by Kolade Gbolagade One thing about history is that it is written and re-written. It is a teacher to students who want to see beyond now and the imperfections of the past in order to have a better road to the future. The everyday political, economic and social activities in Nigeria is banked in history....
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by Tolu Omoyeni The National Assembly has been on recess since July 21 and has now postponed resumption from 13th till the 20th of this month. Why? They said Sallah break. For ordinary Nigerians, hustle resumes on the 14th, we can’t be sleeping through a recession. Don’t they say that while a man is asleep,...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said it would not do anything to mortgage Nigeria’s democracy and will therefore continue with Saturday’s Edo state governorship election. The Department of State Securities (DSS) and Police had called for the postponement of the election, stating that there could be security risks if the election takes place...
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The Nigerian premiere of the Ebola-inspired movie 93 Days holds on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 while the movie will screen at the cinemas from Friday, September 16, 2016. So if you are heading to the Rock Cathedral on Tuesday for the premiere or the cinemas on Friday, here are 7 things you should about the movie before...
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By Ibrahim Faruk Constitution review is a continuous process and has been on the front burner of national discourse since 1999. The 6th Assembly successfully passed three sets of alterations (amendments) to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the review process from 2007 – 2011. The 7th Assembly, however, was not as successful as...
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A road accident at Wasimi junction, Ewekoro Area of the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State on Thursday has claimed the life of one and left three injured. According to an eyewitness, a private car had taken the other lane instead of following the road diversion sign and had collided with a truck coming in the opposite direction....
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The Information Officer, Universal Basic Education Commission, Helen Okoro on Thursday revealed that the World Bank will be granting Nigeria $500 million to fund basic education in five states for five years In a statement in Abuja, Okoro said the Head, World Bank International Reconstruction and Development team, Dr. Olatunde Adekola revealed the information. She said Adekola...
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Thursday said the newly launched national reorientation campaign, “Change Begins With Me”, has no political, religious or ethnic undertone. The Minister said this at the inauguration of the campaign by President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja on Thursday. The minister said it had, “the sole objective...
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Armed Soldiers on Thursday invaded three Communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa state, according to the Leadership. The affected communities are Peremabiri, Akamabugo and Tikogbene where the soldiers allegedly destroyed over 43 houses and carted away three speed boats. One of the communities, Peremabiri, is the country home of a front line Former...
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The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation has said Nigerians should be weary of unauthorized Facebook accounts created by unknown elements and impersonating Ahmed Idris, the Accountant-General of the Federation. The warning was given in a statement by the Communication Officer Ifeanyi Okereke on behalf of the Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations. The statement confirmed...
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Earlier today, the Federal Government of Nigeria launched the National Re-orientation programme themed, ‘Change Begins with Me’. At the event, the permanent secretary of information and culture, Ayotunde Adesuwa, said that the onus of being the desired change lies squarely in our hands for we are the change that we seek. She went on to...
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As a novelist, I frequently experience the sensation that I could never invent imaginative events that, in their tragic or absurd extraordinariness, can stand beside the strangeness of life as it is lived in Nigeria. Indeed, I follow public events in Nigeria with a certain sense that some grand master of fiction, versed in absurd...
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by Joachim MacEbong Today, the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture launched the #ChangeBeginsWithMe campaign in Abuja, with a call to all Nigerians to shun reckless behaviour, social vices, and what have you. In many ways, this is a throwback to the War Against Indiscipline launched by the Buhari regime in 1984. It is true...
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by Kynene Nwaobasi We all know that one person who is stuck on a job they hate, or who is stuck studying a course that doesn’t even inspire them to breathe. And for some reason they feel obliged to engage in that activity even though they are fully aware of the fact that it makes...
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A spokesperson for the police in Kogi state have given reasons why Mohammed Audu, son of late governor of the state and other members of the family were arrested, Premium Times reports. According to the source simply identified as ASP Ovye, the family members were arrested by the police for alleged “culpable homicide, robbery and mischief”....
