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143 stories for TalkGlitz, 2020–2023.
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The All Progressives Congress has on Friday declared the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, and two others ineligible to contest in the July 22 governorship primary election in Edo State. The disqualification was…
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has ordered the immediate isolation of a former Commissioner for Information in the State, Chief Abia Onyike, for violating the COVID-19 lockdown law. The governor stated this while…
In commemoration of the 2020 Democracy Day celebrated on June 12, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has granted amnesty to 28 inmates of the Nigeria Correctional Custodial Centres in the state. Governor…
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON DEMOCRACY DAY, JUNE 12TH 2020 Read the speech by the President below: Fellow Nigerians, 1. The 2020 celebration of Democracy Day marks 21 years of uninterrupted civil…
Sale of Interest and Nomination form to Ondo Governorship aspirants eyeing the All Progressives Congress (APC) party’s ticket ahead of the party’s primary will begin June 11th. The Independent National Electoral…
The federal government of Nigeria has commended Heritage Bank for being part of a valuable private sector collaboration with Dukia Gold & Precious Metals Refining Co. Limited, saying the partnership will pave way for…
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed June 25, for the arraignment of two supermarkets and pharmacies charged for hiking prices of key hygiene products such as hand sanitizer and face masks. The Federal Competition…
Some protesters in Yantumaki town, Damusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, on Tuesday burnt down a campaign billboard of the All Progressives Congress (APC), with the pictures of the President Muhammadu Buhari…
Taiwan, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 donated another consignment of 100,000 medical masks to Nigeria in support of the country’s effort to contain the spread of the COVID 19 pandemic. The Representative of Taiwan in…
The government of Burundi on Tuesday announced the “unexpected” death of President Pierre Nkurunziza. The government revealed in a tweeted statement that he died after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was admitted to…
The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, has said, during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja on Monday, that schools may reopen in the country after the ban on interstate movement…
Nigeria on Tuesday recorded its highest daily COVID-19 infections with 663 new case, bringing the total number of infected persons in the country to 13,464. The number of new cases was released by the Nigeria Centre for…
Minneapolis judge set a $1 million bail for police officer, Derek Chauvin on Monday, as he made his first court appearance charged with the murder of George Floyd, the 46-year-old African-American man whose death caused…
Six staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have been confirmed positive for COVID-19. The commission disclosed this on its Twitter handle on Monday. The six staff were said to be workers in the office of…
Nigeria and Israel have agreed to sign a bilateral agreement in the area of Methanol Fuel Production Technology that would be of mutual benefit to both countries. This was disclosed on Monday when the Israeli Ambassador…
The Federal Government has declared Friday, June 12 as public holiday to mark 2020 Democracy Day. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, who made the announcement on behalf of the Federal Government,…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed door with Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the agenda of the meeting…
Two Ebonyi state Executive Council members who tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and discharged from the isolation centre. Professor Ogbonnaya Chukwu, who is the Commissioner for Finance and Economic…
Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has released N10 million in support of the burial of the victims of Thursday’s robbery attack in the Yagba East Local Government Area of the state, which claimed not less than seven…
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has disclosed that candidates who wrote the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to print their result notification slips. Fabian Benjamin, the…
