BY AYO OLOWO Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman Daar Communications and a PDP Chieftain has said the PDP finding itself in the position of an opposition party was caused by some of the party members. He further stated that the APC lack democratic credentials. Dokpesi gave this address in Benin City, Edo State yesterday at the […]
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Nollywood, Nigeria’s film industry, is now priced at $5 billion and makes more films than Hollywood in the U.S, but less than the largest film industry, India’s Bollywood, according to Al Jazeera. Nigeria’s film industry has only 14 cinemas available to a country that is home to more than 170 million people. Each week, Nollywood […]
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Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole who has been in the news in recent times over his allegations on the misappropriation of funds in the last administration, says he will not be silent when people are abusing power and stealing government funds. Oshiomole, who was a guest at a seminar organized by the Post-Mortem sub-committee of […]
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Chairman of Heirs Holdings and founder of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program, Mr Tony Elumelu met president Obama in Kenya last week after he was invited by the White House to speak at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi.
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BY AYO OLOWO The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC says the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have commenced petroleum production after some in-house engineers conducted a nine-month rehabilitation on both facilities. The oil corporation announced this in a statement released by its General Manager, Public Affairs Division, Mr Ohi Alegbe yesterday. The statement in part […]
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BY AYO OLOWO Designed for both iOS andAndroid, the Google Translate app is adding 20 new languages. You’ll be able to translate to and from English with Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. For Hindi and Thai, you’ll be able to do […]
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The Nations The reported death of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, took another dimension on Wednesday with the claim by the town’s traditional council that the monarch is alive. The foremost traditional ruler was said to have died in a United Kingdom hospital Tuesday night. The Ooni died of an undisclosed ailment at […]
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BY AYO OLOWO Member representing Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo federal constituency at the House of Representatives, Hon. Linus Okorie has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take note of the natural law of ‘what goes around comes around,’ further stating that if Buhari decides to be unfair to his predecessor, he should expect similar treatment when he leaves office. […]
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Three PDP governors will accompany the president of Nigeria, Muhamadu Buhari to Cameroon on a two-day visit to build a more effective regional coalition against Boko Haram. The governors are Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom, Mr Darius Ishaku of Taraba and Ben Ayade of Cross River State. They will be joined by three of their […]
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….Says she’s reaping what she sewed ….Berates PDP Former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, deserves the humiliation she suffered last week when she was denied access to the Protocol Lounge of the Port Harcourt International Airport, the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said. The party in a statement issued Tuesday in Port […]
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