The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru. SERAP was responding to allegations made by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu against Baru. What happened: Kachikwu in a letter to President Buhari had claimed the NNPC GMD was...
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Still reeling from the NBC News Wednesday report alleging that the Secretary of State called President Trump a moron and almost resigned in July – a development which steered controversies and painted the cyberspace, President Donald Trump has once again bemused the activities of the media house. Trump, who shortly after the release of the...
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I am glad I experienced one of the few times reliefs were brought to the community, that faithful day in the afternoon, the news spread like wild fire. As though like everyone was expecting a guest. On bikes, in keke-napeps, and on feet proceeded to a muster point where trucks carrying all sorts; bags...
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Sewese, 37, is a civil servant at the Ministry of Information with a fish farming business on the side. Having gone without receiving remuneration for her day job for about 8 months, Sewese had lived satisfactorily with the revenue from her fish farming. She reared cat fish which are then sold to retailers and wholesalers....
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President Trump has said the United States of America’s economy is experiencing an upward swing. The President echoed the decrease in unemployment, stock market growth and an increased enthusiasm among manufacturers. He wrote, “Stock Market hits an ALL-TIME high! Unemployment lowest in 16 years! Business and manufacturing enthusiasm at highest level in decades!” Stock Market hits...
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The Senate has announced that it has begun work on President Muhammadu Buhari’s virement request – Bukola Saraki has therefore referred the request to Committee on Appropriations. Osinbajo had in July, submitted the N135.6 billion virement proposal to the National Assembly – a period when he was the Acting President; as Buhari was receiving treatment...
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Being Mary Jane star, Gabrielle Union-Wade is one of the happiest people on the planet. Two ways you can tell? First is …
Two members of the House of Representatives, Zephaniah Jisalo (AMAC/Bwari federal constituency, FCT) and Yusuf Tijjani (Okene/Ogori-Magogo federal constituency, Kogi) have defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Highlights: The duo informed the House of their defection in separate letters read on the floor by the speaker, Yakubu Dogara. They...
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English author, Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday, for what the prize committee in Sweden said were works that uncovered “the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro pic.twitter.com/j9kYaeMZH6 — The Nobel Prize...
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Since the floods, Susan, 31, and her mother-in-law, 55, have lived in the IDP camp at the Ultramodern International market. Together with 3 of her kids and 2 brothers-in-law, the women have shared one of the 300 store-turned-rooms set aside for flood victims inside the market complex. The ultramodern market on Owners Occupiers road in...
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Nigerian American writer, Nnedi Okorafor has announced that she will be writing a 3-issue storyline of Black Panther for Marvel. We can exclusively say it is going to be exciting. Now ask, why? Okorafor, 43, is a World Fantasy-, Hugo-, and Nebula Award-winning novelist! Let’s give a brief citation: Okorafor’s first adult novel, Who Fears Death won the...
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Remember that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad that had all of Black Twitter (all of America, really) up in arms because it made a mockery of the Black Lives Matter movement and the suffering of blacks at the hands of policemen in general? [In case you forgotten]: “This is how Twitter dragged Kendall Jaja for offensive...
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“Thank God no life was lost!” There are six structures in Moses’ compound – about 5km into Welfare Quarters, well known as a sodden area in Makurdi. Two of the buildings belong to his younger brother, who wasn’t around when the houses got flooded. “Thank God no life was lost”, Moses, a businessman...
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The premier edition of Facebook’s Women in Technology event held on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, at the Co-Creation Hub, Yaba, Lagos. The event was designed by Facebook to engage with influential Nigerian women working in Lagos’ technology ecosystem and to share Facebook’s mission on diversity. Guests at the invite-only event shared personal experiences of how...
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says three container loads of fake drugs alongside seized cables and other contraband were intercepted in Lagos – all valued at over N356 million. Details: The Area Controller of the Unit, Mohammed Garba said the items (drugs which include Acipep, Lemdafil and Ciprogyl) were seized by officers of federal operation unit (FOU) zone ‘A’ in...
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Three U.S. Army Green Berets were killed and two more wounded in the southern Niger, while a group of about 10 to 12 American military men were accompanying Nigerien soldiers on a regular patrol late Wednesday. L Site of attack According to New York Times, the ambush occurred about 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of...
