IN THE NEWS…
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South-east Towns Obey Sit-at-home Order to Mark Biafra @ 50
Most schools and businesses in south-eastern parts of Nigeria Tuesday complied to an order by separatist groups IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra)...
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Kathleen Carroll Elected CPJ’s Board Chair
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent, non-profit organization that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide, has announced that Kathleen Carroll...
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Passed in the Senate: Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) 2017
After more than 17 years, the first part of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has been passed by the Nigerian Senate. Entitled...
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Demolition of Breeze FM 99.9 Radio’s Office and Equipment
Nigerian authorities’ demolition of the office of radio Breeze 99.9 FM is a shocking affront to press freedom, the Committee to Protect...
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Magu Leads Walk Against Corruption in Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday May 23, 2017, organized an anti-corruption walk in Abuja to further galvanize the...
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716The Trouble with Nigeria, by Atiku
Former vice-president of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar has identified the shift from regional government to a 36-state structure as one of the reasons...
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TetFund Accountant, 2 Others Arraigned over N623m Contract Scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday arraigned the trio of Auwal Ibrahim, principal accountant, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Abuja; Wali...
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Zamfara UBEC Chairman Convicted for Graft
Murtala Adamu, executive chairman, Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board, was on Friday, May 12, convicted and sentenced to six months in...
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854Unprecedented Cyber-attack Affects 100 Countries
World War III has begun. And it is being fought in cyberspace. A cyber-security expert calls it “the biggest ransomware outbreak in...
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Ebola Is Back
The disease that killed more than 11,000 people between 2014 and 2015 mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia is back. The...