The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with Sokoto government, is set to train 830 female teachers. The scheme, which is to provide enough role models for female students especially in rural communities in different parts of the state, is being executed under UNICEF’s Girls Education Project (GEP3). In a statement released by the...
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Last week, Africa Fashion International (AFI) hosted the annual fashion week in Sandton, Johannesburg. All fashionist…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the group agitating for secession from Nigeria, has urged ‘Biafrans’ to stop eating Fulani cows in order to avoid the infiltration and attacks of their villages by Fulani herdsmen. IPOB advised people of the South East region to breed their own local cows, which are in abundance, in Abakaliki,...
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A member of the Federal House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, who represents Kiru/Bebeji Federal constituency of Kano State, has stated that the 2016 budget is ready and will be passed on Wednesday. Jibrin, who serves as the Chairman House Committee on Finance, in a series of tweets, noted that the 2016 budget has been the...
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Saraki assures Nigerians that PIB would be ready next week. Leadership Court grants bail of N3 million to Yinusa – Ese Oruru’s abductor. Punch Ehigie Uzamere resigns from PDP. Vanguard PFN warns that religious bill will set Kaduna on fire. Leadership Buhari’s statement on Chibok girls still stands- Presidency. Punch Demolish all shrines and tombs...
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Today, is World Water Day, an international observance that shines the spotlight on the importance of freshwater and helps people to learn about water issues, and the role they can play to promote sustainability of fresh water resources. Water is essential for nearly all aspects of society and the economy, in particular food production and...
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There are many ways you can discover that it is dangerous to jump off a ten-story building: You can read about the law of gravity in a book. You can learn from the sad experience of someone who tried it. You can listen to the wise counsel of a physician about the dangers of such...
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God Almighty in whose all Almighty hands are the destinies of nations and individuals please protect this president and his cabinet members. A time comes in the life of any country when good men take the centre stage to reorder the course of events. A time comes in the life of any nation when men...
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Here is the Entertainment Roundup for today Female fans cry for Psquare There is a reason why they are called Africa’s most famous and biggest music group. If you have ever been to a Psquare concert outside the shores of Nigeria, you’d be marvelled at the way fans -especially the female- adore them. While many...
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The March 26 election conducted in Rivers state, was for most, a battle of supremacy between Rt Hon Rotimi Amaechi and the current governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike. For others, it was a chance for the present minister of transportation to ice the cake of victory he gained over the last president and his...
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A 20-year-old female, Joan Egemba, was on Thursday, March 3, stabbed and strangled to death in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun state. According to Punch Newspapers, Joan, who was a candidate for the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), had left her home in the Odo Eran, Sabgo-Ota area, for Awa Ijebu -where she was supposed to...
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Over $200billion stashed in the in the United Arab Emirates by some former governors, ex-ministers and other public officers would soon be recovered by the Nigerian federal government. The Nation reports that those under the radar -for stashing funds and acquiring properties in the UAE- are seven former governors, six former ministers, an ex-presidential aide...
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Anambra governor, Willie Obiano has suffered a political setback. Over five hundred aggrieved members of his party- All Progressives Grand Alliance, and Nigeria’s main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, have cross-carpeted to Equity Forum, a political pressure group. Equity Forum was formed by a former PDP Chairman and member, House of Representatives Prince Tony Nwoye. The...
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The vultures are circling yet I am not disturbed because they cannot eat my flesh. The wolves are howling yet I shall not retreat because they cannot crush my bones. The bullies are threatening yet I shall not bow because they cannot break my spirit or conquer my soul. The demons are baying yet I...
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The immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), and other senior officers arrested over the $2.1bn arms deal scam, have been released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Amosu, as well as a former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal J.B. Adigun and...
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The Peoples Democratic Party may soon be thrown into another crisis, owing to the acting National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff’s failure to do what’s expected of him. Sheriff is said to have failed to heed the directive given to him by the party’s National Executive Committee -to set up a committee that would determine...
