Day: September 12, 2020

EXPENSIVE SHIT! Nigeria’s Delta Education College Provost builds two Toilets with N36m – Report

Precious Ibekwe

The Nigeria’s Delta State based Warri College of Education has allegedly constructed two toilets with N36 million. Sahara Reporters, which reported this, claimed that the provost used N36m to build two toilets in the institution funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. “Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a Senior Staff reported that the provost concluded everything with the contractors before going into the bidding process. Warri College of Education is synonymous with corruption and other fraudulent practices’the report by Sahara Reporters read. “But even if you raise the alarm,…

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11 Banks in trouble as EFCC probes link with Dubai-bound Nigerian caught with 2,886 ATM cards

Precious Ibekwe

EFCC reveals massive customers accounts’ stealing, sale for N10,000 each Says Scan machine at the Lagos Airport had revealed Man caught with 2,886 ATM Cards was carrying packs of noodles Eleven commercial banks in Nigeria are in trouble as country’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) begins the probe of their links with Dubai-bound Nigerian caught with 2,886 ATM cards. The Commission has also revealed massive bank customers accounts’ stealing and sale for N10,000 each going on in banks as a new strategy to launder money abroad. The…

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Despite COVID-19, We avert Food Crisis, Nigeria’s Buhari rates self high on Food Security

Micheal Olatunji

  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the level of preparedness of nations to shocks of food security, explaining that his Government’s wisdom in promoting self-sufficiency over the years helped significantly in averting a food crisis. Speaking at the National Food Security Council meeting held at the State House, President Buhari noted that there was need for more effort to increase food production and self-sufficiency, assuring that the Federal Government will continue to promote policies that favour investments in the agricultural sector. “The coronavirus pandemic…

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Funny, Mixed Reactions Trail Ghana’s BBNaija version, ‘Big Brethren Ghana’

Aoko Benjamin

Ghanaians are excited following the official launching of Big Brethren Ghana (BBG), which is reportedly the country’s version of Big Brother. However, several photos from the reality TV show which were posted on Twitter attracted mixed reactions as some of the housemates were spotted sleeping in an overcrowded and visibly unkempt room. Nigerians have since trolled Ghanaian for duplicating Big Brother Naija (BBN) with a substandard version of the reality show. Despite some Ghanaians being excited over the launching, others expressed their anger against organizers of the show for ‘disgracing…

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It’s Now Law! Rapists will be Castrated in Nigeria’s Kaduna State + Critical Questions Raised

Aliyu Aliyu

  It has become law in the Nigeria’s Kaduna state, Rapists will henceforth be castrated. The State House of Assembly has approved castration as punishment for those convicted of rape, raising crirical question on what happens if the convict is a female? This, according to checks by Platforms Africa, is a detour from the stand earlier taken by the country’s National Assembly, which threw away such a bill based on contradiction on commensurate punishment for a woman convicted of rape. The stand taken by Kaduna legislators follows the passage of…

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