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25Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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CoronaVirus: Commission Suspends Meeting, Staff Verification

By Dayo Omoogun The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Monday postponed till further notice its 8th plenary meeting scheduled for today, Tuesday and today Wednesday. (more…)

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24Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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CoronaVirus: Atiku Junior Had Contact with 6 Persons in Lagos, Says Family

By Mohammed Mohammed The former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said his son who had tested positive to the CoronaVirus otherwise called COVID-19 (more…)

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24Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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FG Inaugurates C’ttee on WTISD-20 Day

By Dwelleth Morountodun The federal government through the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy on Monday inaugurated the ministerial committee for the World Telecommunication (more…)

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24Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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N100m Election Campaign Fraud: EFCC Docks Fake Atiku’s Aide

By Frank Momoh The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kaduna Zonal Office has arraigned one Alhaji Modu Ali Kotoko (more…)

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24Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Breaking…Bauchi Governor Mohammed Tests Positive to CoronaVirus

By Mohammed Mohammed The Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Bala Mohammed has joined the swelling list of high profile Nigerians coming down and been diagnosed positive of the deadly CoronaVirus. (more…)

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23Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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NNPC Posts N5.28b Surplus for Dec 2019

Dayo Omoogun The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a N5.28b trading surplus for the month of December 2019. (more…)

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23Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Atiku: With the Nigerian spirit, we Can Overcome Corona Virus, Tough challenges

By Frank Momoh Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakara, has said that with the discharged Italian index case of Corona Virus in the country after testing negative for the disease (more…)

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23Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Coronavirus: Edo Shuts Down Schools

By Frank Momoh Following the upswing of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the country, the Edo State Government has directed that all schools in the state, (more…)

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23Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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CoronaVirus: IG Warns against Unnecessary Arrest of Suspects

...Tasks AIGs on Social Restrictions Orders By Seun Adams (more…)

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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COVID-19: CBN, Bankers Committee, Partner to Boost Pharmaceutical Sector

By Dayo Omoogun Rising from an extra-ordinary meeting held in Lagos on Saturday, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bankers Committee have pledged funding support both in local and foreign currencies to pharmaceutical companies in the country in order to boost local drugs production. (more…)

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21Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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CoronaVirus: FRSC Cautions against Overloading of Passengers

By Seun Adams As part of efforts to sustain the advocacy campaigns to curtail the spread of coronavirus through overloading of vehicles with passengers, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has admonished all drivers of vehicles to carry only one person at the front and not more than three in a row of the vehicles. (more…)

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20Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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FG Urges Nigerians to Imbibe Culture of Tax Payment

By Mohammed Mohammed The Federal Government has called on all Nigerians with means of livelihood to imbibe the culture of tax payment as part of measures aimed at improving the socio-economic transformation of the country. (more…)

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19Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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FAAC Meeting Inconclusive

By Dayo Omoogun The meeting of the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting ended in a stalemate yesterday.  The press briefing where the outcomes of the meeting (more…)

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19Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Aregbesola Restates Government’s Determination to End Insurgency in N-east

By Dwelleth Morountodun The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, has restated the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari Administration to continue to secure the lives and property of all Nigerians. (more…)

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17Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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CoronaVirus: Lawan Wants More Test Centres Established

By Mohammed Mohammed The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday called on government to establish more test centres across the country for quick detection of the dreaded Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. (more…)

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16Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Abule-Adu Explosion: NNPC Halts Pumping, Fully Mobilised to Cut Losses

By Dayo Omoogun The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has promptly mobilized its relevant emergency management personnel to the scene of the conflagration (more…)

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15Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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DSS Refutes Killing Guddare, Buhare’s Alleged Attacker at Argungu

By Mohammed Mohammed The Department of State Services (DSS) over the weekend refuted I sinuation making the rounds that presidential details killed the intruder that tried to break the security cordon to attack the President and Commander-in-Chief, Muhammadu Buhari, at Argungu, Kebbi State on 12th March 2020. (more…)

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14Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Internal Security: FG Unveils 3,000 Capacity Correctional Centre in FCT

By Mohammed Mohammed The Federal Government, during the weekend unveiled a 3,000-capacity maximum security custodial centre in Karshi, Federal Capital Territory. (more…)

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14Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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AI Says 640 Allegedly Killed at Giwa Barrack Yet to Get Justice

By Frank Momoh Amnesty International Nigeria (AI), has averred that the Nigerian authorities have failed families of 640 recaptured detainees of Giwa Barracks allegedly slaughtered by soldiers of the Nigerian army exactly six years ago. AI in a statement made available to SHARPEDGENews during the weekend, said in 14 March 2014 Boko Haram attacked the Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri. They reportedly fought their way into the detention facilities and freed several hundred detainees. The Human Rights body, said itbreceived credible evidence that as the military regained control, more than 600 people, mostly unarmed recaptured detainees, were extra-judicially executed in various locations across Maiduguri. “We have repeatedly called on Nigerian authorities to initiate independent and effec...

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13Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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2020 JAMB UTME BEGINS

Dayo Omoogun The 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Computer Based Test (CBT) will commence tomorrow Saturday, March 14th,2020 at various centres across the nation. (more…)

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