Month: July 2022

5 Ways To Protect Your House From Thieves

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Every part of your house needs protection, even the seemingly insignificant parts. If you do not take strong security measures to protect your home, thieves can find your house an easy target. It is on your part to protect your home from areas that will not be easy to mark for theft. No thief or thieves will want to steal from a house that will take them a lot of time to break into. They would prefer to steal from an easy-to-break-in house to a house with strong security. 1.…

8 Health Benefits Of Music You May Not Know About

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Almost everyone has a particular song that triggers an emotional response when they hear it. This emotional response depends on the circumstances that accompanied the song the first time we heard it. For instance, a song that accompanied the first dance at your wedding. It could also be a song that reminds you of the loss of a loved one. Music is something we are all touched by. Everyone loves music. This universal bond with music has led researchers to investigate its therapeutic potential. Numerous studies have shown that music…

6 Things That Can Damage Your Smartphone

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For a person who cares about his or her smartphone and wants to reduce the risk of having it damaged, here are a few things you must not do.   1. Using the phone while connected to an electric source The practice of using the phone when connected to an electric source can cause the phone to explode due to overheating. It also poses hazards to one’s life which include the risk of explosion and electrocution.   2. Using a damaged cable or using the wrong charger Every smartphone is…

SDGs, AU- NEPAD AGENDA ; Consolidating Partnership Towards Achieving Global Targets of 2030, 2063 In Nigeria. By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.

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The partnership built over the years between Sustainable Development Goals SDGs in Nigeria and Africa Union, New Partnership for African Development know as AU-NEPAD had waxed stronger in line with the efforts to domesticate, create interdependence and strategic synergy among the two institutions.   The UN SDGs under the leadership of Princess Adejoke Orelope- Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to the President OSSAP SDGs in Nigeria, had through seamless efforts in the last six years attained the crescendo of providing social services, economic development, continental and regional integration, stabilised democracy,…

POS Of Trouble: How Operators Fall Victims Of Yahoo Boys By Femi Ogunlana

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Point of Sale (POS) terminal recently became popular in Nigeria, starting from about 2013 as a terminal where transactions can be made with the use of one’s debit or credit card without having to physically go to a bank. Investopedia defines a Point of Sale (POS) terminal as “a hardware system for processing card payments at retail locations.” Embedded in the hardware is software to read magnetic strips of credit and debit card. The advent of POS terminal is a big relief to bank customers especially in areas far from…

NIMC enrols 86m Nigerians for NIN in 10 years — Official

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The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has enrolled 86 million Nigerians into the National Identity Database and issued them the National Identification Number (NIN) from 2012 to July 2022. According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), The Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of NIMC, Malam Aliyu Aziz, made this known during a ‘Lunch Time Seminar’ organised by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) in Abuja on Friday. Aziz who spoke via zoom said that the commission had not relented in its effort to establish the…

Sickle cell could be treated with local plant, UK study confirms

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•Juice from Alchornea cordifolia plant/Christmas Bush has been used as ‘blood tonic’ in Africa for generations   A new study from the United Kingdom (U.K.) has confirmed that a common plant from West Africa works as a treatment for sickle cell disease.   Scientists at Aberystwyth University, in Wales, isolated a chemical in the Alchornea cordifolia plant, also known as the Christmas Bush, which could help relieve the symptoms of the life-threatening and painful disease suffered by 15,000 people in the United Kingdom (U.K.).   The results were published in…

Port Harcourt refinery to commence operation first quarter of 2023

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The Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited, Ahmed Dikko, has given an assurance that the rehabilitation of the Old Port Harcourt Refinery with a refining capacity of 60,000 barrels per day would be completed and put to use by the first quarter of 2023. Dikko gave the assurance at the weekend when the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on the state of the country’s refineries visited the facility in Rivers State for an on-the-spot assessment of the $1.5 billion rehabilitation project of the facility. He said the…

Kaduna 2023: NNPP ‘ll win Governorship Election, says Sen Hunkuyi ….. as Kwankwaso unveils Party Secretariat in the State

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The New Nigeria People’s Party Governorship Candidate in Kaduna State, Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi has expressed confident that NNPP will not only win governorship election in the state but will also emerge victorious in the presidential election and other elective positions in the 2023 general election. Senator Hunkuyi made the remark after the unveiling of the NNPP Kaduna State Secretariat by Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso, the party’s presidential candidate for the next year February Presidential Election. Kwankwaso who was on a two-day visit to Kaduna State, unveiled the NNPP Kaduna…