by Isi Esene The Lagos and Ogun State Chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) have given their respective state governments September 24 this year to pay the 27.5 Teachers Salary Scale or face an indefinite strike action. The Lagos NUT chairman, Comrade Samson Idowu, disclosed this at Alausa recently at the launch of...
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by Isi Esene The absence of a Nigerian national carrier is receiving attention from the Senate with its committee on aviation recommending Arik Air as a possible airline to assume that status. Hope Uzodinma, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation disclosed this recommendation while presenting the report of the committee’s findings regarding the...
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byDemola Rewaju Confession: I hate ‘English’ Nollywood movies. The diction is entirely selected and used only to insult anyone who has a half-decent command of the language. Pronunciations in Nollywood are usually forced, with stressed and unstressed syllables jumbled up. If the director is good and corrects the thespian often, the actor becomes conscious and...
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by Nomalanga Mhlauli-Moses What I’m more concerned about is a young woman who grows up in a home without a father and then adopts the false belief that being without a father is “better” than having one or that there is something wrong with “all men”. This past week, I was facilitating a discussion as...
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by Isi Esene Members of the House of Representatives resumed from their two-month recess on Wednesday agitating for a N7m increase in their quarterly allowances. The members are currently enjoying N27m per quarter as allowances but want it increased to N35m. There are unconfirmed reports that some of the lawmakers raised questions of impropriety against...
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by Reuben Daba Nigeria’s most popular blogger, Linda Ikeji, has made a good number of media appearances these days, where she is the news, rather than the news bearer. From Forbes, to Y! Magazine, and now Ndani TV, highly successful blogger is being feted like a godmother, which in a way, she is. In this...
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I drive a hard bargain, not just for budget’s sake but also because I feel it is my obligation towards other oyinbos to do so. If we do not get our acts together and start haggling, we will continue to get ripped off categorically, and deservedly so. Admittedly, I was getting audacious. After watching Sola’s...
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Brooding endlessly about Nigeria would only make us bitter and a bitter you WILL NOT improve Nigeria, a better you WOULD. It is a country where N300million buys a table at a gala event; a country where the citizens have to actively engage in fundraising to save lives; it is the country in which the...
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by Stanley Azuakola Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Nigeria and Africa, but in the past, part of the criticism against him was that he made so much money and gave so little back to society. They compared him with some of the world’s great models in philanthropy like America’s Bill Gates and Warren...
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Please, keep this as “top secret” as I am still in service and intend to retire after I conclude this deal with you. Please get back to me if you are interested and capable to handle this project while I shall intimate you on what to do when I hear your confirmation and acceptance… Dear...
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by Stanley Azuakola In case you missed it, President Jonathan’s Strategy and PR team led by the inimitable Oronto Douglas, this week released a new 155-page book titled Sure and Steady Transformation: The Progress Report. It was a brilliant piece of agitprop (now that’s a fine word for you.) The brilliance of the work was not...
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by Stanley Azuakola If there’s anything to note about Rivers State Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, it is that the man hardly ever backs down, once his heart is set on a course. Ever since he appointed Professor Barineme Fakae as the Vice Chancellor of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), it has...
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by Stanley Azuakola The National Assembly has resumed work after going on recess for two months. Apparently, President Goodluck Jonathan has been waiting expectantly for their return, judging from the way he bombarded them with requests on Wednesday. First, he forwarded the Mid-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) 2013-2015 to them. The framework revealed that the administration plans to...
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by Stanley Azuakola The speaker of Nigeria’s Federal House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, is not known to be active on any social media platform, yet the man has advocated for the use of social media in the day-to-day running of government affairs. According to him, there was no doubting the unlimited opportunity which the social media platform offers...
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by Stanley Azuakola Nigeria’s informationminister, Labaran Maku, is set to embark on a ‘National Good Governance’ tour. The tour, according to him, is to allow Nigerians participate in the development of the nation. He said this, while speaking at the Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ) People’s Forum. Maku explained that the tour is meant to...
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by Isi Esene Only senior management staff and medical doctors were seen working on Wednesday in Federal Government-owned health institutions as health workers under the aegis of the Joint Heath Sector Unions (JOHESU) began a nationwide indefinite strike. The striking workers vow not to return to work until their grievances are resolved. The Federal Government...
