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Supreme Court speaks on allegation linking justice’s Benin visit to Edo election case
Premium Times
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June 14, 2025
The Supreme Court has dismissed as “false and malicious” reports circulating on social media and some online platforms alleging that one of its justices visited Benin City in connection with a political case currently pending before it. In a...
Primate Ayodele releases fresh prophecies on presidents of Cameroon, Uganda, Togo, Benin Republic, others
Eagle Online
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June 14, 2025
Primate Ayodele releases fresh prophecies on presidents of Cameroon, Uganda, Togo, Benin Republic, others The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has released new prophecies concerning the presidents of several...
NECO conducts common entrance exams as Benin, Togo participate
Punch
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June 14, 2025
No fewer than 64,000 candidates from Nigeria, Benin Republic and Togo on Saturday participated in the National Common Entrance Examination for admission into Federal Government Colleges. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the examination is...
Supreme Court dispels rumours over Justice’s visit to Benin city
Tribune Online
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June 14, 2025
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed reports circulating on social media and some online platforms alleging that one of its Justices travelled to Benin City in connection with a recently filed political case before the Court. In a press...
64,000 Candidates From Nigeria, Togo, Benin Sit For 2025 NCEE
New Telegraph
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June 14, 2025
Share A total of 64,000 candidates from Nigeria, the Republic of Benin, and Togo on Saturday sat for the 2025 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO), in a bid to secure admission into...
Foreign Minister Valtonen To Meet Ministers From Kenya, Benin, Costa Rica And Thailand
MENAFN
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June 14, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) HELSINKI, Finland, June 14, 2025/APO Group/ -- Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen will meet Prime Cabinet Secretary of Kenya Musalia Mudavadi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Benin Olushegun...
NECO: 64,000 candidates take common entrance exam in Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo
Daily Post
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June 14, 2025
No fewer than 64,000 candidates from Nigeria, Benin Republic, and Togo have participated in the 2025 National Common Entrance Examination, NCEE, for admission into Federal Government Colleges, conducted by the National Examinations Council, NECO....
“All I got was a handshake, I was flying first class while he was in economy” – Portable recounts first meeting with Peter Obi (Video)
Kemi Filani News
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June 14, 2025
Controversial Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known by his stage name Portable, has recounted his first experience with former governor and presidential candidate Peter Obi. In a video captured online, the street singer said he only...
Fiscal Expenditure: N39bn ICC cost can build 312 health centres, 1,200 classrooms
Daily Trust
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June 14, 2025
Fourteen months after the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja was shut down for renovation, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, alongside the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, inaugurated the rehabilitated facility on Tuesday, with pomp and...
Unity Schools: Lagos Records Highest Number as 64,000 Candidates Sit for Exams in Nigeria, Benin, Togo
This Day
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June 15, 2025
Kuni Tyessi in Abuja The National Examinations Council (NECO) yesterday disclosed that Lagos State recorded the highest number of candidates that sat for the 2025 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) for admission into Federal Government...
Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News June 14
New Telegraph
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June 14, 2025
Share Here is Saturday Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Saturday, June 14, 2025 Bayelsa PDP Describes Tinubu As Beacon Of Hope As Nigerians still bask in the Euphoria of Democracy Day Celebration,...
Edo governorship election: Tinubu, governors, others hail Okpebholo’s victory
Alexa.ng
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July 11, 2025
President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Southern Governors’ Forum, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Nyesom Wike and others have hailed the Supreme Court judgment that affirmed the victory of Governor Monday...
I left Labour Party to APC because I need stability — Sen. Imasuen
New National Star
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July 10, 2025
POLITICS INTERVIEW …..Says Atiku, Amaechi, El-Rufai are spent forces In Nigerian politics, where shifting party loyalties often mirror the chaos of the times, few politicians can lay claim to the kind of backstage-to-spotlight transformation as...
Okowa confirms Dynamic meet test ahead of African Junior Champs
Punch
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July 9, 2025
President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Tonobok Okowa, has confirmed that Nigeria’s junior relay teams will compete at the AFN/Dynamic Athletics Meet scheduled for today (Thursday) at the Yaba College of Technology Sports Complex in...
STATEMENT: 8 African Nations Commit to 100% Sustainable Ocean Management
World Resources Institute
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YAOUNDÉ (July 11, 2025) – Yesterday, eight African nations — Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria — adopted the Yaoundé Declaration, committing to sustainably manage 100% of ocean areas...
Real and fake antidotes to Trump's latest tariffs, seen from South Africa
CADTM
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July 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base –...
African rail connection: A path to multimodal freight optimisation
Rail Freight
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July 11, 2025
Africa is home to some of the fastest-growing economies globally, and there is an urgent need to expand its infrastructure to ensure this growth aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With rapid urbanisation and population increases...
$1.5bn Lekki Port Begins Cargo Transhipments To Togo, Ghana, Others
Leadership
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July 11, 2025
The $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Seaport has started international transhipment of cargoes to neighbouring West African countries such as Togo, Benin Republic, Abidjan and Ghana. The Port, on Thursday, disclosed that it initiated efforts to ramp up...
Harmattan hazards: How coastal west Africa can escape the Sahel’s fate
European Council on Foreign Relations
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July 10, 2025
Summary Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo, are under pressure from two threats: jihadists and putschists. In these west African coastal states, armed Islamist groups increasingly cross northern borders, wreaking havoc. Civilian governments are...
Lekki Port to expand transshipment to W’African ports, eastern Nigeria
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 11, 2025
Lekki Deep Seaport has established international transshipment links to key West African ports, including Tema in Ghana, Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, Lomé in Togo and Cotonou in the Benin Republic. The $1.5 billion deep seaport also plans to expand...