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OPM’s free specialist hospital: succour to Nigerian masses

OPM’s free specialist hospital: succour to Nigerian masses

May 20, 2019 10:31 am

A joint report on maternal mortality by the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF, World Bank and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates that Nigeria has approximately 58,000 maternal deaths, accounting for 19 per cent globally.

This means that at least 800 women die in every 100,000 live births and to address the high maternal mortality rates, the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, in July 2017 inaugurated a 34-member Taskforce to accelerate reduction of maternal mortality in Nigeria.

The high maternal mortality rate in Nigeria as revealed by the reports of the world renowned agencies became a source of …

Jihadists kill Nigerian soldier, injure others in Mali

Jihadists kill Nigerian soldier, injure others in Mali

May 19, 2019 9:45 pm

A Nigerian soldier was killed and another compatriot was injured in two attacks on the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, UN officials said on Sunday.

Gunmen attacked the UN troops in Timbuktu in the north of the country, where several groups of militants are active, according to Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.

The Nigerian peacekeepers attacked have not been identified.

A further three UN soldiers from Chad were injured in Tessalit in the northern Kidal region near the border with Algeria when their vehicle drove over an explosive device.

The UN chief, Antonio Guterres expressed his “heartfelt …

Nnamdi Kanu lambastes FG for deceiving Nigerian masses

Nnamdi Kanu lambastes FG for deceiving Nigerian masses

May 18, 2019 10:19 pm

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned the Federal Government of Nigeria for misleading the Nigerian masses with old pictures of  Muhammadu Buhari, his wife and others taken in 2016 during an Islamic prayer as if they were recently taken during his purported visit to Saudi Arabia for Islamic spiritual rites.

Kanu, who had in the past proven with profound evidence that the man being paraded as Nigeria’s president is Jubril Al-Sudani, an impostor from Sudan, who looks twice younger than the real Muhammadu Buhari, whom Kanu said had been deceased since 2017 …

Dangote has donated a lot to Nigerian universities – FG

May 6, 2019 9:51 pm

The federal government has revealed that the N1.2billion hostel donated by the Aliko Dangote Foundation to Ahmadu Bello University Zaria is the single largest donation by an individual in the history of universities in Nigeria.

Executive Secretary of the National University Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the inauguration of the Aliko Dangote Hall, extended the federal government’s appreciation to the president of the Dangote group.

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NNPC: Nigeria daily oil production reaches 2.3mbpd – Baru

132 firms offer to buy 14 cargoes of Nigerian crude monthly

May 2, 2019 12:52 pm

132 local and international companies on Thursday offered to buy 14 cargoes of Nigerian crude oil monthly in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) 2019/2020 Direct Sale and Direct Purchase bid opening ceremony in Abuja.

The Group Managing Director (GMD) Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, who presided over the opening, said that the corporation would receive about 14 billion litres in a year as exchange for the crude.

“Well, we are looking about 14 cargoes a month kind of situation and about 14billion litres of in a year of products,” he said.

He said the occasion marked …

Alledged oil theft: Navy apprehends Ghanaian, 8 Beninoise

Nigerian Navy arrests 19 imposters in 3 Month

April 28, 2019 7:01 am

The Nigerian Navy (NN) on Sunday said its operatives had arrested a total of 19 imposters in the First Quarter of 2019.

Navy spokesman, Commodore Suleman Dahun,made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.

A breakdown of those arrested criminals given by the spokesman showed that 13 were arrested in Calabar/Ikang area; 5 in Yenogoa/Port Harcourt area and 1 in Lagos area.

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Nigerian pirates abduct six sailors from oil tanker

April 25, 2019 7:09 am

Pirates off Nigeria’s oil-rich south have stormed a small oil tanker, kidnapping six sailors, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said on Thursday, the latest in a string of such attacks.

The Apecus, a Palau-flagged petroleum products tanker of 3,100 deadweight tonnes, was attacked on Friday as it was anchored off Bonny Island, south of oil hub of Port Harcourt, according to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre.

“An anchored tanker was boarded by unauthorised persons who kidnapped six crew and escaped,” the piracy watchdog said, adding that the rest of the crew were reported to be safe. No details of their …

Nigerian filmmaker Ifeanyi Onyeabor dies shooting movie

April 19, 2019 8:13 pm

President of Directors’ Guild of Nigeria (DGN), Mr Fred Amata, has confirmed the death of Nollywood filmmaker, Ifeanyi Onyeabor, who died while shooting a movie in Jos.

Amata told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that Onyeabor’s death on Friday was shocking and unbelievable, and had left him pondering on what may have gone wrong.

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BREAKING: Nigerian footballer arrested for drugs in India

April 17, 2019 9:04 am

At a time when Nigerians are reportedly being executed in Saudi Arabia over drug deals, one would have thought that others seeking green pastures abroad will stay away from drugs to avoid fast lane to six feet.

It however looks like the ugly story is far from ending as a former footballer of Nigerian descent has reportedly been nabbed in India for drug deals.

The 40 year who has been identified simply as Ikenna was nabbed with 10 grams of crystal meth suspected to have been brought from Mumbai. This prompted a raid of his house located in Kardampuri in …

APC cannot redefine who qualifies as a Nigerian – Atiku

April 14, 2019 12:21 am

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, said he has been vindicated in his submission that he has verifiable and incontrovertible evidence to show that the last presidential elections were fraudulent, not credible and did not reflect the will of the Nigerian people.

He said the response of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) President Buhari, as well as the party is a vindication of the petition he filed at the Electoral Tribunal hearing the petition.

In a release signed by his spokesperson Mazi Paul Ibe, the former Vice …

APC to tribunal: Atiku not Nigerian by birth

April 12, 2019 11:02 pm

The All Progressives Congress (APC) told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja yesterday that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had no candidate in the last presidential election. Responding to the petition filed by Atiku and the PDP challenging the victory of the APC candidate Jubril (President Muhammadu Buhari) in the election, the ruling party contended that by fielding Atiku, “a non-Nigerian by birth”, the PDP cannot claim to have had a candidate in the last presidential election.

The party argued that by virtue of not being a Nigerian by birth, Atiku, a former Vice President, was not qualified to …

US willing to admit more Nigerian students

April 5, 2019 3:10 am

The U.S Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs has said the country was willing to admit more Nigerian students to its over 1000 community colleges.

Mr. Mathew Washburn, Programme Officer, EducationUSA, U.S. Department of State, said at the Foreign Press Centre International Reporting Tour of the U.S. Community Colleges and Workforce Development programme in Washington D.C.

The tour was organised by the Foreign Press Centre, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State to provide foreign journalists with information on opportunity available to foreign students in community college in U.S.

Washburn explained that Community colleges are two-year …

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