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by Cynthia Ogidi In the middle of the excitement generated by the planned launch of TSTV, a cable TV provider whose unique selling point is pay-as-you view proposition, Nigerian subscribers have begun to sing discordant tunes. While some are excited about the promise of extra values that transcend the current realities in the sector, some...
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We would have loved to say that it is with excitement that we bring you another one of YNaija’s citizenship stories but you’ll agree that it is extremely difficult to be excited about the plight of Nigerians in Benue State right now. There hasn’t been much cause for positive excitement in Nigeria’s food basket for close...
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The family of Asta, the wife of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has said that their daughter got married to the IGP publicly at the Sultan Bello Mosque, Kaduna. Background: Senator Isa Misau Wednesday, on the floor of the Senate, alleged that the IGP married Asta secretly in Kaduna after allegedly impregnating her. Reaction:...
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We’re certain you’ve seen the teaser for the sequel to 2016’s Nollywood blockbuster movie, The Wedding Party. But if you haven’t, then here: That you already love it and can’t wait for it to hit the cinemas in December is an indisputable fact. See your comments and those of your fellow country people here: And...
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The House Homeland Security Committee has approved a $10 billion funding package for President Donald Trump’s cherished border wall construction, likely to be attached to the pipeline new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) legislation. • Committee chairman’s elaboration In a statement obtained by Breitbart, the committee chairman Michael McCaul said, “We have been talking...
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The Nigerian Army has launched a free medical outreach in Ovim, Isuikwuato Local Government Area, Abia, as an integral part of the ongoing Operation Python Dance II exercise. Highlights: A statement signed by the Deputy Director of Public Relations, 82 Division, Col. Sagir Musa said that the programme followed a directive by the Chief of Army...
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Following President’s Trump contemplated effort of wiping Puerto Rico’s debt so as to facilitate the rebuilding of the island, Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello has however told bondholders not to worry and help in the restoration of the Hurricane damaged territory. • Plea to bondholders Puerto Rico’s debt of $72 billion coupled with the aftermath...
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There has been what is suspected to be a Monkeypox outbreak in Bayelsa. The state health team and Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, have confirmed that at least 11 people have already been infected with the virus and currently quarantined, while about 49 others who have come in contact with the infected are being...
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Stephen Paddock, the 64-year-old shooter responsible for the worst mass shooting in modern US history has been revealed by Vegas police to have craftily planned the attack, acquired weapons over a decade and lived a secret life. A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent while speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, however said, “there was...
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by Femi Fani-Kayode I have little doubt that Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Energy, regrets the day that he left the relative comfort of the private sector and entered the stormy waters of Nigerian politics. I am sure that he curses the day that he met President Muhammadu Buhari, that...
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Here are the biggest stories that made the rounds in entertainment yesterday and others that unraveled while you slept – and are still buzzing this Thursday morning. Here’s how comedians, Koffi and Omobaba feel about Psquare’s fight https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ1RqemlQ1Q/?taken-by=officialhiptv Yvonne Jegede Fawole shuts down reports of miscarriage Nollywood actress, Yvonne Jegede Fawole has rejected unfounded...
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The Kaduna Restoration Group (KRG) has accused the Governor of Kaduna, Nasir el-Rufai, of trying to orchestrate his second term. Reference: Buhari has endorsed my second term in 2019 – El-Rufai. Highlights: A statement jointly signed by Alhaji Ahmed Tijjani Ramalan and Prof. Yusuf Dankofa, chairman and secretary respectively, of the group, read, “We are...
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CLB Academy a subsidiary of Centre for Law and Business, in collaboration with Qtaby Events presents CLB Academy Spelling Bee Competition 2017, a competition aimed at encouraging academic excellence and a healthy competitive spirit amongst primary and secondary school students. The primary objective of the competition is to improve syntax and semantics in students and...
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Following the lingering stalemate recorded in the Brexit negotiations, the U.K. government is preparing itself to leave the European Union without a deal if Brexit talks fail, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday. The prime minister who has peddled the mantra “no deal is better than a bad deal,” has conferred with her team...
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