Year: 2017

2017: A year to forget By Christopher Akor

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Perhaps, the report last week by the National Bureau of Statistics that between January and September 2017, 4.07 million Nigerians lost their jobs summed up the terrible situation in the country. Although the economy came out of its first recession in 25 years, it is still bleeding jobs in a situation where the birth rate is growing at almost 3 percent. The 4.07 added to the 11.92 million already unemployed Nigerians raising the unemployment number to 15.99 million in the third quarter of 2017. That is not all. Millions of…

Mugabe to live in opulence, retirement benefits unveiled

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The panoply of generous benefits that Zimbabwe’s former leader, Robert Mugabe will enjoy in retirement has been published by his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a gazette. According to the gazette, Mugabe shall enjoy no fewer than the services of six security personnel, two drivers, two private secretaries and two aide-de-camp officers and two office attendants. His office will be fully furnished , with at least a landline telephone and a cellphone, two computers and such other office equipment and materials as might be determined by the reigning President. Mugabe,…

US Govt Offers to Sell Super Aircraft to Nigeria

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The America government has communicated her readiness to sell a super war aircraft to Nigeria government,the United States (US) Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, expressed this today while presenting the Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) in respect of the A29 Super Tucano Aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). The LOA indicated the official US Government offer to sell US defence articles and services to the Nigerian Government. Speaking while presenting the LOA to the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, at NAF Headquarters in…

Chinese Activist Sentenced to 8 Years for Shaming Officials

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A Chinese human rights activist who went by the online name “Super Vulgar Butcher” and made public shaming of officials a raucous art form was sent to prison for eight years after a court declared him guilty of subversion on Tuesday after an earlier, secretive trial. The activist, whose real name is Wu Gan , became renowned among rights advocates for helping organize boisterous protests outside courthouses and government offices to support plaintiffs and defendants who accused officials of abusing their power. Mr. Wu, easily recognized by his shaven head…

BIKE ACCIDENT: YUSUF BUHARI IN STABLE CONDITION

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf Buhari had a bike accident last night around Gwarimpa in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. According a statement signed by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Yusuf broke a limb and also sustained an injury to the head from the accident .Garba said Yusuf has undergone surgery at a clinic in Abuja, and now in a stable condition. The President and his wife, Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, have also expressed their gratitude to Nigerians for the good wishes and…

President Muhammadu Buhari: My Man of The Year By Bayo Oluwasanmi

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“I have seen corruption boil and bubble Till it o’er-run the stew.” – Shakespeare, Measure for Measure For Nigerians, the popular slogan – smiling and suffering – borrowed from one of the songs of the irresistible and irrepressible Abami Eda, Fela Anikulapo, assumes a bitter and biting meaning of life of poverty and pauperism, barbarism and cruelty, hate and hunt, hopelessness and helplessness. It is amazing how the brain capacity of Nigerians is able to withstand the extent of sorrow and sadness that cripple their lives to a screeching halt.…

Former Soccer Star George Weah is Liberia’s New President

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Retired footballer George Weah has won the elections in Liberia to become that country’s 25th president. The senator of Montserrado County – once named FIFA World Player and winner of the much coveted Ballon d’or – defeated his 73-year-old opponent Vice President Joseph Boakai in a landslide victory in results announced in Liberia on Wednesday morning. “I am deeply grateful to my family, my friends, and my loyal supporters who contributed to our campaign during this extremely long election season,” Weah said on Twitter before the results were announced. Weah…

YELUTIDE: Senator Melaye Felicitates With Nigerians, Urges Federal Government To End Fuel Scarcity

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The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District of Kogi state, Senator Dino Malaye has urged the Federal Government to immediately end the untoward hardship being faced by Nigerians as a result of the present artificial scarcity of fuel, this appeal was contained in a Christmas message personally signed by him. Dino said fuel scarcity currently experience by Nigerians were not fault of the citizens, but failure of leadership in the nation’s oil sector. Senator Dino said “I congratulate fellow Nigerians and in particular the Christian faithful on the occasion of…

The “Human” Side of Buhari? By Farooq Kperogi

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There is, perhaps, no clearer, more direct admission that Buhari is an inhuman and insensitive, not to mention thoroughly incompetent, president than the fact that his own media team has decided to show Nigerians a documentary about his “human” side—amid one of the most crippling petrol shortages in the history of the country. The fact that the presidency now wants to show us Buhari’s “human” side is prima facie evidence that even he himself— and the people around him— know only too well what we’ve been saying all along: that…

XMAS: Al-Habibiyyah Society Shares Food Items to IDP’s

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Members of an Abuja based Islamic organisation, Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society on Monday spent Christmas day at the Wasa IDP Camp in the Apo area of the Federal Capital Territory, where they shared food items to the people of the community.   The head of the Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society’s Food Bank who also doubled as the Coordinator of the outreach Programme, Malam Suleiman Farouk by the Society under which the outreach was done Alhaji Farouk Suleiman said they chose the long Christmas holiday for the outreach program so that they can share some…