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40 Years After Festac, African Culture and Design Festival Beckons

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Africa’s rich cultural heritage can no longer be overlooked or viewed remotely from discriminatory and narrow foreign perspectives. African Culture and Design Festival will serve as the nexus between Africa’s past and present through the careful selection of relevant and specific objects. With the theme ‘This Is Africa,’ the festival, being one of a kind, will bring the world to experience Africa in Nigeria through tastefully segmented pavilions namely Design, Modern and Contemporary Art, Traditional and Video Installation. Curating the Design Pavilion will be President, Interior Designers Association of Nigeria…

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Four dead as helicopter crashes in Japan

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Four men were killed Wednesday when a private helicopter crashed in a mountainous area of Japan, officials said. The chopper was discovered ablaze on a bridge in the small village of Ueno, around 150 kilometres (90 miles) northwest of the capital Tokyo. “Four people on board were found dead,” a transport ministry official told AFP. The AS332-L Super Puma helicopter was operated by the Toho Air Service, which confirmed that four male staff members were on board at the time of the accident. An official with the local emergency services…

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Senate scraps Excess Crude Account

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The Senate yesterday passed a resolution abolishing the Excess Crude Account (ECA) setup in 2004 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The resolution followed a motion sponsored by Rose Oko (PDP, Cross River) and 44 others, tagged: “ The Excess Crude Account: an illegality and a drain pipe”. However, while Oko advocated for the suspension of the ECA, Senator Mohammed Hassan (PDP, Yobe) moved for the amendment of the prayer to recommend the scrapping of the account, which was supported by all. The Senate also passed a resolution requesting the executive…

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70% of pharmaceutical products circulating in Nigeria fake – PwC

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At least 70 per cent of pharmaceutical products circulating in Nigeria are fake, says Dr. Andrew Nevin, the Financial Services Advisory Leader and Chief Economist, Project Blue, PWC Nigeria. Nevin said this in his keynote address at the opening of the 90th Annual National Conference of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) in Umuahia, the Abia capital. According to him, Africa records at least 100,000 deaths, arising from fake drug-related ailments, annually. He, therefore, underscored the need for the Federal Government, National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control…

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Full text of Buhari’s speech at e-Nigeria Conference 2017

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President Muhammadu Buhari has reaffirmed the commitment of his administration to the growth of information technology in the nation. The President, who spoke in Abuja on Monday while declaring open e-Nigeria 2017 conference organised by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) with the theme, ‘Fostering Digital Economy through Local Content Development and Effective Regulations’ maintained that there were huge opportunities for ICT use in the country in view of its population identifying job creation as one of the benefits. Buhari, who noted that ICT plays a pivotal role with…

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11 shot dead in Plateau

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Eleven people were Tuesday night shot dead by gunmen along Rim, Riyom Local Government Area of northern Plateau State. According to the Police Public Relations Office of the Plateau State Police Command, Terna Tyopev, the victims were returning from a village market in Makera when they were attacked by the gunmen. Tyopev added that police were on the trail of the attackers. “Eleven people who were returning from a weekly village market of Makera were shot dead at about 7:30 p.m., four others are injured.” “No arrest yet, but investigation…

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Voters rebuff Trump in Virginia, New Jersey

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U.S. Democrats won the governorship races in Virginia and New Jersey and the mayoral race in New York on Tuesday, dealing a major blow to President Donald Trump. In Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam beat Republican Ed Gillespie, who had adopted some of Trump’s combative tactics and issues. Northam, the state’s lieutenant governor, overcame a barrage of attack ads by Gillespie that hit the soft-spoken Democrat on divisive issues such as immigration, gang crime and Confederate statues. Trump, who endorsed Gillespie but did not campaign with him, had taken a break…

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Italy arrests Libyan, Egyptian over death of 26 Nigerians

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Two men, one of them an Egyptian and the other a Libyan,have been arrested and charged in Italy as investigators look into the deaths of 26 Nigerian women and girls, who are suspected to have been murdered while attempting to cross the Mediterranean. The bodies of the women were brought to the southern Italian port of Salerno by the Spanish ship Cantabria on Sunday, and prosecutors opened an investigation over suspicions that the women, some as young as 14, may have been abused and killed. The bodies were recovered by…

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Nestlé Nigeria launches new “Maggi” cube

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In its continued effort to ensure good nutrition for Nigerians, Nestlé Nigeria Plc on Tuesday launched a new food seasoning cube, the “MAGGI NAIJA POT”, to amplify the authentic Nigerian essence of food. It also announced its Maggi Simply Good with four commitments at the product launch in Sagamu in Ogun State. Mr Mauricio Alarcon, the company’s Chief Executive Officer said at the launch, “We dedicate ourselves to deeply understand the needs and preferences of our consumers, and then we tailor our products to suit local tastes and food cultures.”…

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Amosu, other ex-service chiefs get Dec. 5 for trial

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The absence of Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court, Lagos on Tuesday forced the adjournment until Dec. 5, 6 and 7 the trial of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Adesola Amosu and 10 others charged with N22.8 billion fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on June 29, 2016 arraigned Amosu alongside Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun, Air Commodore Gbadebo Olugbenga and eight companies. The companies are Delfina Oil and Gas Ltd, Mcallan Oil And Gas Ltd, Hebron Housing and Properties Company…

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