An estimated three million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) would participate in the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has said. The INEC Chairman , Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this in Abuja at a stakeholders’ meeting on the 2022 Revised Framework and Regulations for Voting by IDPs. He noted that the revised framework had taken into consideration several developments …
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The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has appointed British-Nigerian Member of Parliament, Kemi Badenoch as a member of her cabinet on Tuesday. Recall that Badenoch vied to be British PM as a member of the Conservative Party and made it to the top five in July. However, in a post on the verified Twitter page of the UK Prime …
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The Director General/CEO National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Mr Kashifu Abdullahi, on Tuesday, said despite numerous challenges bedeviling the country, Nigeria remains a major global supplier of tech talents. This is coming as a United States, U.S. based tech giant, Google, unveiled 60 Africa Startups grantees of its second cohort Black Founders Fund, BFF, initiative. Abdullahi who spoke at …
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Activist and lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Assembly and Controller General of Prisons before a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, for failing to provide monitoring devices, close circuit television, CCTV, and other instruments of restraint at the Kuje Prison, Abuja, which was attacked by insurgents in July, and freed over 600 inmates, …
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The new United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Liz Truss has delivered his first speech outside 10 Downing Street as unveiling her programme for the British. Following her meeting with the Queen of England, Elizabeth II in Balmoral earlier in the day, the Truss arrived at Downing Street on Tuesday evening and immediately delivered her first epoch speech. The PM’s convoy arrived …
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One Obiako Chukwuemeka pretending to be a medical doctor working with the United Nations as a humanitarian aid at the National Hospital, Abuja has been arrested and handed over to the police. The Vanguard gathered that the suspect, whose origin, and age are yet unknown, has since been detained pending his arraignment. The source said: “The National Hospital Abuja handed …
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A 45-year-old housewife died while her husband sustained injuries in a building collapse in Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa. Spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the state, CSC Adamu Shehu confirmed the incident in Dutse on Tuesday. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Shehu said the incident occurred on Sunday at about 11:30 …
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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, received Mr. Ehizogie Iyeomoan, an Edo indigene who emerged winner of the 2021 Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) National Essay Competition, which had over 5,000 entries. Iyeomoan’s essay titled, “How to Fight Economic and Financial Crimes to Make Nigeria Great,” was selected as the best from the over 5000 entries received by …
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Nigeria’s Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, on Tuesday said the government could only afford 23.5 percent salary increase for lecturers, while a 35% increment will be enjoyed by professors. The minister also noted that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) warned against signing agreements which the government will not be able to meet. Adamu disclosed this while speaking during the …
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It was the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who first began to call Nigeria a zoo. Kanu holds that nothing ever works in the ‘zoo’ and that nothing will ever function properly! The Zoo Story we must recall is a 1958 one-act play written by an American playwright, Edward Albee. The play explores themes …
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