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YouTube Lesson: Understanding the impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on Africans

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, YouTube Friday, August 19th, 2022

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Nigeria record’s largest number of Christian deaths in 2021, says rights group, InterSociety

Posted by admin Headlines, Religion Thursday, August 18th, 2022

Famous human rights organization, International Society for Civil Liberties and rule law, (InterSociety) has declared that Nigeria is the Most Christian Lives Hackers nation in the globe, saying a total of 5,191 persons were Hacked to death in 2021. It added that 6006 people were killed in fifteen months (Jan 2021-March 2022) and 45,644 died […]

Emirates suspends flights to Nigeria from September

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Thursday, August 18th, 2022

Emirates Airlines on Thursday announced the suspension of its flight operations in Nigeria from September 1, 2022. It said the suspension became necessary following its inability to repatriate its funds from Nigeria. International carriers operating in Nigeria have repeatedly complained about their inability to repatriate funds to their home countries. They have raised this concern […]

ASUU Strike: FG insists on No-Work-No-Pay for lecturers

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Thursday, August 18th, 2022

Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu on Thursday said the Federal Government would not pay salaries of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) who had been on strike over the past six months He insisted that government would strictly apply strictly the “no work, no pay policy” stressing that the striking lecturers would […]

2022 FIFA U20 World Cup: Falconets thrash Canada, qualify for quarter-finals against Netherlands

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, August 18th, 2022

Nigeria’s U20 girls, Falconets set a World Cup group stage perfect record for themselves after beating Canada 3-1 in Alajuela on Thursday morning to finish with a perfect nine points out of nine in Group C. Head Coach, Chris Danjuma Musa said before the encounter that his girls would seek to win even as a […]

YouTube video: Why Africa is Attractive to the West and China

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, August 18th, 2022

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eNaira to be USSD enabled from next week

Posted by admin Economy, Headlines, Naira (Currency) Thursday, August 18th, 2022

From next week, Nigerians will be able to open an eNaira wallet and conduct transactions by simply using a designated USSD code on any phone. To carry out these transactions, Nigerians will only have to dail *997 from their phones. Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele stated these at the Grand Finale of […]

Abia North: Item, Ozuitem, other communities affirm Kalu’s developmental strides, back his re-election bid

Posted by admin Abia, Election 2015, Elections 2023, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News Thursday, August 18th, 2022

From Kenneth Udeh, Umuahia Communities in Item, Abia North senatorial district, have attested to the developmental projects sited in their respective districts by their representative, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, in three years as a first time senator at the National Assembly. Kalu, in continuity of his ongoing midterm constituency report tour, had, on Tuesday, attend town hall […]

Ibrahim Babangida’s ex-spokesman, Duro Onabule is dead

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, August 18th, 2022

Ibrahim Babangida’s ex-spokesman, Duro Onabule is dead By Don Silas Chief Duro Onabule, a veteran journalist and a former spokesperson to former military head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, is dead. Onabule, according to a close associate, Eric Teniola, died on Tuesday at the age of 83. “Chief Duro Onabule died this evening,” a family source […]

Opinion: Credibility of Nigerian presidential candidates

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, August 18th, 2022

By Festus Adedayo In a Nigeria where the curriculum vitae of some presidential aspirant is as opaque as the sky, birth details shawled in translucent towel, real name a subject of needless controversy, birth and parenthood a curious pouch fallen from space on an island nobody wants to touch, schooling history smelling like a miasma […]