Opposition parties in Nigeria on Saturday said the police must probe budget padding allegations in the House of Representatives, playing down attempt by the All Progressives Congress to internally resolve the scandal. In different interviews with Punch, the leadership of the Accord Party, Action Alliance, KOWA Party, Social Democratic Party, Advanced Congress of Democrats and the...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said a proposal to limit its powers made by the president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Abubakar Mahmoud was aimed at creating “a cabal of untouchables”. In a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren on Saturday, the EFCC rejected the proposal, saying some members of the NBA are “rogues and vultures”....
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Why is Nigeria like this — I mean grossly underdeveloped? I’ve been asking this question all my life. And until Nigeria exits the underdevelopment club, it is one question that will remain relevant. I believe that it is in asking this central question, and in attempting to provide well-reasoned answers, that we can begin to...
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Former Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo on Saturday promised to secure bail for many inmates of the Ikoyi Prisons, especially those awaiting trial through his Foundation. Yobo made the promise at the inauguration of the Ikoyi Prisons Football in Lagos. He said, “I have never been to the prisons before but on getting to Ikoyi...
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Indications emerged on Saturday that the police in its ongoing investigations over alleged budget padding in the House of Representatives would search documents and computers at the secretariat of the Appropriation Committee. The former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin had accused Speaker Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of padding the 2016...
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A faction of the Niger Delta Avengers on Saturday listed Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu in its team of negotiators with the Federal Government. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Ballantyne Agiri and released on Saturday, the faction representing the eastern and central parts of the region...
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dialogue,
Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu,
faction,
Federal Government,
Inienimi Ballantyne Agiri,
NDA,
Niger Delta,
Niger Delta Avengers,
peace,
Prof. Wole Soyinka
A 15-year-old boy, identified as Umar Alhassan has been arrested by the Niger State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps for allegedly supplying cannabis to some residents in the state. The command on Saturday said the suspect who was arrested along Gidan Mongoro Bida Road was also in possession of fake N1,000 and N500 bills amounting...
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Following a protest by Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno on Thursday over lack of food, the State Government, on Saturday distributed 6, 000 bags of rice and other food items to the IDPs. The distributed food items include, 1, 500 bags and cartons each of beans, noodles, maize grits and condiments for seasoning. The...
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OAP Freeze has been fired by Cool FM. No jokes, there’s a picture proof on the internet. The loose-lipped OAP was laid off by AIM Group, the owners of Cool FM in an email sent to other members of staff. They even gave him an exit date: 26th August, 2016. So by our calculation, OAP...
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Mavin Record artiste, Reekado Banks has received a car for winning the Headies 2016 ‘Next Rated’ award. His announcement at the award event 8 months go generated a lot of controversy after YBNL’s Olamide went on a rant claiming the award should have gone to Lil’ Kesh instead. That issue was later resolved with Olamide...
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Can wonders really ever end in Nigeria? Each day with its own drama. Just when a boring news day was about to end, the EFCC popped up on headlines serving ludicrous comments to reporters about their detention facility. So in June, a suspect who had allegedly conned a victim out of N91million died in EFCC...
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The father of a two-year-old girl who was kidnapped by a suspected female kidnapper in the Maza-Maza area of Lagos state on Friday has narrated how his daughter was kidnapped. Speaking to newsmen, the man, identified simply as Mr Idowu said his daughter, Christiana Idowu was abducted on her way to summer lesson when the...
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Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Adamu Ciroma has said that anybody who wants to breakaway from Nigeria is free to do so. Ciroma who made the declaration in an interview with The Sun said he doesn’t care about restructuring, and that human beings would always face problems in co-existing. “I don’t care about...
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Rapper Ruggedman says he will deal with recently sacked On Air Personality Freeze for comments he made concerning his new music single with 9ice. Speaking in an interview with The Sun newspaper, Ruggedman said “Freeze is my friend, I don’t take whatever he said or wrote to heart. I’ll catch him and deal with him… make him no worry....
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Special forces of the Nigerian Army on Friday killed five Niger Delta militants during a “precursor operation”. This is contained in a statement issued by the Army spokesperson Colonel Sani Usman. The statement reads, “The 133 Special Forces Battalion of Nigerian Army troops have carried out a precursor operation to Exercise CROCODILE SMILE aimed at...
