CNPP backs scrapping of House of Reps, urges Okorocha to sponsor its bill

Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has thrown its weight behind a suggestion by former governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha that Nigeria should adopt a reduced Parliamentary representation from each state of the federation as part of efforts to decrease government’s running costs. Reacting to the proposed reduction of the numbers of legislative […]

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Italy reduces number of lawmakers from 945 to 600 to cut wasteful spending

Italy’s parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved slashing the number of lawmakers, a move the left-leaning government hopes will help keep the far-right from power. Reducing the number of MPs and senators in Italy by 345 was a flagship manifesto promise of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, which rules in coalition with the country’s centre-left, and promised voters it would […]

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UNILAG suspends second lecturer over #SexForGrades documentary

University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Nigeria has suspended another lecturer, Dr Samuel Oladipo, of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, after he was also indicted in a sexual harassment documentary produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). This is just as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; wife of the […]

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Twitter users respond to Yvonne Nelson over her tweet on ‘sex for grade’ scandal, dig up her old bikini Photos

Yvonne Nelson posted a tweet in reaction to the sex for grade scandal and this has earned her brutal criticisms from Twitter users who think she’s being a hypocrite. The Ghanaian actress, while reacting to the scandal, seemed to be laying the blame on women for not covering their bodies properly. She wrote: “Sex for […]

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Soldiers’ killing of 3 IRT policemen in Taraba, Nigerian military releases report of inquiry

The Nigerian Army, on Tuesday, released the report of an inquiry into the killing of policemen and civilian by soldiers at a check point in Taraba state in August. The report was released to the newsmen by Col Onyema Nwachukwu, Nigerian Army’s Director of Defence Information. Soldiers of the 93 Battalion had shot dead 3 […]

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President Buhari’s speech at presentation of 2020 budget at National Assembly (Full text)

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, laid the 2020 appropriation bill before a joint session of Nigeria’s National Assembly. The President presented N10.7trillion for the year 2020 budget estimates. Buhari, who arrived the National Assembly chambers at about 2 p.m., presented the budget to lawmakers under atmosphere free of booing, rancour or disruption as it […]

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Nigerian couple in the UK sentenced for selling no-preservatives, toxic skin-whitening products online

A Nigerian couple in the UK has been sentenced for selling illegal skin-whitening products online. Jonathan and Holiness Ikpere have avoided jail after admitting selling the toxic products. They are thought to have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds from selling banned bleaching concoctions from their home in Towpath Mead, Southsea. They imported large quantities of cosmetics from […]

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Some female teachers also demand ‘sex for grades’ in Ghana -Journalist, Gifty Oheneyere says

Ghanaian broadcast journalist, Gifty Anti Oheneyere, has said that some female teachers and lecturers are also in the habit of demanding for sex in return for good grades from their male students. Gifty stated this while reacting to the #SexforGrades investigative documentary released by BBC yesterday October 7th. The documentary exposed how lecturers in the […]

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Foursquare Church suspends UNILAG lecturer exposed in BBC ‘sex for mark’ documentary

Following a viral BBC video documentary, the Foursquare Gospel Church has asked one of its ministers who is also a senior lecturer at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu, to step down from all ministerial assignments. This was released in a statement on Monday by the National Secretary of the church, Ikechukwu Ugbaja, […]

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Time To Drag Buhari, El-Rufai and Others To Kigali, By Festus Adedayo

Rwanda does not hide the fact that she is a coquette. From the moment you land at the Rwanda International Airport, Kigali, the irresistible mermaid which Rwanda lets loose on you, begins to openly seduce you, making salacious passes and daring you to resist her bewitching beauty. She does not pretend that she is seeking […]

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As Buhari presents 2020 budget, NASS area on lockdown

Security has been beefed up in and around the National Assembly complex ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to present the 2020 budget proposal. Mr Buhari is to present the proposal before a joint session of the Assembly on Tuesday at 2 p.m. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that combined teams of security agencies […]

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The Spiritual Solution to Boko Haram, By Reuben Abati

No one is in any doubt that terrorism poses one of the gravest threats to humanity in today’s world. Here in Nigeria, within a decade and a little, unconscionable acts of violence by persons pursuing heinous ideological, religious, and political objectives has resulted in wanton destruction of lives and property, making Nigeria one of the […]

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Ghanaian lecturer weeps in class following BBC’s ‘sex for grades’ documentary (Video)

Ghanaian lecturer, Professor Ransford Gyampo, exposed in the BBC’s ‘sex for grades’ documentary, was filmed reportedly crying in class in front of his students after the video aired. Prof. Gyampo, a lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, was caught on camera propositioning marriage to an undercover reporter in the BBC […]

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Naked woman climbs the top of a cathedral statue, straddles on it for about 4 hours (Photo)

A naked woman climbed on a statue on a cathedral roof and stayed there in full glare of the public for four hours before authorities removed her. The unnamed woman was seen standing, stretching, and straddling a statue on the roof of the St Patrick’s Cathedral St Ignatius Academy building in Fort Worth, Texas on […]

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UNILAG Lecturer/Pastor, Ghanaian lecturer exposed in a new BBC #SexForGrades Documentary (Video 18+)

A new documentary by BBC Africa Eye targeted at lecturers in some West African universities harassing their students for sex in exchange for grades/marks has exposed some randy lecturers in Nigerians and Ghana. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University […]

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Thrice, I have repaid N1.1m loan ‘in kind’ -Woman tells court

A Lagos businesswoman, Ejioma, on Monday, told an Ojo Magistrates’ Court how she paid back ‘in kind’ part of N1.1m loan she allegedly took from a businessman. The defendant, a trader who sells bags of rice, pleaded not guilty to two counts of obtaining money by false pretence and stealing. The defendant, who spoke in […]

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