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Tragedy As Nigerian Passenger Slumps At MMIA Lagos

Tragedy As Nigerian Passenger Slumps At MMIA Lagos

October 13, 2019 9:37 am

A Nigerian passenger, Jude Oladapo, on Saturday slumped and died while undergoing boarding procedures at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

Spokesperson for the MMIA Police Command, Lagos, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed the development to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.

Alabi said that the 44-year-old passenger was about boarding an Air France flight when he suddenly slumped after receiving news that his wife had died.

According to him, the incident happened at about 5.30 p.m. and the deceased was confirmed dead by Dr Ajayi Olamide of the MMIA Medical Clinic.

Alabi said that the corpse …

Beating Breast Cancer; Nigerian Women Share Experiences

Beating Breast Cancer; Nigerian Women Share Experiences

October 13, 2019 4:08 am

As today marks the No Bra Day in commemoration of breast cancer awareness, three amazing Nigerian women have shared with us their fight with breast cancer.

Mrs. Kehinde Gbelee, Mrs. Ebunola Anozie and Ms. Della Ogunleye are the three most unlikely women to sit in the same room. Mrs. Kehinde is a bespectacled academic, cool, collected and cerebral she self corrects like an iPhone as she speaks, her length sentences peppered with “rather than”s and “perhaps.”

Mrs. Anozie is classically beautiful and eerily quiet, her eyes sweeping along the room like an analyst saving everything and saying nothing, her hard-won …

Nigerian Super Falcons Out Of July 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Nigerian Super Falcons Out Of July 2020 Tokyo Olympics

October 8, 2019 2:36 pm

The Super Falcons of Nigeria extended their non-appearance at the Olympic Games soccer event for the third time after crashing out to visiting Côte d’Ivoire in the second leg qualifying match played at Agege Stadium in Lagos yesterday.

On the back of impressive goalless first-leg draw in Abidjan, the teams played out a 1-1 draw in Lagos to see Christopher Danjuma’s side bow out of the qualifiers at the same stage as four years ago.

The visitors set the tone of what is to come with an early charge on their host and as early as the fourth minute they …

Meet The Nigerian Neurosurgeon Who Does Free Operations

Meet The Nigerian Neurosurgeon Who Does Free Operations

October 4, 2019 4:54 am

Neurosurgeons are known as skilled operators. But straddling surgeries across two continents? That’s a different skill entirely.

Dr. Olawale Sulaiman, 41, is a professional neurosurgeon and spinal surgery and chairman for the neurosurgery department and back and spine center at the Ochsner Neuroscience Institute in New Orleans. He lives in Louisiana, but splits his time between the US and Nigeria, spending up to 12 days each month providing healthcare in the country of his birth — sometimes for free.
Born in Lagos Island, Lagos, Sulaiman says his motivation comes from growing up in a relatively poor region.
“I am one
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Isaac Promise, Former Nigerian Football Captain, Is Dead

Isaac Promise, Former Nigerian Football Captain, Is Dead

October 3, 2019 5:12 pm

Nigerian international football star, and a former captain of the national team, Isaac Promise is dead. His death was announced by his US football club, Austin Bold FC.

The 31-year-old was said to have died on Wednesday, October 2, with no specific cause of death stated by the club.

A post on the club’s official website by the club’s Chairman, Bobby Epstein, said, “The greatest loss a team can suffer is not on the scoreboard, it’s the death of a fellow teammate.

“It’s with shock and grief that we acknowledge the sudden death of Promise Isaac.

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3 Out Of 10 Nigerian Men Are Not The Fathers Of Their Kids

3 Out Of 10 Nigerian Men Are Not The Fathers Of Their Kids

October 3, 2019 12:43 pm

A DNA expert has shared some knowledgeable findings as it relates to the paternity of children, especially in Nigeria. According to him, it is high time people took this DNA testing seriously, as an alarming 3 out of every 10 Nigerian men are not the true and biological fathers of their children.

Is paternity testing becoming an issue in Nigeria?

We have seen that there is serious need for it because in many homes things are happening that are scary both to the lives of children and their parents. And for the general statistics that are now available, it …

Nigerian Man Died Of Immigration Hunger Strike - Japan

Nigerian Man Died Of Immigration Hunger Strike – Japan

October 1, 2019 11:52 am

Japanese immigration authorities said Tuesday a Nigerian man who died in detention in June starved to death while on hunger strike, in the first officially acknowledged case of its kind.

“An autopsy has found the man died of starvation,” an official at the Immigration Services Agency told AFP.

The man in his forties, whose name has been withheld, died on June 24 after falling unconscious at Omura Immigration Center and being taken to a hospital in southern Japan.

He had been on a hunger strike for at least three weeks to protest being detained by immigration authorities for over three …

Minister tasks Nigerian professors to be innovative

Minister tasks Nigerian professors to be innovative

September 26, 2019 12:01 am

The Minister of State for Education, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has tasked Nigerian professors to be innovative in their fields of endeavour to assist the Federal Government achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target of 2030.

Nwajiuba gave the task in Abuja at the opening of 1st International Conference of the Faculty of Education, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

He noted that the 21st century was experiencing revolution in many areas with increased recognition of technology and as such the need for Nigerian professors to key into the opportunity to broaden the scope of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that

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Obi advises Nigerian varsities to look inwards

Obi advises Nigerian varsities to look inwards

September 22, 2019 11:21 am

The Vice-Presidential candidates of the PDP, Mr. Peter Obi has advised Nigerian universities to look inwards for the development of their various schools. Obi said this during his visit to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

Sharing managerial experiences with the some principal officers of the University of Nsukka led by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Charles Igwe and that of Awka led by Prof, Charles Esimone, Obi  emphasized the need to work with dedicated men who understand that leadership is about service and embracing values that would encourage scholarship.

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Nigerian Governors reject calls to scrap security votes

Nigerian Governors reject calls to scrap security votes

September 12, 2019 12:38 am

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) Wednesday kicked against calls for the removal of security votes, insisting that doing so would be inimical to development.

NGF Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said in Abuja that the abolition of security votes as being advocated by many in the country would breed chaos in the polity instead of curbing corruption as is being widely believed.

He said there was no development without security.

The position of the governors came just as Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, advocated parameters …

The incompetence of the Nigerian Security Chiefs

The incompetence of the Nigerian Security Chiefs

September 10, 2019 4:04 am

By MarkAnthony Nze

On countless times, the Nigerian military leadership under the All Progressives Congress (APC) thus far has clearly shown that it is collectively a body of  incompetent fellows who were in the first instance appointed Generals, given the exalted positions based on the quota system of Nigeria’s government appointment or nepotism, and not particularly on merit.

The maladministration of APC which has brought untold hardship to the masses of Nigeria has further wrecked the security structure of the country with the sort of incompetent military leadership it parades, who ostensibly are the pride of the country.

Basically, Nigeria …

Nigerian troops lose ₦15 million to Boko Haram in ambush

Nigerian troops lose ₦15 million to Boko Haram in ambush

September 9, 2019 10:26 am
Boko Haram insurgents on Friday ambushed Nigerian troops in Damaturu, Yobe State and stole fifteen million naira and a cache of weapons, military sources told The Guardian.

A gun truck was also taken away by the insurgents.

The troops, Super Camp 3 and the 231 Battalion, came under the attack around Azare-Kamuya axis in the southeastern state.

The terrorist group allegedly fled after an immediate reinforcement from the 27 Task Force Brigade in Damaturu.

The sum of #15,492,000 was meant for the troop’s ration cash allowance on the frontlines, a source said.

Although it is unclear which faction the terrorist

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