The cab driver, a guy from Edo state, mistook me for a Ghanaian. I don’t mind it and I proudly embrace my assumed Ghanaian-ness seeing as the Ghanaians are currently beating Nigerian in every indicator of human progress. But come on, Edo guy, I can tell Ghanaians from Nigerians eight out of ten times; Senegalese...
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, upheld the election of Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State. In a unanimous judgement the five-man panel of Justices, led by Justice Rotimi Olukayode Bada dismissed the joint appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in the state, Mr. Timipre Sylva. The court...
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The NET is a site you should respect – it has broken significant stories in Nigerian entertainment, and has conducted respectable experiments in entertainment content across text, video and events. But sometimes, it finds itself terribly confused about what it is – or (again, four fingers might be pointing back into our past here) crossing...
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The Nigerian Navy has arrested a leader of the Niger Delta Avengers strike force responsible for blowing up pipelines, The Punch reports. The suspect Abraham Suru was arrested on Tuesday September 20, 2016 in the Sapele Area Council of Delta state. The suspect who hails from Ondo state was paraded before newsmen at the Warri Navy Base on...
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The Police in Abuja on Thursday teargassed some members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) popularly called Shiites for demanding the release of their leader Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The protest by the Shiites is coming a day after a panel set up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) accused the group of violating the...
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Leading African bank, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, has announced a casting call for the GTBank Fashion Weekend. In person casting calls to select runway models for the event will hold on September 28, 2016 at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos. The GTBank Fashion Weekend which is scheduled to take place on November 12 and 13, 2016, is...
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by Gideon Odoma You’d be the rare exception if you’ve never vocally or reflectively asked this question. I can still remember my frustration at the futility of my infantile philosophical gymnastics around this subject. As a teenager, I thought hard, long, frequently and fruitlessly on this mother of all questions: ‘Who created God?’ Till this...
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Senator Joshua Dariye on Thursday decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The former Plateau state governor who represents Plateau Central in the upper legislative chamber announced his decision during plenary. The Senate confirmed the development via its official Twitter account, @NGRSenate. Senator Joshua Chibi Dariye (Plateau Central) decamps...
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by Ugochukwu Nnamdi Ukamba Our colonial master by a close margin of votes, decided in June 2016 that it no longer wants to be tied to the apron strings of its brothers in the European Union. They have their reasons and we hope that history will be kind to them following their decision. On the...
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The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday said world leaders had a huge respect for President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Moon said this during a meeting with Buhari on the sidelines of the 71st General Assembly of the United Nations. He applauded Buhari for giving Nigeria a positive image and for his...
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A few days ago, it was the minister of state for agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri: The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has said that Nigeria spends about $22bn a year on importation of food. Lokpobiri made this known on Saturday at a town hall meeting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. He...
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Wizkid, Cassper Nyovest, AKA and Sauti Sol lead the pack in the first round of nominations for the forthcoming MTV Africa Music Awards Johannesburg 2016 (MAMA), with an impressive nine nominations between them. Fifty MAMA nominees including artists and achievers from 18 countries were revealed in 9 key music and lifestyle award categories by Viacom...
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Alex Okosi,
Cassper Nyovest,
diamond,
lagos,
Linda Ikeji,
mama,
Sauti Sol,
south africa,
Viacom,
wizkid
A High Court sitting in Yola, the Adamawa state capital has granted a N100 million naira bail to a former governor of the state, Bala Ngilari. Mr Ngilari was on Wednesday remanded in custody by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the order of the court. Justice Nathan Musa granted Ngilari bail in the...
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has condemned in strong terms the attempt by some detectives to arrest the Chairman of the League Management Company (LMC), Shehu Dikko. In a statement issued on Wednesday the Federation the attempt was a flagrant abuse of power. The statement said, “It has come to the notice of the Nigeria Football...
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Nigeria’s House of Representatives resumed from its annual recess yesterday, 21st September and its first sitting turned out to be a very dramatic one what with the massive hailing the Speaker received from the honourables when the budget padding issue was raised. Outside the walls of the chamber, a group of protesters brandished placards demanding...