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The Nigerian Army has been dragged before the International Criminal Court of justice, by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria -Nigerian Shiites- over allegation of genocide. Over 300 Shiite Muslims were reported to have been killed by Nigerian troops between December 12 and 13, when the army destroyed the headquarters of the sect and arrested the...
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After the accusations and counter-accusations, the apparent betrayal and allegation of betrayal, the picking of sides by the public spectators, the airing of dirty laundry before the world, Psquare -Jude, Peter and Paul Okoye- are finally on the same page. Africa’s most successful music group, Psquare appear to have worked out their differences and have...
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Nyesom Wike, Rivers state governor has vowed to release video evidence of atrocities allegedly committed by the Nigerian Army during the legislative rerun election of last weekend. While stating that there is a ploy to declare a state of emergency in Rivers, Wike said the All Progressives Congress was hellbent on creating the propaganda of...
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Aroused and angry, I thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war; But soon my fingers fail’d me, my face droop’d, and I resign’d myself, To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead. Walt Whitman (1819–1892), Leaves of Grass. The Nigerian society is ruled by a strict definition of...
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The National Youth Service Corps has revealed that Okonta Samuel, a youth corp member who was killed during the re-run elections in Rivers State, was an orphan. Samuel, who served at GCSS Ukpeliede, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Ahoada West Local Government Area, on Saturday. While announcing the death of Samuel in a...
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The Code of Conduct Tribunal has said the charges against former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Peter Orubebe, have not been dropped. The Tribunal stated on Monday, that Orubebe’s false assets declaration case was simply substituted with a newly filed charge by the prosecution. Ibraheem Al-hassan, Head, Press & Public Relations at the CCT,...
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I know we are in March, but Love is in the air. Somehow, this month, I have found myself constantly talking about relationships- and believe it or not- it hasn’t been about break-ups, cheating men or anything negative. Rather, my conversations have been about the required steps to cultivate and nurture a loving relationship. Every...
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Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to stop deploying youth corpers for electoral services. While condemning the spate of violence in last weekend’s Rivers rerun election, Okupe called on the stakeholders in the polls to take responsibility for the lives lost. “The...
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Queens College, Lagos, is currently embroiled in a sexual molestation scandal. The mother of a student of the school had on Friday, accused a teacher- Olaseni Oshifala, of sexually molesting her daughter, a JSS 2 student of the girls-only school. In a letter which she wrote to some online blogs, she recounted her daughter’s experience...
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Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose has dared President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Ekiti and Rivers state. Fayose uttered the boastful remarks on Monday, after the opening of the National Economic Council (NEC) retreat on the economy at the presidential villa, Abuja. “They have been insinuating that (state of emergency)...
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From allegations of over speeding, to driving without a license and travelling without seatbelts on, the Federal Road Safety Corps has fallen short in addressing the real circumstances surrounding the death of Junior Labour Minister, James Ocholi. In not addressing the shoddy state of the road and naming it as the primary cause of the...
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The Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jet aircraft on Friday, ‘successfully attacked’ suspected Boko Haram logistics Base at Allagarno, in Yobe. According to Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, Director of Public Relations & Information, the target was carefully selected after Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) was carried out by an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV). “The mission,...
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Nigerian entertainer, Adeyemi Olumuyiwa Osinuga, popularly known as ‘Nomoreloss’ has passed on after a brief illness. Nomoreloss, a singer, comedian and actor, reportedly died at an undisclosed hospital in Opebi, Ikeja. While there’s no clear details regarding the nature of his illness and the circumstances that led to his death, several entertainment industry personalities have...
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Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, the Senate Deputy Minority Leader has said Boko Haram terrorist sect is working towards the establishment of a new base in Taraba state after been dislodged from Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. While speaking in Abuja on Sunday, Bwacha raised an alarm over recent what he described as ‘silent killings by Boko...
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