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10,000 Nigerians have died crossing the Mediterranean this year

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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has reported that no fewer than 10,000 Nigerians died between January and May 2017 while trying to illegally migrate through the Mediterranean Sea and the deserts. The Punch on Saturday quoted NIS Assistant Comptroller-General, in charge of training, manpower and development, Mr. Maroof Giwa, who spoke in Ilorin, on the sidelines of a training on ‘trafficking in persons/smuggling of migrants at various borders’. He said 4,900 Nigerians died in the Mediterranean Sea while the rest died while going through the deserts in their bid to cross to Europe. This is just as the Kwara State Comptroller, NIS, Mrs. Abiodun Abimbola-Ojo, said the command rescued no fewer than 36 victims of trafficking from 2015 till date. She also urged people to provide NIS with useful information that would aid the agency to effectively combat trafficking. Giwa said Nigeria is a member of many international instruments and had signed a number of agreements and tre...
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JUST IN: Nnamdi Kanu arrives Umuahia, meets parents for the first time since his release (photos)

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NEWS BUZZ 386 USD/NGN BREAKING: Boko Haram kill 9 soldiers at Lake Chad, lose 40 members in gun duel Advertise with us JUST IN: Nnamdi Kanu arrives Umuahia, meets parents for the first time since his release from kule prison Abuja . UPDATED: 6 HOURS AGO   - The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu is currently in hometown in Isiama Afara in Abia state - Kanu arrived on Friday, May 5, to meet with his parents - He was also at the Enugu Cenotaph for a private prayer and to honour those who were lost during the Nigeria-Biafra civil war The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has arrived his hometown in Isiama Afara, Umuahia in Abia state. The IPOB leader arrived Umuahia on Friday, May 5, exactly one week after his release from Kuje Prison in Abuja.  Speaking to our reporter, Kanu's father, Eze Israel Kanu said he is full of joy for his son's safe return. Speaking in his native dialect - Igbo - Eze Kanu said: "My heart is ful...
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Ajaokuta steel company to create 500,000 upstream, downstream employment, Administrator

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The Federal Government says the first phase of Ajaokuta Steel Company will provide 500,000 upstream and downstream employment when it becomes operational.   Mr Isah Onobere, the Sole Administrator of the company made this known during a media tour to the company on Friday Onobere said that the first phase of the plant would also provide direct employment for 10,000 technical staff when inaugurated. He also said the first phase had been completed, adding that it was envisaged to produce 1.3 million tonnes of liquid steel per annum. He said that it would cost 400 million dollars to complete Ajaokuta steel, which had reached 98 per cent completion.      click the link to join https://helpinghandsinternational.biz/Freedom96   According to him, two billion dollars is needed for infrastructure rehabilitation and operational cost.  He said that government had begun to commit resources toward the maintenance and preservation of the equipment and f...
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BREAKING: Buhari, Malami, others attend Juma'at Service

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join for more info.. https://helpinghandsinternational.biz/Freedom96 President Muhammadu Buhari has made his first public appearance in two weeks as he is currently attending Friday’s Juma'at service. Buhari is joined by the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, the National Security Adviser, Mohammed Babagana Monguno, and other officials at Friday’s Juma'at service.  Our sources can report that since he attended Juma'at prayer at the Aso Villa in Abuja on Friday, April 21, Buhari has not made any public appearance.  President Buhari has not been seen in public in two weeks. He has also been absent from the last couple of Federal Executive Council meetings held at the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja. reported that the president was also missing at the Juma’at prayer at Aso Villa mosque on Friday, April 28.  Copy and paste the link below to earn money by jus reading mails.. http://www.ermail.com/link/a7clXcYj7CCajjjjj72ejccAeYCN...
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No Chance for APC, PDP...Accord party declares...

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The Accord Party has urged all political parties to forget about winning any seat in the forthcoming council poll - The Lagos state chairman of the party, Gbenga Kool said that Mushin people would not vote for any other party except Accord Party - Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) has fixed July 22 for local government elections The Accord Party has urged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as other political parties to forget about winning any seat in the forthcoming council poll in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State. The Lagos State Chairman of the party, Mr Gbenga Kool told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that Mushin people would not vote for any other party except Accord Party. NAN reports that the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) has fixed July 22 for local government elections and July 29 for run-off if the need arises.  386 USD/NGN ;      No chance for APC, PDP, others in local go...
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Wike Resign you are unfit to be a governor.. APC Speaks

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The APC berates Governor Wike for failing to keep his vow to sue the FG over the $43m found in a luxury apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos state - The party describes Wike is an alarmist whose single agenda since he assumed office as the governor of Rivers state is to destroy Amaechi by any means - The APC alleged that Wike has put Rivers state account in red through looting and the borrowing of over N100 billion from banks, without investing it in any tangible projects The Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has demanded for the immediate resignation of Governor Nyesom Wike for reportedly belittling the high office that he occupies. The party which made the call in a statement on Friday, May 5, in Port Harcourt, blasted Wike for failing to keep his vow to sue the federal government if it failed to return the $43m found in a luxury apartment in Ikoyi Lagos to the Rivers state government within one week.     recalls that Wike had claimed that the money b...
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I pledge to Nigeria my country

