On Monday, July 15, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, attributed approximately 80 percent of the current insecurity in Nigeria’s North Western region to the activities of illegal miners. Speaking at the start of an investigative hearing on illegal mining in the solid minerals sector, the …
Read More »Tax from manufacturers in Nigeria drops by more than 70 percent
Tax revenue from manufacturers in the country dropped sharply by 70.24 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to N43.2 billion in the first quarter of 2024 (Q1’24), down from N145.1 billion in the previous quarter (Q4’23). This data is from the Company Income Tax (CIT) Q1 2024 report by the National Bureau …
Read More »Electricity tariff to go up by 300 percent
The federal government has reportedly approved power companies’ move to raise electricity prices to N200 ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour from N68 for urban consumers this month. Bloomberg news agency reported that these customers represent 15% of the population that the government says consume 40% of the nation’s electricity. The …
Read More »Matthew Perry’s beauty queen friend who was pictured with him last, says he was ‘100 percent sober’ and seemed ‘extremely positive’ before his death at 54
Matthew Perry’s beauty queen friend has said the star was ‘100 per cent’ sober before his tragic death at the age 54 as she hit back at speculation over his death. Matthew was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Pacific Palisades home on Saturday, October 28. He had …
Read More »50 percent of graduate doctors have left Nigeria ? Health Professor
A health expert who turned up with other experts in public health and community medicine for a medical event, has lamented the helplessness faced by medical practitioners across the country. President of the faculty of public health and community medicine, national postgraduate medical college of Nigeria, Professor Akinsanya Osibogun, …
Read More »I?m 110 Percent Sure That Female Lawyer, Adaobi?s Child Is Not the For My Husband; She?s A Gold Digger – Biola Ayeni, Wife of Nigerian Businessman Tunde Ayeni Speaks
– We Are Happily Married In a momentous twist of fate, a sacred bond spanning three decades has taken center stage, as Abiola Ayeni, the wife of a Nigerian business titan and former chairperson of the bygone Skye Bank, Tunde Ayeni, grants a revelation-laden interview—an explosive revelation that …
Read More »77 percent of Nigerian women use bleaching creams – NAFDAC DG says the use of skin bleaching creams has become a national health emergency in Nigeria
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has said that prevalent use of skin bleaching creams in Nigeria has become a national health emergency. The director-general of NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye, stated this at the Media Sensitization Workshop on Dangers of Bleaching Creams and Regulatory Controls, …
Read More »2023 Election: Security in Borno has improved tremendously by over 90 percent – Zulum
Governor Babagana Zulum has said that Borno state is 90% safe for elections to take place. Fielding questions from reporters at the presidential villa in Abuja on Friday, January 6, Zulum said the security situation in Borno has greatly improved. He further disclosed that his administration is working to rehabilitate and resettle …
Read More »The Digital Divide: Africa the Least Connected with 60 percent of the Population Offline
by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, December 12, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Dec 12 (IPS) – The digital divide – between the world’s rich and poor nations —remains staggeringly wide. For over 2.7 billion people, many of them living in developing and least developed countries (LDCs), meaningful connectivity remains …
Read More »Cardi B opens up that she got a nose job and 95 percent of her butt shots removed as she warns young fans not to get butt shots
Cardi B opened up to her followers about her latest surgical procedures in a new Instagram Live video. The rapper disclosed that she went for another round of surgery back in August. She said the procedure was to get her butt shots removed and she says it was …
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