$500 million – The amount pledged by the World Bank to five Northern states through the Universal Basic Education scheme. $458 million – The amount to be returned from the loot stashed away by former President Sani Abacha in the United States. N24.5 billion – The amount consolidated by the Kaduna State Government in its...
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by Eromo Egbejule You hear a lot of stories about North-East Nigeria, a slice of the country that has been at war since 2009, at the hands of Boko Haram. But we have largely only heard a single story. Sending a reporter across 7 cities, we tell a more complete story – personal tales of...
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FRSC promises to begin the implementation if it’s speed limiters on the 1st of October, 2016 What we should all know about the devices before implementation starts. From October 1st, The Federal Road Safety Corps will start to enforce the use of speed limiters. The FRSC Corps Marshall confirmed this recently at a public enlightenment forum in...
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The Federal Road Safety Corps says 11,436 persons lost their lives as a result of road accidents across Nigeria in 2014 and 2015. According to the Head of Policy, Research and Statistics, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr. Kayode Olagunju, who disclosed this on Saturday at the Cross River State Command in Calabar, 68.7 per cent of...
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Paul provides the most outrageous justification for sin in the entire bible. Why are some Christians so upset when we question Paul’s epistles? Why do they become abusive when we demonstrate painstakingly that Paul’s doctrine is at variance with Jesus’? The reason is simple; many Christians are Christians not because of Jesus but because of...
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Time changes everything. My barber voted for change last year. Which means he voted for Candidate Muhammadu Buhari. After Buhari’s inauguration and the stable power supply that followed, he felt justified. “Power has become regular in just a few months,” he said triumphantly. Over time, though, he has transformed from Buhari’s admirer to critic. Last...
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This year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is playing host to Nigeria’s film industry, Nollywood in its first major debut on a world stage of this sort. Artistic director of TIFF, Cameron Bailey paid a visit to Lagos at the start of the year and was stunned by the growth in the industry, the quality...
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Former Minister of Education and Co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Campaign, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has said the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris owe an apology to the group as well as Nigerians for disrupting the BBOG march to the Aso Villa on Tuesday. The group was protesting the inability of the Federal Government...
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians to have faith in the country as the current economic recession will soon give way to economic prosperity. The APC chieftain said many things had been done wrongly by past leaders in the country, so there is need for patience before Nigerians can see tangible changes in its economy....
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The Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has said that there is no point or reason to keep operating a policy that is wrong and not working. He said the idea of borrowing to finance the Nigerian economy is unsustainable. Sanusi, a one-time governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria said this in a post on his...
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An armless man died on the spot in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital on Saturday when he fell from a moving train. The tragic incident occurred at about 9:10am around Post Office area, GRA, Ilorin when the Lagos to Kano train took off from the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) station in Ilorin. The victim was said...
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A militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM) on Saturday night said it would make a statement to intimidate the ongoing “Operation Crocodile Smile” being carried out by the military in the Niger Delta. NDGJM said it will blow up oil facilities as it accused the military of engaging in random arrests. The group, which claimed...
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The 55-year-old female pilgrim, Binuyo Basira Iyabo arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) last week, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, has excreted the remaining wraps of cocaine she ingested. The suspect, excreted the six remaining wraps bringing the total to 82 wraps of cocaine weighing 931 grammes with a street value estimated...
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Five Nigerian male football referees who participated at the FIFA Physical Fitness Test held at the main bowl of the National stadium Abuja on Saturday have failed the test. The match officials are among the 16 ungraded FIFA referees invited by the Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) for a possible upgrade. The NRA invited seven male and...
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The Director-General of the National Orientation Agency, Garba Abari, has expressed delight at the lack of “free money” in the country due to the slump in oil prices. He said the situation would make us look inwards and quit being consumers. Abari said, “Happily, the country is broke, if we had lived a life of...
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by Usman Alabi The first time Raphael Afaedor was in Nigeria, he came in as a staff of the Notore Chemical Industries, a fertilizer company. He might not have known what fate had for him at that time, but Raphael was definitely not a kind of man who would lie low in the face obvious...