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Photography enthusiasts and professionals alike have a chance to compete and win in the Etisalat Photography Competition as entries for the 2016 edition have now been declared open. The Etisalat Photography Competition encourages the public to capture and celebrate fascinating pictures that reflect the diversity and daring spirit of our Nigeria. The competition kicks off...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that Saturday’s Edo State governorship election will hold as scheduled, The Punch reports. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, announced this during a press briefing at the state headquarters of the commission. There have been speculations as to whether the election will hold or not following a security report by...
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One of the lowest points of the Jonathan presidency was his boast to the international community that the measure of Nigeria’s well-being under his shepherding was to be seen in the ability of the emergency billionaires he created to overcrowd any foreign airport with private jets. He had hit Nairobi with a harem of such...
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Everyone in the media industry that pays attention to online conversation has been talking about Toyin Subair’s significant opus on why he failed with HiTV – an ambitious media experiment if there ever was. There was one even more ambitious, and just as consequential – and it was NEXT newspapers, founded by Pulitzer-prize winner and...
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For those who may bristle at DSTV’s dominance of Nigeria’s pay TV space, recall that HITV was once seen as their challenger. They made a big splash by winning the rights to the English Premier League for three seasons, but lost the rights at the expiration of that period to DSTV. That company folded up soon after, and...
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A former governor of Abia state Orji Uzor Kalu has said that Nigerians should be enjoying power supply by now if only former president Olusegun Obasanjo listened to his advice. Kalu made the claim when he hosted some Catholic Bishops and the diplomatic community at his Abuja home on Wednesday. He said Nigerians should not...
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday launched the “Change begins with me” campaign, a campaign geared towards causing an attitudinal change in Nigerians. The launch powered by the Ministry of Information and Culture held at the Presidential Banquet hall, Aso Villa. Dignitaries at the launch include the minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Director-General National Orientation Agency,...
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The decay in our society has permeated through all the structures and values that were instilled in children by parents back in the day, no longer hold water now. Bad guys win and good guys serve the bad guys. This tweep sheds light on the issues that surround integrity and its non-existence in politics and...
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Yet as hard as the Obama/Clinton/Kerry triumverate may try to cover it up, it appears that the message about the real situation in Buhari’s Nigeria is beginning to get across to the world As a glaring example of this permit me to share the words of a strong Trump supporter, Republican Congressman Tom Marino, which...
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Africa Check got a bit popular in this market for its story correcting (another) of Kaduna governor, Nasir el-Rufai’s incorrect (some people would say wild) claims – this time about Kaduna’s gold deposits. Founded in 2012, many news platforms across the country have come to respect them for the important, and rare work that they...
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So high-profile media entrepreneur, best known for the high-profile failure of HiTV, Toyin Subair wrote this. (We tl;dr-ed it for you here). And Nigerians on Twitter (because Nigeria is not America where you can rehabilitate your image in peace via a thoughtful piece) came for him with these: The ambivalent. Toyin Subair: HiTV 101 If there’s...
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The former chief executive officer of the failed HiTV (High Television, for long) put up a post on LinkedIn in August that we just came across and that every media entrepreneur who wants to do big things (like ELTV, NN24, Channels TV scale big things that require risk, and hard slog) needs to read. HiTV...
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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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High Television (also known as HiTV) was a Entertainment Highway’s multi-channel digital satellite television service launched in Nigeria in 2007. Founded by Toyin Subair, HiTV gave South African based company DSTV, owned by Multichoice, its biggest competition till date. It was the first television platform in Africa to deploy Hypercable, a terrestrial pay-per-view TV decoder...
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has assured Nigerians that the Nigerian Army is fully ready to put an end to every act of criminality in the Niger Delta region. He also said that the activities of militants in the creeks of Bakassi and Akpabuyo Local Government Areas of Cross River State...
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