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It is sad the way Nigeria is been hated  I said these due yo the Olympic fake gold medalist winning fight, I don't know if am the only one that notice the way that referee treated our national identity. Our pride, that was so outrageous and a total lack of respect to a national flag. For no reason should that white referee throw away any nations national identity that act was absolutely an abomination and I stand as a Nigerian with the diplomatic rights of the ruling laws of my Nigerian constitution to stand up to my right and say know to that act of disregard to my right.  As such  I request that referee should be charged to international human rights court to pay for his damage on Nigeria as a diplomatic nation under indepence. Watch the clips from channels Monday may 1st sports today video and you will feel the same way I felt before crying out....
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5 die as soldiers, policemen clash over girlfriend in Damaturu

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DAMATURU—a  clash between soldiers and policemen over a girlfriend left four mobile police officers and one soldier dead  in Damaturu, Yobe State capital, yesterday, with several others injured. Among the wounded mobile police officer is Buba Dauda, the Mobile Commander in Yobe State, whose abduction by the soldiers in the wee hours of yesterday triggered the face-off between the two security agencies. Vanguard gathered from sources that the clash resulted from a misunderstanding that erupted between a serving Army Captain and some mobile policemen over a girlfriend the military officer allegedly snatched from a mobile policeman. The situation did not go down well with the policeman, who mobilised his colleagues to beat the Captain comatose. On hearing what happened to their colleague, some soldiers stormed the residence of the police team’s boss in the area in two patrol vans and took him to an unknown destination. It was gathered that  the fight began when some mobil...
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Ex-govs should be made to account for security vote – Peter Obi

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Former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has described security votes as the biggest source of waste in the country and asked that governors be made to account for them. Obi, who also described security votes as unconstitutional, spoke at The Platform, a programme organised by Covenant Christian Centre, Lagos. Security vote is our biggest source of WASTE - Obi The Platform: Obi Says Whoever Owned Stashed Cash Could Have Helped Nigeria Economically Pt 1 CHANNELS TELEVISION · 11 HOURS AGO The former governor said: “Let me tell Nigerians; there is nothing in our constitution called security votes. Anybody who tells you that is lying. It is a terminology that was formulated over the years from one thing or the other. What we have is contingency fund. “I can say today that it is being abused, it has become our biggest source of waste. Security vote is not supposed to be more than two, three maximum four percent of security votes. Today it is 20, 3...
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Ogun State: NLC members walks out of May day celebration

ABEOKUTA-Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun on Monday  announced the pardon of three out of the remaining four workers earlier dismissed for an alleged misconduct during the World Teachers Day celebration in October last year. Announcing the pardon in his address at the event to mark the workers Day, governor Amosun said, “the dismissed workers are pardoned, they will now proceed on retirement from the public service with full terminal benefits in accordance with the extant public service regulations.” Those affected by the pardon are Messrs Dare Ilekoya, Eniola Atiku and Nola Balogun, while the state Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Akeem Ambali was left out in the pardon. The Governor acknowledged the mediatory roles played by the National leadership of the labour unions, particularly the Comrade Michael Alogba-led NUT; the national leadership of the NLC and TUC, as well as revered Elders like Baba Olusegun Obasanjo and respected traditional rulers ac...
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I did not snub Ooni of Ife – Oba of Lagos, Akiolu

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The Oba of Lagos, His Royal Majesty Oba Rilwan Akiolu has cleared the air on the video in the social media being misconstrued for Oba of Lagos snubbing the Ooni of Ife, His Royal Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi at a public function in Lagos. One of the white cap chiefs, Lateef Aderibigbe Ajose, Opeluwa Onido of Lagos, said the Lagos Monarch did not ignore Ooni of Ife at the public function as being misconceived by people. He said Oba Akiolu’s response to Ooni is the culturally acclaimed way of greeting by a monarch in Lagos. He added that the Lagos King is basically trying to revive the culture and tradition of ancient Lagos which is peculiar to the State. Other tribes also have their peculiar ways of greeting. “The sign by Oba Akiolu signifies, ‘inu mi, inu e’, the culture of greeting in Lagos. If Oba Akiolu wanted to ignore, he would have turned his face away from Ooni”, he said. In his words, “there is no misunderstanding between both highly revered Monarchs in Yoruba Land”. Accor...
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Nigerian-cooked jollof rice as “the best in the world”’

