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Police Inspector has been detained for allegedly cutting off his pregnant wife’s hand over N3000 in the Dong area of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. Reports say the man committed the act after his wife allegedly took N3,000 out of his savings. It was gathered that the Inspector left the money at […]
Continue ReadingIf you think some courses are not relevant in Nigeria, I won’t say you’re wrong. Some even argue these courses are what they are, even before the advent of the internet. They’re not just feasible. The propagation of digitisation and technological advancement has made some fields more demanding. Yes, daily discoveries tend to relinquish the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s naira has demonstrated signs of strengthening against the United States dollar, appreciating by N125 to reach N1,275/$1 over the weekend. The new rate represents a 9.8 per cent increase when compared to N1,400 to a dollar it traded at the close of trading activity on Friday. This came as the Senate through its Committee […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has sealed an Abuja-based Chinese supermarket located within the China General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) in Abuja, Nigeria, following allegations of discriminatory practices against Nigerians. Officials of FCCPC shut the supermarket when they stormed the premises on Monday. The commission’s officials sealed up the place after interrogating […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has slammed suspended Humanitarian Minister, Betta Edu, her predecessor, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, and the Coordinator of the National Social Insurance Programmes Agency, Halima Shehu, while revealing that a combined total of N32.7bn and $445,000 has been recovered so far from the ministry. In a statement signed on Sunday by the […]
Continue ReadingTimes Higher Education (THE) has released the 2024 edition of its Nigerian universities ranking, in which this year, more than 35 Nigerian universities were rated. Covenant University, Ota, was ranked above the University of Ibadan and the Federal University of Technology, Akure, as the best university in Nigeria for the second time, according to Times […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Delta State Police Command, Nigeria, has arrested one Nicholas Charles for the murder of his wife’s friend, Ngozi Sharon William, in Asaba, the state capital. The State Commissioner of Police, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi, who disclosed this to newsmen in Asaba, on Thursday, April 11, 2024, said the deceased, a mother of three, […]
Continue ReadingOnce upon a time, the Nigerian Naira was a king over the United States Dollars. This was the case in 1975, when a brand new Peugeot 504 car would be purchased from the showroom with only N1,500, an amount that cannot buy a loaf of bread this year 2024. A loaf of bread is sold […]
Continue ReadingDeputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) serving with the Force Criminal and Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon, Lagos State Nigeria, Gbolahan Oyedemi, on Monday, reportedly committed suicide in his private house in his hometown, Ogbomoso, Oyo State. Oyedemi was the Aide de Camp (ADC) to the late former Governor of the state, Adebayo Alao-Akala, during his 11-month […]
Continue ReadingUnknown assailants have killed Dr. Kamar Abdulkadir, a lecturer in the Department of Physical Health Education, University of Maiduguri, Borno State. It was gathered that the assailants sneaked into his office on Sunday, March 31, 2024, and attacked him with a knife and hammer. A source told security expert, Zagazola Makama that the victim was […]
Continue ReadingCount it all joy, dear readers, if I am summoned by Nigerian legislators after the publication of this article, for it is most likely I will be invited only once, tongue-lashed, and asked to remove my shoes and frog-jump back to my house. For heads of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), they cannot be that […]
Continue ReadingOn October 29, 1974, the Nigerian Ministry of Defence, through the Ministry of External Affairs, wrote to Nigerian missions and embassies abroad that it wanted to buy tonnes of cement to build barracks for its post-civil war armed forces of 200,000 officers and men. The Nigerian Army had just about 8,000 personnel before the war. […]
Continue ReadingOne of the most beautiful and inspiring news to come out of Nigeria in recent times is the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership bestowed on our own Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, for his exceptional and patriotic service to his beloved country Nigeria, and indeed Africa. It then becomes a double […]
Continue Reading“What is the State?” Louis Blanc, politician and historian in 19th century France, asks himself. He answers: “The State, under democratic rule, is the power of all the people, served by their elect; it is the reign of liberty. “The State, under monarchical rule, is the power of one man, the tyranny of a single […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, disclosed to the media that Nigeria is looking to send in its application to join an intergovernmental organization, the BRICS group. Very recently Tuggar restated that the country has not abandoned its objective to be a part of the BRICS group in the next two years. “We intend […]
Continue ReadingBank of Ghana (BG) has suspended the Foreign Exchange Trading Licences of two Nigerian-owned banks, Guaranty Trust Bank Ghana Limited and FBNBank Ghana Limited. The suspension, which will take effect from March 18, 2024, for one month, was announced in a statement, on Monday, by the Ghanaian apex bank. That measure comes in response to […]
Continue ReadingA syndicate which specialized in printing fake Nigerian and Cameroonian currencies has been smashed by the Zone 2 Command, with the recovery of fake N9 million and 300 million CFA notes in Lagos. According to Vanguard, four suspected members of the syndicate are a couple Oludare Olamilekan, 50. his wife Oluwayemisi, 46; Ilelabayo Johnson, 62, […]
Continue ReadingNo fewer than 40 million telephone lines were barred by telecommunication operators over the weekend following the expiration of the February 28, 2024 deadline issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) mandating telecom consumers to link their Subscriber Identity Modules to their National Identity Numbers (NIN). This represents a 28 million increase from the 12 […]
Continue ReadingI like to proceed by taking a largely critical look at Nigeria’s development crisis and attempt to proffer some solutions to our more obvious challenges. I anchor this on what I refer to as the five monsters that Nigerians must tame if we must move out of extant development crisis Nigeria officially became a sovereign […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has embarked on a protest against hardship in the country. NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had on February 8, issued a 14-day nationwide strike notice to the Federal Government over the failure to implement the agreements reached on October 2, following the removal of fuel subsidy. There were stories […]
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