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Fire outbreak is a sudden eruption, an outburst of flame, light and heat which is produced when something burns. It normally spreads very quickly and stretches over a large area. It can be intentional or unintentional. One of the commonest calamities at this time of the year is fire outbreak which is mostly brought about ...
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Nigeria’s energy crisis has become an endemic disaster. From high energy cost to its scarcity. Everyday, Nigerians battle with energy challenges. Government’s approach to address the nation’s energy problem has not yielded results despite gulping huge yearly budgetary allocations. Transmission, distribution and generation sub-sectors have refused to grow. For Nigeria’s power sector, it has been a ...
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The widely reported cases of the recent COVID-19 pandemic in China is an evidence to the federal government of Nigeria to put a red alert in all the nation’s borders including airports, seaports and landports across the four walls of the country. In December 2019, a cluster of a typical cases of pneumonia were reported ...
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With six weeks to go to Nigeria’s general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) nationwide by one week. INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, said that the deadline for the collection of PVCs has been shifted to Sunday, January 29 to ensure that ...
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For over two decades of civil rule in Nigeria, the country has continued to export her crude, while importing refined products, resulting in incessant scarcity and unprecedented hike in prices, unleashing avoidable hardship on the citizenry. From 1999, and till date, the politicians have been promising to revitalise the refineries that are moribund, which ordinarily ...
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The Ranking of Nigeria as the highest crude oil producer in Africa last month, according to the latest monthly oil market report by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a welcome development in the energy sector and a challenge to redouble effort by the government to secure pipelines and production platforms against theft ...
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One thing that is common with the dry season, that is from November to March is rampant fire incident. Hardly will a week pass by during this period without reported fire incident of varying degrees and many times with colossal losses. Just last week Tuesday, a former Nigeria Ambassador to Zambia/Malawi, and one-time Commissioner for ...
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January 15 is Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Nigeria, an annual event to commemorate the nation’s servicemen and fallen heroes. The event, celebrated on January 15 each year, also honours veterans of World War I and II, as well as the Nigerian Civil War. It is a day set aside for sober reflections on the ...
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Public primary and secondary schools across 36 states in Nigeria today have lost the glory of the past. Rehabilitation and construction projects related to primary and secondary schools have become instruments of fund diversion. Hence, public projects are initiated by State Governors in a calculated attempt to divert fund. For instance in Ogun, several mega ...
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It is exactly 21 days to the deadline issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the return of the old N200, N500, and N1,000 banknotes following the currency redesign programme. But, what has been pondering on mind is this: can the apex bank beat the deadline (January 31st) considering the fact that the ...
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While everyone is busy thanking God and relishing seeing the brand new year on January 1, 2023, the news filtered in the afternoon that some suspected arsonists set a couple ablaze shortly after returning from the crossover service held to mark the arrival of the new year. The only son of the couple as well ...
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Lagos State government is embarking on the Fourth Mainland Bridge project, which is expected to lift the state socioeconomically, but at the same time heightening fears and anxiety because of the envisaged adverse effects it will have on hundreds of families in the state. The 38-kilometre bridge is expected to gulp about $2.5 billion (about ...
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Following failure of the Federal Ministry of budget to sanction budget implentation defaulters, ensuring full implentation and ensuring effective sanction for 2022 budget implementation defaulters will be highly appreciated. President Muhammadu Buhari had signed 2023 budget into law. What remains is the implementation. The signing of the eight and the final annual budget of this ...
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completing their second term of right years have commenced mop up of state treasuries. The action of Oyetola should be emulated by serving Governors and other political office holders. It is not strange that most of these outgoing Governors are contesting for Senate so as to defend their cooked accounts.To encourage others to emulate Oyetola, ...
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With the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) pronouncement that the non-oil exporters repatriated the sum of $4.99 billion into Nigeria in 2022. The Governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this while delivering a keynote address at the second edition of the RT-200 Bi-annual Export Summit recently in Lagos. It is time for our teeming ...
