillion 2015 budget.

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#Presidentialmediachat: Notable quotes from Buhari
2:48:57 PMAbiodun Alade

"I cannot see the #NASS spending N45billion to buy cars on top of the transport allowance they collect"

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Nigeria wins bid to manage Belarus's satellite for 15 years
1:04:58 PMAbiodun Alade

Nigeria has made history in the global space technology market by becoming the first country in the Sub-Sahara Africa to manage a foreign satellite.

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Petrol Price: 50 Kobo reduction 'too little to cheer', says PDP
12:45:54 PMAbiodun Alade

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the 'new' pump prices of petrol as announced Tuesday by the Federal Government as a continuation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government by deception.

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Ambode's convoy apprehends Airforce cadets for locking boy in car trunk
12:45:00 PMFemi Ajasa

Ambode on Wednesday apprehended two Airforce cadets in Mile 12 area of the State while dehumanizing an artisan, Dahiru Lawal for allegedly breaking the wind

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#PresidentialMediaChat begins 7pm
12:44:01 PMIkenna Asomba

The maiden Presidential Media Chat of President Muhammadu Buhari will begin by 7.00pm today, in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

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Tuesday, 29 December 2015

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Ogun govt vows to pay workers promptly
4:00:59 PMAbiodun Alade

Ogun State Government, yesterday, pledged that it will ensure prompt payment of workers' salaries, benefits and pensions of retired officers.

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Ajimobi sets up panel to probe fire incidents
4:00:05 PMAbiodun Alade

FOLLOWING recurring fire disasters in major markets within Ibadan metropolis, the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, yesterday constituted a six-member panel of inquiry to investigate the fire incidents that gutted the Sango Igbajo Plank Market on Christmas Day and Monday.

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Borno/Adamawa Attacks: Fayose queries Minister's comments on 'technical defeat' of Boko Haram
3:18:51 PMIkenna Asomba

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has described the Sunday and Monday's Boko Haram attacks in Borno and Adamawa States as disheartening and an indictment on the All Progressives Congress (APC) federal government, saying that the Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed must explain to Nigerians how the same Boko Haram that he said had been "technically defeated" could carry out
such daring and deadly attacks.

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Spectacular photos from Calabar Carnival
3:14:49 PMFemi Ajasa

Spectacular photos from Calabar Carnival

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Liverpool Varsity online MPH receives APHEA accreditation
2:53:17 PMIkenna Asomba

The University of Liverpool's online Master of Public Health (MPH) programme has been accredited by the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA), a globally recognised accrediting body for masters-level public health programmes.

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Looming Subsidy Removal: NLC blows hot, convenes NEC meeting January
1:56:27 PMIkenna Asomba

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has put its state councils and affiliate unions on the notice for a showdown with the government over the removal of the fuel subsidy.

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Gov. Wada presents N74.9bn 'Budget of Consolidation'
1:48:51 PMAbiodun Alade

Gov. Wada presents N74.9bn Appropriation Bill for 2016 to assembly

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'I thank you all for standing by Audu/Faleke ticket'
1:41:14 PMadekunle

The duo of Mr. Emmanuel Enesi Ozigi, PPA governorship candidate in the last Kogi governorship election and Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, Deputy Governor-Elect of the state salute Kogites at Christmas and wish the state a better 2016.

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Sen. Sani will continue to criticise Gov. el-Rufai's "anti-people'' policies - Aide
1:35:38 PMAbiodun Alade

Malam Suleiman Ahmed, the Special Assistant to Sen. Shehu Sani (APC- Kaduna), on Politics and Ideology, says nothing will deter his principal from criticising the ``anti-people" policies of the state government.

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Boko Haram: Buhari vows to find missing Chibok girls
1:32:04 PMadekunle

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, said his administration would do everything within its power to ensure the safe return of the over 200 missing Chibok ?girls. The girls were in April 2014, abducted from the Federal Government Secondary school, Chibok, Borno State, by members of the Boko Haram terrorist sect. The

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Monday, 28 December 2015

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CD honours DPO, 4 others for wonderful service to humanity
3:54:03 PMAbiodun Alade

Anambra State chapter of Campaign for Democracy, CD, has honoured the Fegge Divisional Police Officer, DOP, Mr Rabiu Garba and four others as CD ambassadors, following to their wonderful, good and superlative service to humanity.

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DESOPADEC repositions for increased productivity
3:52:16 PMAbiodun Alade

Managing Director/Chief Executive Ofiicer, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Chief Williams Makinde, has said that to improve productivity and efficiency, all ethnic co-operative societies and cleavages have to be collapsed into one mega-co-operative society.

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Rep donates 150 bed sitter dormitory to orphanage
3:51:42 PMAbiodun Alade

MINORITY Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Leo Ogor, has donated a 150 bed sitter dormitory to the Human Welfare for Empowerment and Development Initiative, HWEDI, an orphanage in Irri community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State.

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Okowa condoles with Emefiele on mom's death
3:49:40 PMAbiodun Alade

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has commiserated with Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, on the demise of his mother, Late Mrs Alice Emefiele, who died on Christmas Day, aged 94.

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We'll defeat Boko Haram as planned, FG insists
3:49:22 PMFemi Ajasa

Lagos-The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has expressed optimism that despite the recent attacks by insurgent, the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari's would technically defeat Boko Haram before the end of this December deadline.

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Why Oshiomhole suspended me from office -Ex-Edo LG Chair
3:48:43 PMAbiodun Alade

SUSPENDED Chairman of Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, Mr. Osaro Obazee, has attributed his suspension from office by Governor Adams Oshiomhole to his closeness to a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. He also insisted that allegations levelled against him by the state government were fabricated to get him out of office.

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P-Harcourt Chamber of Commerce advocates diversified economy
3:45:44 PMAbiodun Alade

Worried by the dwindling oil revenue in the country, the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce has called for a diversified economy.

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DESOPADEC empowers 200 Ndokwa indigenes
3:42:30 PMAbiodun Alade

Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, has empowered over 200 indigenes of Ndokwa nationality with various categories of starter packs to enable them set up their own businesses and be self- sufficient.

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Arsenal go top of English Premier League
3:31:44 PMIkenna Asomba

Embattled Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal remains on the brink after his struggling side were held to a 0-0 draw by Chelsea, while Arsenal surged to the top of the Premier League with a 2-0 win over Bournemouth on Monday. At the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal rebounded from their 4-0 hammering at Southampton on Saturday

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Tinubu's canvass for subsidy removal
3:04:55 PMIkenna Asomba

THAT was one of the stanzas of Sir Walter Raleigh's final poems some times titled "The Lie". It was written on realising his impending death and that life is vanity and falsity in 1592. The satirical poem loaded with irony and metaphor threw up so much that was hidden in the political protests of January 2012 against the removal of fuel subsidy by the PDP led Federal Government.

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