• Nigeria

    Ministry, firm tackle heart diseases among Abuja women

    Angel George The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has entered into a partnership with Raffles Oil Enterprise under its Power Oil Healthy Heart Mission project to combat heart-related diseases among women in Abuja. Under the partnership, the two bodies will work together for three years providing opportunities ...

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    N4.7bn fraud: Court adjourns Ladoja’s trial till Monday

    Oladimeji Ramon The Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned further hearing till Monday, October 9, in the case of a former governor of Oyo State, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, who was charged with N4.7bn fraud. Ladoja is being tried alongside a former Commissioner for Finance in Oyo State, Waheed Akanbi. ...

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    N919m fraud: Minister to brief Reps on NHIS boss’ indefinite suspension

    Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has extended the suspension of the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, indefinitely. Adewole is also expected to brief the House of Representatives on his reasons for suspending Usman. Adewole had said in a letter ...

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    Customs seize 3,665 vehicles worth N13bn from smugglers

    Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja A total of 3,665 vehicles with duty paid value of N13.164bn were seized by the Nigeria Customs Service between 2015 and 2017, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), has said.. Ali stated this in a lecture on ‘Problems of smuggling and its consequences on the ...

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    When money grows wings: Senior citizens losing savings to tech criminals

    Kunle Falayi Before 2005 when mobile technology arrived Nigeria, the way personal and business activities in the country took place would make the country today seem like a totally different world. With mobile telephony came a lot of changes that would henceforth make life easier and less stressful physically. A ...

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    Amachree urges tour operators to bring tourists to Nigeria

    The founder, Centre for Promotion of Peace, Tourism, Arts and Culture (CEPTAC) and Nigeria’s Father of Tourism, Chief Mike Amachree has made a passionate call on Nigerian tourism industry practitioners to pay greater attention to inbound tourism by making efforts to sell Nigerian destinations outside. He said: “What Nigeria needs ...

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    When your partner stalks you

    Over 50% of ex-partner stalking started before they left their partner (Mullen, Pathe and Purcell, 2009) They become demanding/controlling, they want to know who you are texting, e-mailing, what you are saying.  They are suspicious, perhaps even paranoid. They are contacting you multiple times a day asking you to confirm ...

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    False declaration: Customs seize containers loaded with foreign rice

    Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt The Nigerian Customs Service, Port Harcourt, Area II Command, has seized three containers containing hundreds of bags of foreign rice, which were falsely declared by an importer. The Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Abubakar Bashir, explained that the NCS was able to discover the goods ...

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    Centre Publishes Udeokechukwu’s “Letter to the Future” In Anniversary Anthology

    BY VICTOR OKEKE, Abuja – The Irawo University Centre has published the poem -“A Letter To The Future” which made a top list- written by Chidiebere Udeokechukwu, a University of Nigeria undergraduate law student from Enugu State in its 48th anniversary poetry anthology. The editors of the publication, Nwachukwu Egbunike and Emmanuel ...

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    Kano Hisbah Board Arrests 55 Beggars

    No fewer than 55 beggars were arrested in September by Kano State Hisbah Board for allegedly violating the law banning street begging. Malam Dahiru Muhammed of the board’s Anti-Begging Unit told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Friday that 17 of those arrested were children, while 38 ...