Day: March 27, 2018

What Buhari, Saraki, Oyegun discussed at APC caucus meeting

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has said that the National Caucus meeting of the party held on Monday, was “to conclude the agenda we started last time which we didn’t conclude”. Oyegun stated this when he spoke with journalists after the meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja. The national caucus meeting had in attendance, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. Also present at the meeting were other…

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Moscow To Come Down Hard On U.S. Decision To Expel Diplomats

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Russia will not leave the decision of the U.S. to expel 60 Russian diplomats unanswered, but is still willing to maintain dialogue with Washington on the strategic stability, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik on Tuesday. On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats, including 48 employees of the Russian Embassy and 12 people who have been assigned to the UN in New York. Trump also ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle in connection with Moscow’s alleged involvement in the nerve…

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Prenatal Stress Can Change Baby’s Brain – Study

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New evidence from fetal brain scans has shown that a mother’s stress during pregnancy can change the neural connectivity in the brain of her unborn child, potentially affecting the baby’s brain functions. Moriah Thomason, an assistant professor of Wayne State University, presented this new finding on Monday at the 25th meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston. He explained that research in newborns and older children to understand prenatal influences has been confounded by the postnatal environment. But recent advancements in fetal imaging allowed researchers to gain insight into…

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Nigeria, ECOWAS and the Morocco question

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I was in Morocco recently, about 20 years after I last visited Timbuktu, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat and Laayoune. I was quite impressed to see how Morocco with its colour-coded cities remains very much an organized, efficient and a comparatively competitive country. The trip this time began from the Lagos airport aboard the Royal Air Maroc, which now plies the Lagos-Casablanca route. Twenty years earlier, I had to go first to Paris, France, change from one airport to the other, before boarding another flight to Morocco. This crisis of transportation, having…

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Nigeria heading to no destination – Wike

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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has declared that Nigeria is permanently on a dangerous downward slide and heading to no destination. Governor Wike stated this on Monday, while swearing in four judges of the state’s High Court and Customary Court of Appeal, at the Government House, Port Harcourt, the state capital. He said that the state’s security has been deliberately compromised by security agencies who work with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to undermine security of lives and property. According to Governor Wike, the recent deliberate crisis and threat…

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Bill Gates: Why I spoke directly to Nigerian leaders

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Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, again on Monday told the CNN that his criticism of the Nigerian government was to ensure that the country put more investment in education and health sectors. According to him, the current level of investments in those areas were just not good enough. “While it may be easier to be polite, it’s more important to face facts so that you can make progress,” the philanthropist said at the special meeting of National Economic Council that included the governors, leading Nigerian businessmen as well as Vice President…

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MMM founder Sergei Mavrodi dies of heart attack

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Sergei Mavrodi, a Russian businessman whose MMM pyramid scheme deprived millions of Russians of their savings in the 1990s, has died of a heart attack, according to Russia media. Reports said the 62-year-old was rushed to the hospital late on March 25 with pain in his chest and died several hours later. Mavrodi’s MMM financial pyramid was a typical Ponzi scheme in which earlier investors receive their profits from subsequent investors. Mavrodi promised returns of 20 percent to 75 percent a month, as well as lotteries and bonuses for investors.…

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2019: PDP bad news, APC poisonous – UPP

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The United Progressives Party, UPP, has reacted to the apology made to Nigerians by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. UPP in a statement by its National Chairman, Chekwas Okorie, noted that it was too late for the PDP to ask for forgiveness from Nigerians or plan a comeback. He advised Nigerians to listen to a former Minster of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, adding that it was only her that was seeing correctly at the moment. Okorie said that Nigerians had no choice when it voted the PDP out because “to allow…

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