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The Katsina state Police Command has arrested a 419 syndicate who dupe unsuspecting victims by presenting themselves as ‘spirits’. The suspects were paraded by the police on Thursday, Channels Television reports. Speaking to newsmen in Katsina, the state capital, the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Sanni Agaisa, alleged that the syndicate specialised in telling victims they could...
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The Nigerian Army has debunked claims by an online news media (not YNaija) that it arrested ten journalists on Thursday. In a statement issued by its spokesman Colonel Sani Usman, the Army said it arrested the persons in conjunction with operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). The statement said the persons upon arrest did...
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said it would still hold a worldwide protest on September 23 against the incarceration of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. In a statement by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the group said it would not back down, while urging Igbo’s to observe the protest. “As we make our positive statement...
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday said the government has been delaying and evading minimum wages talks. President of the NLC, Ayuba Abba said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, that the talks had not even started. “Uptil now, government is still dragging its feet on talks about...
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by Eketi Edima Ette Sometime in 2014, I had a week-long program to attend in Port Harcourt. I called ahead of time to confirm my booking at Hotel Presidential. When I arrived, I was tired and just wanted to get to my room and sleep. As soon as I stepped through the doors, I was...
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Every other day, a tweep puts out a thread on a subject matter of their contemplation. Today, it is Audu Maikori (@Audu), the Chocolate City Entertainment president dispensing advice on money matters. And Nigeria being in the throes of recession, any recommendations about handling money is welcomed. Hear, hear! 1. He who has the cash is...
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Do you remember Omran Daqneesh, the 5-year-old boy whose pictures went viral after his home in Aleppo was destroyed by airstrikes on the city? Alex, a 6-year-old American boy has written a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama offering him a place in his family. Obama quoted Alex’s words at the United Nations refugee summit....
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by Manasseh Egedegbe I don’t like assumptions, but when you don’t have enough data, and when you also have no idea what will happen to y when x happens, then you have to fall back on assumptions. So I decided to pull out my Excel Spreadsheet, after an interesting conversation with a good friend this...
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Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West on Thursday shocked the Senate when he revealed that telecom company, MTN has laundered over $12bn out of the country. While speaking at the plenary, Melaye said the company collaborated with a serving minister and 4 commercial banks to smuggle the funds. He stated that every loot from the...
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Bit of a rocky start we have here. “What is Denrele Edun?” No one asks that. Not if they are sub-Saharan African (thanks CNN Africa). Actually, no one asks that; irrespective of where they are from. You either know who Denrele is, or you don’t. If the latter is the case, then your only excuse...
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“The first time I held my boy after delivery, it was really devastating. I wept for days,” says Mrs. Elfrida Joseph Osuma, a mother to one of the children born without limbs. It is easy not knowing what it means to have a child born without limbs or to be a person living with a...
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Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has temporarily relocated his office to Bama, a town which was once the base of terrorist group, Boko Haram. The governor relocated on Wednesday as part of the commencement of reconstruction of the town destroyed by Boko Haram. Shettima said the town will be become the seat of Borno State government,...
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two suspects found with cocaine on the Nigeria-Brazil route at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. In a statement by the Head Public Affairs of the agency, Ofoyeju Mitchell on Thursday, it was stated that “the suspects inserted seven wraps of cocaine each weighing 350 grammes into their alimentary...
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Lagos State Chapter, the flagship branch of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has unveiled plans to deepen the skill-set of communication and media practitioners in new media with Lagos Digital PR Summit; first of its king in Sub Saharan Africa. In partnership with Microsoft, Google, TrendWatching, Red Media Africa and other leading corporate...
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Lagos Digital PR Summit,
microsoft,
nigeria,
NIPR,
NIPR Lagos,
Olusegun McMedal,
public relations,
Red Media Africa,
social media,
TrendWatching
The fifth edition of StartUP Friday programme of the Office for ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIIE), a subsidiary of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)has been scheduled for Friday 23 September, 2016 in Lagos. The event which will be holding for the first time in Lagos Nigeria promises to be eventful and impactful within the innovation...
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