Aiyetoro Community • Inhabitants in disarray, say over 10 kilometres already lost to ocean • We’ve been abandoned by govt, oil firms, dwellers say • It’s a huge project, we cannot handle it alone – Ondo govt Located on the frontlines of climate change and exploration activities of oil firms, Ayetoro, a coastal community in […]
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Fraudsters are exploiting the desperation of prospective homeowners and tenants to have roofs over their heads and secure cheaper accommodations to defraud victims. With an estimated N20 trillion yearly contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a 200 million population, and a housing demand-supply shortfall put at over 20 million units, Nigeria’s property market is […]
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• Remain indoors, embassy warns students • U.S., UK, Germany, France diplomats evacuated • Obi expresses worry over trapped Nigerians President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, yesterday, disclosed that the presidency is deeply worried over thousands of Nigerian citizens trapped in troubled Sudan owing to the dangers associated with […]
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eSIM, contactless payments may cut Nigeria’s SIM, ATM cards production by 60% Local capacity production stands at 100m Telecoms operators import SIM cards at $3 each NATCOMS wants innovation to remain optional, raises cyber concerns Technology billed to dictate market needs in five years Banks to turn eSIM as eWallet platform […]
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A draconian bill being prepared by the House of Representatives seeking to prevent newly qualified Nigerian doctors from seeking employment abroad immediately after graduation is the wrong response by unimaginative lawmakers to a national crisis. Responding belatedly to the long-running exodus of medical doctors and other health professionals seeking greener pastures, legislators have rammed the […]
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Ahead of April 25, 2023, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed candidates sitting for the examination to proceed to print their notification slips from Thursday, 20th to 24th, April. The Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, announced this in a statement on Friday in […]
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Khartoum International Airport: An aerial view of black smoke rising above the Khartoum International Airport amid ongoing battles between the forces of two rival generals. Photo: AFP The number of Nigerian students who have indicated a willingness to return to the country from war-torn Sudan has risen to 1,700, but the Federal Government may have […]
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Twelve days to the commencement of the national population and housing census, uncertainties have continued to trail the planned headcount and there are indications that it may be shifted due to funding and other logistic challenges. It was gathered on Friday that the National Population Commission might again postpone the census as it struggled to […]
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No fewer than five former governors are in the race for the Senate Presidency. They include former Anambra State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu (APC, Abia North); former governor of Akwa Ibom, Godswill Akpabio (APC, Akwa Ibom North-West); former Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi (APC, Ebonyi South); for Edo governor, Adams Oshiomhole (Edo North), and former […]
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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has urged the Muslim faithful in the state not to jettison the virtues of love and sacrifice, which the month of Ramadan teaches. The Governor while felicitating Muslims on the celebration of the 2023 Eid-ul-Fitri, charged them to continue to live with love, sacrifice, and piety as they did throughout […]
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