Day: March 28, 2018

Atiku Abubakar: APC has failed Nigerians

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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday declared his intention to contest the position of the President. Atiku made this declaration when he led some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party to the Government House in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. This is as the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said Nigerians must take up the responsibility of sacking the “non-performing” APC Federal Government in 2019. The former Vice-President and other PDP leaders were in the state to consult with chieftains of the party in Rivers State. Atiku said that…

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Facebook announces new steps to protect users’ privacy

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Facebook said Wednesday it would overhaul its privacy settings tools to put users “more in control” of their information on the social media website. “We’ve heard loud and clear that privacy settings and other important tools are too hard to find and that we must do more to keep people informed,” Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan and Deputy General Counsel Ashlie Beringer said in a blog post. “We’re taking additional steps in the coming weeks to put people more in control of their privacy,” they confirmed. The updates include improving…

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Google Maps is now available in 39 new languages

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Google Maps is now available in 39 new languages, the company announced today in a blog post. These languages — including Afrikaans, Danish, Filipino, Hebrew, Icelandic, Mongolian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Turkish, and Vietnamese, to name a few — are spoken by around 1.25 billion people. Keep in mind there are a total of 6,909 living languages recorded in the Ethnologue catalogue. Many of the languages Google chose to add today are spoken by large populations. Swahili, in particular, has 8 percent of the African continent speaking it, while Turkish is spoken by 9…

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North Korea’s President met China’s Xi Jinping on first foreign trip

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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has made his first ever foreign trip as leader to meet China’s president, vowing he is “committed to denuclearisation” and willing to hold summits with the South and the US. The secretive visit was confirmed Wednesday by Chinese and North Korean state media which said Kim was treated to a lavish stay in a show of unity after relations were battered by Beijing‘s support of UN sanctions against Pyongyang. Kim had not met China’s President Xi Jinping since taking over after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in 2011. The young leader…

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Buhari backs Tinubu, says Oyegun’s tenure extension illegal

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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the reversal of tenure elongation of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and other National and State Executive Officers of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He described the elongation of their tenure by one year as unconstitutional. He told the National Executive Committee meeting of the party in Abuja on Tuesday that he had reflected on the elongation and also sought advice and had come to the conclusion that it is unconstitutional. The APC had in its NEC meeting on February 27 extended the tenure of members of…

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Atiku Declares For 2019 Presidency

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Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday declared his intention to run for president in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Abubakar announced his candidacy in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Tuesday, Channels tv reports. The former Vice President said his decision to make the announcement in Rivers State because is because he believes Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike represents what he represented in 1998/99 as the live wire of the PDP. Mr Abubakar who defected from the All Progressives Congress to the…

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Obasanjo attacks Buhari again

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to sign the Africa Continental Free Trade Area agreement. The former President, however, expressed hope that the President will change his mind before it is too late. Obasanjo spoke his mind on the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, during a presidential panel, titled: ‘When Leaders Make History’ at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on Tuesday. The former Head of State was joined by the President of Zimbabwe, Emerson Mnangagwa. Obasanjo said, “That President Buhari…

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Bill Gates, the naked truth and the power of IMPACT!

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In 1999, the Gate’s Foundation pledged US$750 million to set up Gavi Vaccine Alliance. With that commitment, everyone interested in global health matters knew at the time that Bill Gates meant business. With the same drive he deployed at Microsoft, he has pursued the eradication of polio relentlessly. Polio is still endemic in Nigeria. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s share of spending on polio eradication is a third of the global effort. With his immense contribution, polio cases have declined from 400,000 when he started to 22 in 2017.…

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