Month: July 2017

PDP holds National Caucus, BOT, NEC meetings

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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has fixed its expanded National Caucus, Board of Trustees (BoT), and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings for Monday, July 17. The notice of the meeting was jointly issued in Abuja on Saturday by Sen. Ben Obi, the National Secretary of PDP National Caretaker Committee, and Amb. Aminu Wali, the National Secretary of BOT for BOT Chairman. It stated that the meeting of the expanded National Caucus would hold at 8 a.m, at PDP National Secretariat (Wadata Plaza), Abuja. Those invited to attend the meeting were…

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How social media can help students excel – expert

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A communication expert, Mr Olalekan Ajia, says good social media behaviour can aid the performance of students in schools. Ajia, a former Communication for Development Specialist at the United Nations, said this on Saturday at the 21st Annual Lecture of Ijebu Muslim College Old Students’ Association (IMCOSA) in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun. The lecture entitled, “Influence of Social Media on Youth Education; Issues and Challenges,’’ looked at ways of checking abuse of the social media by youths. Ajia said social media could help young people and adults to access informational and educational…

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Internet users in Nigeria now 91 million – NCC

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The Nigerian Communications Commission says in the country internet users increased from 90,124,428 in April to 91,565,010 in May, an increase of 1,440,582. The telecommunications industry regulator made the disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. The data indicates that internet users on both Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) networks increased from 90,154,737 in April to 91,565,319 in May. It said that out of the 91,595,319 internet users in May, 91,565,010…

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8 killed in stadium stampede in Senegal

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No fewer than eight soccer fans were killed on Saturday in a stampede at Demba Diop stadium in the Senegalese capital of Dakar. The stampede occurred during a match between two local teams, the sports minister said. A fight broke out between fans of rivals US Ouakam and Stade de Mbour and police fired tear gas to break it up. The resulting confusion triggered the stampede, Sports Minister Matar Ba said. APS reported that many people were also injured as a wall collapsed at the stadium. At least 49 others…

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Restructuring’ll boost cohesion, good governance – Atiku

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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has expressed confidence that restructuring will contribute meaningfully to national cohesion and good governance. Atiku said this in an address at the third Policy Monitoring Dialogue Series on National Unity, Integration, and Devolution of Power/Restructuring, organised by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, in Abuja, on Friday. He explained that the country’s founding fathers recognised this fact; hence, their choice of a federal system of government, which empowered federating units as against the unitary system foisted on the nation by successive military regimes. According…

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Nigeria’s former oil minister named in US bribery complaint

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US prosecutors on Friday moved to seize $144m in assets including a 200-foot yacht and a Manhattan condominium one block from Central Park, calling them the fruits of an international bribery scheme that involved the then-president of Opec. From 2011 to 2015, two Nigerian oil men, Kolawole Aluko and Olajide Omokore, alledgedly conspired with others to bribe the country’s minister for petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in order to win oil production contracts worth $1.5bn, according to a civil forfeiture complaint. At the time, along with controlling the country’s state-owned oil…

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Saint Obi tasks movie producers on varieties

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Veteran actor Obinna Nwafor popularly known as Saint Obi, has advised producers to come up with different genres of movies to enable viewers to have choices and make Nollywood more lucrative. “The problem with us is that if it is voodoo, everybody rushes into it; if it is comedy, everybody rushes into comedy,’’ Nwafor told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The actor, who has starred in more than 60 movies, spoke to NAN in Lagos on Friday. According to him, there are many genres of films that will prevent…

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Why I dumped England for Nigeria – Iwobi

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Alex Iwobi has revealed how England failed in a last-ditch bid to switch countries back from Nigeria. The Arsenal midfielder, 21, played in Three Lions youth teams before deciding to play international football for the country where he was born. He said, “As I was about to play my first match for Nigeria, Roy Hodgson was in contact with Arsenal saying ‘we’d like him to get involved with Under-21s’ but my mind was made up. It’s my decision. “Originally, I’m from Nigeria. I always felt comfortable there. It was a…

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Osotimehin served God, humanity-Adewole

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Prof. Isaac Adewole, Minister for Health has described the late Babatunde Osotimehin, 68, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as a man who served God and humanity during his journey on earth. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that Osotimehin was one time Minister of Health between 2008 and 2010. Adewole said this on Thursday while speaking with the mediamen at the end of Service of Song organised in honour of Osotimehin in Abuja by National Action Committee against AIDS (NACA). “Osotimehin served both God and humanity throughout…

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Nigeria imported N6.7trn goods that can be produced locally in 2015 – Minister

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Nigeria expended more than N6.7 trillion in 2015 on the importation of goods that the country can produce locally, the Minister of State for In­dustry, Trade and Investment, Hajiya Aisha Abubakar, has said. The minister made the statement on Friday in Kano during the opening of the North-West zonal sensitisation workshop on the campaign for patronage of Made-in-Nigeria products.‎ Abubakar said: “In 2015 alone, over N6.7 trillion was spent on the importation of goods and services which the nation can produce locally. “N1.9 trillion was spent on imported foods and…

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