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Ohaneze Youth Council threatens shutdown on election day of APC and PDP deny Ndigbo presidential tickets

OHANEZE Youth Council, (OYC) has warned the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that it will call for a total shutdown across the southeast geo-political zone next February if they both deny Ndigbo their presidential tickets.

 

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Whoever becomes Nigeria's next president has no choice but to launch a miracle workers brigade to address our chronic infrastructural crisis

 

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Whenever you get a group of four or five Nigerians together, they simply cannot help themselves. They must lament about the plight of the nation, moaning about corruption, inadequate power supply, a lack of infrastructure, armed robbery, kidnapping, ethnic intolerance, nepotism, religious fundamentalism, poor services, etc. I think this is actually a very positive step as it shows we care

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Lagos high court sentences Dane Peter Nielsen to death for killing his Nigerian wife and daughter

DANISH national Peter Nielsen has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos high court after being found guilty of killing his Nigerian wife and three-year old daughter at their flat in Ikoyi in 2018.

 

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Providus Bank meets with high commissioner Sarafa Ishola ahead of Canuk AGM tomorrow

PROVIDUS Bank has announced ambitious plans to step up its presence in the UK as part of a major plan to tap into the Nigerian diaspora by offering a variety of packages including mortgages and business loans.

 

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Former Ekiti State deputy governor pulls out of senate race accusing Fayose of deception

FORMER Ekiti State deputy governor Professor  Kolapo Olusola has withdrawn from the Peoples Democratic Party's  (PDP) Ekiti South Senatorial primary elections saying that he was deceived into standing by his ex-principal Governor Ayo Fayose.

 

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Nidcom launches diaspora housing mortgage scheme designed to allow diasporans buy homes

NIGERIA'S federal government is planning to launch a comprehensive diaspora housing mortgage scheme that will all diasporans to purchase houses through the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN).

 

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Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers keen to sign Ademola Lookman permanently

LEICESTER City manager Brendan Rodgers has asked the club to open talks with German side RB Leipzig about signing Nigerian winger Ademola Lookman on a permanent basis at the end of the season after being impressed with him during his loan spell.

 

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Frederick Lugard was Nigeria’s most successful economic manager ever and I would actually like to see the next president replicate his feat

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On August 30 1894, British explorer Frederick Lugard began his expedition of the Niger which led to the eventual creation of the nation state called Nigeria. In just 20 years, Lugard had captured nearly 1m square kilometres, subduing about 20m people from 250 different ethnic groups. He created the biggest and most lucrative British colony south of the Sahara to the envy of the Germans and French

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Archbishop of Canterbury adds his voice to condemnation of Deborah Samuel's murder

ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury Rt Reverend Justin Welby had added his voice to the global condemnation of the killing of Shehu Shagari College of Education Deborah Samuel saying such violence is a sin against God.

 

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Muric director Ishaq Akintola says hate speeches by pastors are responsible for the rise in blasphemy

ISLAMIC body the Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has responded to the recent murder of Deborah Samuel at the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto by stating that the rising incidents of blasphemy is partly due hate sermons delivered by pastors.

 

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