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Abuja – Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice-President on Monday described Nigerian-cooked jollof rice as “the best in the world”. Nigerian-cooked jollof rice as “the best in the world” The Vice-President while speaking at “The Platform Nigeria,” a Global Media live broadcast LIVE on Channels TV and online convened by Poju Oyemade, Senior Pastor of the Covenant Christian Centre, in Lagos said: “And by the way, we all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best, we beat the Ghanaians and the Senegalese hands down.” “We have everything, and our people are doing incredibly innovative things. “Our music and entertainment industry is the fastest growing in the world,and of course, nobody is as funny as Nigerians, whether professional or amateur,”he noted. The VP also extolled Nigerians innovative feats in various fields,especially in recent times. “Last year Oluyinka Olutoye, a Nigerian surgeon successfully took out a baby from her mother’s womb, operated on the womb, and put the bab...
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Buhari assures workers of speedy passage of national minimum wage

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Abuja – Federal Government on Monday in Abuja assured the Nigeria workers of speedy passage of the new National Minimum Wage. Prseident Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari said this in a message to workers on the occasion marking the 2017 May Day Rally with the theme, “Labour Relations in Economic Recession: An Appraisal”.                         President buhari “I am happy to inform you that Government will give expeditious consideration to the proposal contained in the Technical Committee’s Report which was submitted to it on April 6, 2017. “Government will take necessary steps to implement the final recommendation of the Main Government/Labour Committee as it relates to the setting up the new National Minimum Wage Committee and the needed palliatives. “This is in order to reduce the discomfort currently being experienced by the Nigerian working class. “I want to assure you that government will continue to do a...
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Nimet predicts heavy down pour on tuesday

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Abuja – The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudy weather condition over the central states of the country on Tuesday, with chances of localised thunderstorms over Ibi and Mambilla during the morning hours. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office (CFO) on Monday in Abuja, also predicted localised thunderstorms over the high ground areas later in the day. It added that the central states would have day and night temperatures of 31 to 38 and 18 to 25 degrees Celsius respectively. The agency predicted morning cloudiness with chances of localised thunderstorms over the southern states, with day and night temperatures of 31 to 35 and 20 to 25 degrees Celsius respectively. It also predicted evening/night localised thunderstorms over coastal cities of Port Harcourt, Calabar, Yenagoa, Akure, Ado Ekiti, Benin, Warri, Oshogbo, Owerri, Enugu, Awka and Abakaliki. According to NiMet, northern states will experience partly cloudy condition with chances of lo...
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World billionaire "Bill gates" takes a keke ride in india

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The richest man in the world, Bill Gates, has once again shown that he has simple tastes - The multibillionaire shared a photo of himself taking a ride in a tricycle - He was on one of his yearly visits to India when he took the ride In the world we live in, most people are concerned about living a life of affluence and driving round town in luxurious cars. That is not the case of the world’s richest man, Bill Gates. The legendary founder of the world’s largest software firm, Microsoft, was spotted taking a ride in a tricycle popularly called Keke Napep or Keke Marwa in Nigeria. Reporters learnt that he took the ride while in India. According to Gates who shared the photo on his Facebook page, he tries to visit India at least once every year and each time, he is inspired by something new.Bill Gates was on one of his yearly visits to India when he took the ride The photo got so over 132,000 likes and as much as 6,485 shares on Facebook. On Twitter, it has collected a whopping 13,...
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After Nnamdi Kanu's release, PDP makes huge demand from Buhari

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  After Nnamdi Kanu's release, PDP makes huge demand from Buhari Author: Soonest Nathaniel UPDATED: 44 MINUTE ago President Buhari has been asked to release the "political prisoners" he has in his custody - The Peoples Democratic Party have demanded that PMB releases Sule Lamido and Gabriel Suswan - According to the PDP, the arrest of both members of the party was politically engineered The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Caretaker Committee has called for the unconditional release of two members of the party. PDP has demanded that the former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, ex-Governor Gabriel Suswan and other political detainees in government custody, be released. Our sources gathered that the PDP made the call in a statement issued by Dayo Adeyeye, the national publicity secretary of the committee on Monday, May 1. The party said its attention has been once again drawn to “unwarranted arrest and detention” of Lamido by men of the Nigerian Police Force (N...
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Proceed on medical leave without any further delay - Eminent Nigerians urge Buhari

     Nigerians are concerned about President Muhammadu Buhari's health which is reportedly deteriorating - Some prominent Nigerians in a joint statement urged the president to take medical leave.    Pr esident Muhammadu has been asked by some eminent Nigerians to heed the advice of his personal physicians by taking medical leave to take care of his health. This follows speculations that the president is seriously ill which is why he has been absent at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting and other state functions. The advice was contained in a statement titled, “President Buhari Should Take Medical Leave Immediately” and jointly issued on Monday, May 1, The Nation reports.       Those who signed the statement were lawyer and activists, Femi Falana (SAN); Senior Fellow Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja, Professor Jibrin Ibrahim; Executive Chairman, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), Mr. Debo Adeniran; Senior Lecture...
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