BY AYO OLOWO A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Perekeme Kpodo has stated that former president, Goodluck Jonathan, his wife and their associates should be investigated and prosecuted for looting Nigeria’s resources. Chief Kpodo, made the call at a news conference in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital on Wednesday, July 22, 2015. […]
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BY AYO OLOWO Liverpool have completed the £32.5 million signing of Christian Benteke from Aston Villa. KOKOMANSION MEDIA can emphatically say that the Belgium international striker has signed a five-year contract with the club, which will see Liverpool pay £16 million up front with the remainder of the fee payable over the course of his […]
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30-year-old Imonitie Ilen-Otuma, a graduate of the University of Lagos has been arrested by the police for allegedly raping a 27-year-old woman in the Lekki area of Lagos. PUNCH Metro learnt that Imonitie, who studied Estate Management, had earlier been arrested in May for raping a colleague, and had been freed when the victim’s family agreed […]
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BY AYO OLOWO 21-year old John Stones. Everton boss Roberto Martinez had accused Chelsea of trying to unsettle stones by making their £20 million bid for the young central defender public. “Our strategy for the Premier League is going to change next year,” Mourinho told reporters in New York on the club’s preseason tour. […]
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The first people to reach the Americas came from Siberia, now in Russia, in a single group around 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, says a new study. According to BusinessStandard.com, After reaching Alaska, they apparently hung out in the north – perhaps for thousands of years – before spreading […]
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Today the 22nd day of July, 2015, is the day set for the official launch of Young Business Leaders of Nigeria (YBLN). It is a network of ‘young business leaders’ established to evolve creative methods of providing 1.2 million jobs in Nigeria; to reduce the rate of unemployment by 3% by December 2016 and 25% […]
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BY OMOVUDU BIVBERE The Independent National Electoral Commission acting chairperson, Mrs. Amina Zakari stated on Tuesday any staff of the commission indicted by elections petitions tribunals for wrong practices in the conduct of the 2015 general elections would be punished in accordance with the law. Speaking at the public presentation of the final report on […]
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BY AYO OLOWO Residents of Yobe State, one of the troubled states in the North-East of Nigeria have have heaped praises on the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai, for his three-day working visit to the state. They expressed gratitude for the improvement in relationship between the civil society and the Military, which […]
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Julia Payne of Reuters reports that Nigeria’s presidency said on Tuesday the World Bank had pledged to spend up to $2.1 billion to rebuild the northeast of the country that has been devastated by Boko Haram militants. President Muhammadu Buhari met with representatives of the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the […]
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BY AYO OLOWO According to Punchng; Lafarge Africa Plc says its newly constructed 220-Mega Watts power plant at Ewekoro, Ogun State, will commence operation in October. The company, in a statement, said the project worth $400m (N78.8bn) was executed in partnership with the International Finance Corporation and Wartsila. It added that the IFC would provide […]
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