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The Nigerian market should expect a new entrant into the rice market as the Dangote Group has commenced the harvest of its first tranche. Sources within the organization say that with the entrance of their project the price of rice would crash from its current price of N20,000 per bag. “We are really excited about the...
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The Central Bank of Nigeria will on Wednesday sell Treasury Bills worth N212.85 billion. The sale is part of the Federal Government’s plan to raise money to fund the 2016 budget. On Friday the apex bank also mopped up the sum of N71.6 billion through the Open Market Operation (OMO). According to the CBN, the...
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N51.28 billion – the amount Nigeria lost to pipeline vandalism in 2015. 9 – the number of banks barred from the interbank forex market by the CBN, for not remitting $2.334 billion of the NNPC’s dollar deposits into the Treasury Single Account 241 – the number of Nigerians deported from Libya 30,000 – the number...
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Following speculations that Cool FM OAP Ifedayo Olarinde aka Daddy Freeze may have been sacked by his employers, YNaija can confirm that this is indeed true, but the sack is in no way related to his long running feud with comedian, Basketmouth. Freeze had reacted to reports suggesting that he was sacked as Head, On-air Personalities at...
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Innovation in technology seem to be on the rise the world over as new ideas are being developed daily to improve human lives. A thirteen-year-old Nigerian boy, Ukoma Michael has joined the tech innovators with his battery operated fans. The fans, Blue Wind developed by the Imo state indigene are nicely packed and come in different...
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has thrown its support behind the declaration by the Niger Delta Avengers’ plan to break away from the country on October 1. The group said it is backing the decision of the Avengers because they share the same ideals. It however stated, that it had no link with the Movement...
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Few hours ago, news hit the airwaves that controversial OAP Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Freeze, has been fired from his job at Cool FM. The sack was said to have come as a result of an Instagram post he put up on Friday showing him cuddled up with comedian, Basketmouth’s wife, Elsie – who he...
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by Tolu Omoyeni A guy named Tolu went to Ghana, and has been giving us this blow-by-blow account of his visit. There is no way to explain how hilarious this is, so you just have to read it below. Enjoy! https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767485703945158656 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767489202523082752 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767495184833798144 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767597554766909440 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767598040689573888 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767598682388717568 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767633713320583168 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767676878375321600 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767697175103102977 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767710914061762561 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767712076919865344 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767795324500910080 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767795597768175616 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767795950525964288 https://twitter.com/ToluBablo/status/767797001920454656...
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Coach of Nigeria’s bronze medal winning under-23 team at Rio 2016, Samson Siasia has lamented the poor treatment meted out to him and members of the team. Speaking to The Vanguard he said “I am done with Nigeria for now.” “You can’t keep going to a place where they don’t appreciate you. It’s not worth it. “Sometimes...
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by Tolu Omoyeni In the second week of August, the 2016 Global Liveability Index report was released by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Lagos still holds a spot at the bottom of the list. According to the ranking, Lagos is the 3rd worst city to live in the world, after Tripoli and Damascus. It is...
Read MoreAkinwunmi Ambode,
boko haram,
Economist Intelligence Unit,
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EIU,
Global Liveability Index,
KAI,
lagos,
Lastma,
nigeria,
Sanusi Lamido
Does Folorunsho Alakija have something she is selling (other than fuel for oyinbo people to drink) these days? She is at every other event. Giving an interview to every other newspaper. Tormenting young women with tales of her legendary love for her husband – that includes a foot rub every morning and, and … she...
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22 ex-militants, beneficiaries of the foreign education programme of the Presidential Amnesty Office have graduated as Aircraft Maintenance Engineers and had returned to the country. The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and the Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, disclosed this in Abuja on Friday in an interview with the News Agency...
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 51-year-old woman in possession of 180 grams of heroin at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos. According to the NDLEA four parcels of brownish powdery substance, which tested positive for heroin was found inside the luggage of the suspect, identified as Akinyemi Monsurat Olajumoke. A statement...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says the sum of N1,956,007,975.81 has accrued to the federal government as interest from funds seized by a former Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun, and others. The Nation reports that an EFCC document also showed that properties seized from the founder of the defunct Intercontinental Bank, Erastus Akingbola, former Edo...
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Child trafficking is a form of human trafficking which involves the illegal movement of children, typically for the purposes of forced labour or sexual exploitation. The International Labour office states that this evil directly affects an estimated 1.2 million children at any given time. Unfortunately, child trafficking is a common feature in Nigeria. According to the...
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