Month: April 2018

Lassa fever: Hold President Buhari responsible for Abia doctor’s death – PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government directly responsible for the avoidable and painful death of Dr. Ndukwu Chizaram of the Federal Medical Center, Umuahia, Abia state. The party said the promising and patriotic medical practitioner had to pay the supreme price over avoidable exposure to Lassa fever, because of the low premium the APC administration placed on the lives of Nigerians and the health sector in particular. The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Tuesday,…

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Nigerian women urged to embrace e-commerce to expand businesses

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Mr Ahmed Kagara, the South West Regional Head of Bank of Industry (BoI) Nigeria, on Tuesday advised Nigerian women entrepreneurs to embrace e-commerce to grow their businesses. Kagara, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan, on the sideline of the three-day 1st South West Regional E-Commerce Summit and Expo. He said that women entrepreneurs in the country should make use of e-commerce facilities to be in line with best global practices in business. He said that e-commerce was vital for the development…

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Zuckerberg urged to quit Facebook board

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Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook  should quit from the Facebook board to protect user privacy said investor Scott Stringer. Stringer oversees New York City’s pension fund investments with an almost 1billion dollars  stake in the social media platform. The financial officer said an independent chairman for the board was needed to ensure privacy safeguards after revelations that data was harvested from more than 50 million Facebook accounts by Cambridge Analytica. Earlier, the Facebook CEO defended his leadership following criticism from Apple’s Tim Cook. Mark Zuckerberg said that Cook’s suggestion that his company did not care about…

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Donald Trump says he will use military to protect US border

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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would use U.S. military forces to protect the nation’s southern border with Mexico until there is a border wall and “proper security’’ in place. “We are going to be doing things militarily,” Trump said at the White House, adding he had discussed the idea with U.S. Defence Secretary, Jim Mattis. “Until we can have a wall and proper security we’re going to be guarding our border with the military. That’s a big step,” he said. “We cannot have people flowing into our country…

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13-year-old boy hangs self in Gombe

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A 13-year-old son of a policeman is suspected to have hanged himself in Gombe, the police said on Tuesday. DSP Mary Malum, the Police Public Relations Officer in Gombe State, said the boy, identified as Muhammadu Al-amin, was found hanging in his room. Malum said that about 4 p.m. on Monday, the father, Insp. Abdu Manu attached to Criminal Investigation Bureau of Pantami Division, received a phone call from his wife that their 13-year-old son had been found dead in his room. She said the father reported that the boy…

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Where is the Nigerian opposition?

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Less than a year to the next general election in Nigeria, the biggest deficit in the political process leading to that moment is the absence of a robust, virile and effective opposition. The role of the opposition in a democracy is to question, criticize, challenge, and audit the governments of the day – local and national – and make them more transparent and accountable, and even if these twin-objectives may not be immediately achieved, the opposition exists nonetheless to put the people in power “on their toes” as it were…

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Umahi vows to drag ex-SSG to court

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Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi on Tuesday, swore-in Dr Hyginus Nwokwu as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG) to replace Prof. Bernard Odoh. Odoh tendered his resignation letter to  Umahi on Monday over alleged government’s inconsistent policies, but the governor in a reaction  said Odoh had been sacked. Umahi, while swearing-in the new SSG, vowed that after reviewing Odoh’s resignation letter, he would probe the allegations he made in the letter. “I will find out if he breached his oath of office through the contents of the letter…

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Cristiano Ronaldo scores in record 10th straight Champions League match

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Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo scored in his 10th straight Champions League match on Tuesday, breaking the record previously held by Ruud van Nistelrooy. Ronaldo poked home from a fine Isco assist just three minutes into Real’s Champions League quarterfinal first leg against Juventus in Turin. The goal marked the five-time Ballon d’Or winner’s 15th in the historic 10-game run. The streak began in Los Blancos’ 4-1 Champions League final win over Juve last spring. The Portugal captain leads the Champions League in goals this campaign with 13, and has…

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Presidency spurns Obasanjo’s failure assessment

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The presidency has said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s failure tag on the current administration is not new. It said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari would, therefore, not join issues with the former president over his comments and assessment. Obasanjo had on Monday night, while addressing a group of youths, who visited him at his country home Abeokuta, described the Buhari’s administration as a failure. Obasanjo also asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) -led government to stop complaining about the challenges it met on the ground. “What we…

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1.7m World Cup tickets sold – FIFA

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FIFA says almost 1.7 million tickets have been sold for the World Cup in Russia after some 400,000 were snapped up in the latest sales stage which ended on Tuesday. The ruling body FIFA said that 394,433 tickets were sold during a first-come, first-served window since March 13. Russians dominated by buying 216,134 of them, followed by fans from the not qualified U.S. (16,462), Argentina (15,006), Colombia (14,755) and Mexico (14,372). In all, 1,698,049 tickets have now been sold for the June 14 to July 15 tournament in 11 Russian…

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