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As President Muhammadu Buhari prepares to exit power come May 29th next year, it has become increasingly glaring that Nigeria’s decade-old electricity crisis will persist despite his pledge to turn things around. Though estimates of power needs for Africa’s largest economy range from 25,000MW to 40,000MW, installed generating power capacity is about 12,522MW, and transmission ...
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More condolences and condemnations have continued to set social media ablaze across the four walls of Nigeria over the Christmas day avoidable killing by a police officer of Omoblanle Raheem, a Lagos-based lawyer. Many prominent Nigerians have taken to social media to express outrage over the killing and call for justice for the deceased. Men ...
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There was a dichotomy between Higher National Diploma (HND) holders and university degree graduates. University graduates were rated above their polytechnic counterparts at any meeting point to the dissatisfaction of the latter. The narration was expected to change when a legislative bill was passed to put an end to the discrimination between the two. The ...
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Christians celebrate Christmas as a remembrance of the birth of Jesus Christ. The birth brought joy to the Christian world after several years of prophesies. While Boxing Day is a day for giving out to the less privileged in the society. Can we still find joy in Nigeria’s society today where kidnappings and bombing have ...
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Fanfare and controversies have surrounded the just concluded world cup that saw Argentina emerge as the winner of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Football lovers and even those who seem disinterested followed the games all over the world. Qatar was awarded the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup on 2nd of December 2010. ...
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Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Oyo State Command, has said it recovered over N80 million fraudulently obtained from unsuspecting public members between January and November. NSCDC Commandant, Michael Adaralewa, who disclosed this during the end-of-the-year get-together in Ibadan, said the Command also resolved 800 disputes during the period under review. Adaralewa, represented by ...
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The internal rumbling among President Muhammadu Buhari Administration members raises serious concern. The recent in-fighting between the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele and the Department of State Services (DSS), is a typical example. Outside Nigeria's frail economy decorated with heightened inflation, energy crisis, unemployment, poverty and insecurity, Nigerians still have ...
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The US-Africa summit has come and gone. The US President, Joe Biden, and a group of US business leaders met with 49 African presidents and many business stakeholders. He made promises to improve the US bilateral and multilateral relationship with Africa. He had spent much of his first two years in office trying to assuage ...
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An independent judiciary is necessary to ensure the rule of law is respected. Judicial independence means that judges are not subject to pressure and influence and are free to make impartial decisions based solely on fact and law. The independence of the judiciary protects individual liberties and prevents a tyranny of the majority. Examples include ...
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For almost four months on now, Nigerians have continued to groan amidst unending queues for Premium Motor Spirit (petrol, as popularly known) at filling stations. The long queues started appearing at the filling stations across the country in September, forcing the price of the petroleum products to jump from N180/litre to between N205 and N210 ...
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On Tuesday, the Senate approved N559,080,711,000 as the fiscal budget for the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to drive continuous growth in the telecommunications industry. There are several examples of this telecoms growth in Africa. In South Africa, the wireless telecommunication services market grew by 7.5 per cent in 2021, reaching a value of $7.2 billion. ...
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Just less than 90 Days to the 2023 General Elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised the alarm over desperate politicians wanting to win by all cost through sharp practices of buying the Permanent Voters Cards (PVC)from the electorate. The Election umpire emphasised such unwholesome happening is posing a challenge towards achieving a ...
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The Central Bank of Nigeria last week Tuesday put a limit on cash withdrawal made by individuals and organisations with effect from January 9, 2023. In a memo signed by the Director of Banking Supervision, Haruna Mustafa, the apex bank directed all banks and other financial institutions to ensure that over-the-counter cash withdrawals by individuals ...
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The Atlas Lions of Morocco, against all odds have set new record as the first African country to qualify for semi-final of the FIFA World Cup. The North African country achieved this feat after their hard earned victory over Portugal in the ongoing World Cup in Qatar, in a quarter final match. The North African ...
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There have been ripple of reactions following the latest Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revised policy on cash withdrawal. CBN’s revised guidelines on the effective implementation of the naira redesign policy states that from 9th January 2022, Automated Teller Machines, ATM/ Point of Sales, POS withdrawals would be limited to N20,000 Per Day. The notification ...