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Federal Government,
Felix Olukayode Faniran,
Health,
Ibe Stephen Nwokenta,
Igbobi Orthopaedic Hospital,
JOHESU,
Labour,
Lagos University Teaching Hospital,
Luth,
strike
Trial resumes Wednesday for a chef who told investigators he accidentally killed his wife and then cooked her body for four days in boiling water to get rid of the evidence. David Viens has pleaded not guilty to murdering his 39-year-old wife, Dawn, in late 2009. Her body has never been found. Jurors on Tuesday...
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You hate hearing about stories like this one, because it reminds you that everyone can be a victim, even the insane person who would do something like this. But a woman is on trial for cutting out the fetus of a woman in an effort to steal her unborn baby. We don’t know what the...
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Until now, it’s been hard, almost impossible, to get to the bottom of who is behind the anti-Islam film that reportedly sparked the attack on American embassies in Egypt and Lebanon. But now that the layers are being peeled away, we’re learning that the webbing is curious, and actually involves the U.S. government. Let’s discuss...
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Apple—fresh off of its launch of the iPhone 5—and Google continue to grow their dominance in the mobile marketplace, having positioned themselves to capture as much as 98 percent of mobile device sales by the end of 2012. That bold prediction comes from financial research firm Global Equities Research, just a day after Apple’s flashy...
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A little over four months ago, a Florida judge sentenced 31-year-old Marissa Alexander to 20 years in prison for three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Alexander fired a gun into the air in an attempt to scare her violent husband, who’d gone into a rage after reading text message exchanges between Alexander and her...
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by Stanley Azuakola Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leader, Bola Tinubu, used to be member of the Senate. Presently, his wife, Remi Rinubu is a senator representing Lagos State. Yet, Tinubu has made a call for that body to be scrapped, so that Nigeria would be left with a single house in the legislative arm. Tinubu made this...
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by Isi Esene Two policemen were reportedly killed on Wednesday morning in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The anti-riot policemen were said to have been riding on a motor-bike about 7am when armed men suspected to be robbers opened fire on them. Eyewitnesses say the two policemen died instantly. Traders and passersby...
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by Isi Esene The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and AllWorld Network Inc. on Tuesday organised a press conference to intimate the public on its collaborative effort at showcasing and ranking the most innovative and dynamic fast-growth private companies in Nigeria. The event which took place in Ikoyi, Lagos, featured Ebi Brisibe, research manager, Tony Elumelu...
Read MoreAllWorld Inc.,
Deirdre Coyle,
Ebi Brisibe,
FATE Foundation,
HH Capital,
India,
Jobberman,
Lagos Business School,
LEAP Africa,
Nigeria50,
Pakistan,
Sam Nwanze,
saudi arabia,
Tony O. Elumelu,
Turkey,
UBA
President Goodluck Jonathan has agreed to reverse his administration’s plan to introduce the 5000 naira note. The currency restructuring, announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, would have seen the unveiling of the N5000 note as the highest naira denomination while lower currencies were to be converted to coins. Weeks of public outrage criticizing the...
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42-year-old John Ajene, who resides in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, Tuesday had his penis chopped off by his infuriated wife, Mrs. Roseline Ajene for his alleged infidelity. Vanguard Newspaper gathered from an eyewitness that the aggrieved woman carried out the dastardly act while her husband was deep asleep. According to the eyewitness,...
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The Family Court in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, has sent Mr. Temitope Alo who is suspected to have raped eight children at Ayobo area of the state to Kirikiri Prison. Alo was arraigned at Family Court, Court 6, Magistrate’s Court, Ikeja on Tuesday for allegedly raping eight children. The children had testified in court that...
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Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates remains the nation’s richest man by far, as the tech and philanthropy giant took the top spot on the Forbes 400 list for the 19th year running, with a net worth of $66 billion. Investor Warren Buffett, the head of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., again took second with $46 billion, while...
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The report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said more than half of the pneumonia and diarrhea deaths, which together account for almost 30 percent of under-five deaths worldwide occurred in just four countries: Congo, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. Although, the UN revealed that, the number of children under the age of five who...
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By Jennifer Ehidiamen In spite of the current lack and challenges on African soil, there are many remarkable innovations on the record. Another example is the recent launch of a Tablet device, Vantium v1. Africans are often regarded as big consumers and small producers, even though the continent is rich with natural and human resources....
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