In a report on Today programme, Al Bangura who played in the Premier League for Watford from 2009 – 2015, spoke to BBC’s Sima Kotecha on how at 14, his parents told him to become the leader of the secret society his late father had headed in Sierra Leone. The 27-year-old who is now working […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the meeting of the governors of the 36 states of the federation, where they said they would no longer be able to pay the N18,000 national minimum wage due to dwindling oil revenue, workers have raised objection, saying they are ready to shut down the country should the governors maintain their stand. The the […]
Continue ReadingThe 36 state governors at a meeting yesterday, at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja under the umbrella of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, said that dwindling prices of oil has affected their states income thereby making it difficult to pay the N18,000 minimum wage that was signed into law in March 2011 […]
Continue ReadingFares have gone up on most routes in Anambra State following increase in the price of fuel from the normal N87 per litre to about N200 in most filling stations. Added to the ordeal of motorists in the state is the shady deal by officials of NNPC mega station in Awka which has resorted to […]
Continue ReadingLai Mohammed the newly appointed minister of Information yesterday met with various heads of parastatals in the Ministry of Information. At the meeting, Lai Mohammed blamed them over what he said was their lack of efficiency and effectiveness in their discharge of duties. He stated that the politicizing of issues by the government agencies in […]
Continue ReadingInformation coming from the office of the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has revealed that the present Administration will soon launch a campaign of National Re-orientation aimed at transforming the nation’s socio-political economic landscape. Alhaji Lai Mohammed made this public on Thursday (yesterday), when the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Malam […]
Continue ReadingSome people are monsters and don’t deserve to be parents. Undercover Houston police officers were looking through Craigslist ads when they found something shocking in the Casual Encounters section. An ad titled “Play with Daddy’s Little Girl,” created by 28-year-old Andrew Turley, offered up sex with his daughter in exchange for money. Officers contacted the man […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Army has released a statement explaining what transpired in Gudumbali, Borno state on Wednesday November 18th where 105 soldiers were said to have gone missing after a gun battle with Boko haram members. The statement which is signed by Tukur Ismail Gusau, the Media Coordinator Operation Lafiya Dole, states that the claim is […]
Continue ReadingPress statement from the presidency below… President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja reaffirmed his Administration’s commitment to the Federal Government’s privatisation and commercialisation policy. Speaking at an audience with Peugeot’s Executive Vice President for Africa and the Middle-East, Mr. Jean-Christophe Quemard, President Buhari stressed, however, that greater consideration will now be given to the technical […]
Continue ReadingLucara, a Canadian company, has revealed that the world’s second-largest gem-quality diamond has just been discovered in Botswana.Lucara’s Chief Executive Officer, William Lamb, in a statement, mentioned that the 1,111-carat diamond is second in size only to the 3,106-carat one excavated at Cullinan mine in South Africa in 1905, which was cut into British crown […]
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