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Nigeria’s Esther Oyema has gotten the third medal for the country at the ongoing 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio on Saturday. Oyema won silver in the women’s -55 kg powerlifting event finishing behind Mexican, Amalia Perez and Chinese, Xiao Cuijan. She failed in her first attempt at 127kg, but lifted it in her second attempt. Her...
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Star actress, Genevieve Nnaji is one of the Nollywood headliners at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). She arrived Toronto in a casual black dress and we totally cannot wait to see what she has in her wardrobe for the rest of the festival. In a throwback photo she shared on her Instagram two...
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The United Nations has said Nigeria is on the brink of a famine unlike any we’ve ever seen before. The number of Boko Haram refugees fleeing from war torn cities into IDP camps are nearing a million. According to reports, feeding these people and their children is becoming increasingly difficult. Almost a quarter of a...
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The Nigerian Navy on Saturday said it has arrested 7 suspected oil thieves in the Escravos axis of Delta State. This was revealed in a statement by the Director of Information of the Nigerian Navy, Commodore Christian Ezekobe. According to Ezekobe, 6 of the suspects were arrested during a raid by a team at Escravos,...
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#AsoVillaDemoDay (AVDD) is a Federal Government entrepreneurship encouragement platform, not unlike the Goodluck Jonathan You Win initiative. The You Win was launched in 2011 and is similar to the AVDD in the sense that both are initiatives by sitting administrations that get abandoned the moment power changes hands–a very Nigerian thing, you see. But, the AVDD...
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Nasarawa State Commissioner of Information, Barrister Tim Yigga on Saturday warned prisoners in the state not to attempt jailbreak. He made the call on Saturday at Keffi Prison in Keffi Local Government Area (LGA) when he led a team set up by the government to inspect prisons in the state. He told inmates that ”they...
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Following the postponement of the Edo state governorship election, the candidate of KOWA Party, Thompson Osadolor, has withdrawn from the race. Osadolor confirmed this on Saturday stating that the postponement has destabilized his campaign. He said, “I am not satisfied with the postponement of the election. They (INEC) knew that we would win the election;...
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Barely a week after the Nigerian economy officially entered into a recession, the Presidency has announced that it would receive loans form the World Bank, China’s Exim Bank, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency. The loans, according to the presidency, are long-term loans with 1.25 percent interest rates over the space of 20 years and will...
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The status quo in Nigeria is not exactly giving us so much hope right now; with a recession that has moved from being a mere technicality, to a word (albeit out of context) when it has actually been mostly a reality all along. There’s also looming danger that former President Obasanjo won’t stop talking and...
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The Nigerian Army 33 Brigade said it has killed seven suspected kidnappers in Bauchi state. In a statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman on Saturday, the army said the suspected kidnappers were killed at Lame Burra Forrest near Dursen Ganye, Gunduru and Kati Layin villages, Bauchi. According to the statement,...
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Manchester United coach, Jose Mourinho is set to stir up a storm as the new UEFA Champions League season first round of matches kick off on Tuesday, September 13. Mourinho who is known for his passionate display during matches and controversial utterances against opponents, especially his opposite number at Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, is expected to...
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The constant stream of bad news on the state of the economy, nay the state of the nation leaves one feeling down in the dumps. And there is no one else to blame other than ourselves. I am not proud to say: some of us saw it coming. We shouted ourselves hoarse warning the electorate...
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Brian e Ebden, a creative consultant based in Lagos has given an insight into how the ‘Change Begins with Me’ campaign, launched on Thursday, September 8, 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, was birthed. Ebden who boasts of 16-years advertising experience in South Africa and Nigeria released a statement refuting claims by some individuals that...
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By Cynthia Ferdinand The recent commissioning of the much talked about Abuja-Kaduna rail line by President Muhammadu Buhari with his pictures riding on first class cabin, which took the internet by storm there by arousing my journalistic instincts. There is no doubt, of course, it was a promise kept. With the official handover to the...
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