Month: August 2022

Dinka Ethnic Group: Tales of World’s Tallest Tribe

Ganiyu Amodu

Miracle of the men of heights, African tribe known to have some of the tallest people in the world. Welcome to South Sudan   The tribe referred to as the “Tribe of Basketball” The Dinka tribe of South Sudan is known to have some of the tallest people in Africa and possibly the world. The Dinka Tribe The Dinka tribe is a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan who resides along the Nile from Jonglei to the Abyei region of the Ngok Dinka in South Sudan. They originate from…

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Musk Sends Fresh Letter To Scrap Twitter Deal After Whistleblower Claims

Ganiyu Amodu

Elon Musk has sent an additional letter of deal termination to Twitter Inc after the world’s richest person subpoenaed a whistleblower seeking documents on how the social media company measures spam accounts. Musk walked away from a $44-billion offer for Twitter in July saying the company misled him and regulators about the true number of spam or bot accounts on the microblogging platform. READ ALSO: NCDMB Emerges Best MDA In Ease of Doing Business Emirates Makes U-Turn On Flights Suspension In Nigeria How Kwara State Varsity Student-Lovers Were Found Dead,…

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NCDMB Emerges Best MDA In Ease of Doing Business

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has been adjudged as the best among all Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the country in the latest Executive Order (EO1) performance ranking for Ease of Doing Business from January to June 2022. The report is compiled by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), under the office of the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria. NCDMB came tops with 81.48 percent, according to the report, released officially on Tuesday in Abuja. PEBEC was established in 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari to address…

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Emirates Makes U-Turn On Flights Suspension In Nigeria

Ganiyu Amodu

United Arab Emirates, UAE, flag carrier operating in Nigeria, Emirates Airlines has announced the reinstatement of its flight operations to Nigeria. The airlines had earlier announced suspension of flight operations into the country from September 1, 2022, following its inability to repatriate over $85 million of its tickets sale. But, in response to the development, the Federal Government through the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, released part of the outstanding ticket sales fund. READ ALSO: We Are Quitting Nigeria Sept 1 and Here is The Reason – Emirates How Kwara…

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How Kwara State Varsity Student-Lovers Were Found Dead, Corpses Naked

Ganiyu Amodu

Two 200 level students of the Kwara State University, Malete, Kwara State, Tobiloba Daniel and Arewa Abayomi, have been found dead in their room in a hostel outside the premises of the institution. PUNCH Metro gathered that Daniel and Abayomi were studying for the ongoing examination in the institution when they decided to go to the hostel to continue preparations for their exams the following day. Things, however, took another turn when their colleagues observed that the duo didn’t sit their exams the next day and were not seen on…

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$23million Abacha Loot Should Address Our Demands – ASUU President

Ganiyu Amodu

National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has said the $23million looted fund by the late General Sani Abacha to be returned by the United States government should be used to meet the union’s demands. Osodeke said this during Channels Television Politics Today, on Tuesday while speaking about the six-month-old strike embarked on by the union. The federal government and the US signed a deal last week to return the funds looted by the late dictator. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Soviet Union Last Surviving Leader,…

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BREAKING: Soviet Union Last Surviving Leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, is Dead

Aoko Benjamin

Serious and long illness; How the last of the surviving cold war leader and trouble shooter died at 91 The last leader of the Soviet Union and the lsst surviving leader of the cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev, is dead. Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday that he died in Moscow at the age of 91 years. “Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and long illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said, quoted by the Interfax, TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies. READ ALSO: Nigeria’s N4.5trn Annual…

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Justify Trust 22,000 Lawyers Reposed in You – Osogbo NBA To Maikyahu

Ganiyu Amodu

The Osogbo branch of Nigeran Bar Association has charged the newly sworn -in President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Yakubu Maikyau SAN, to roll up his sleeve and hit ground running in discharging his electoral promises to the bar so as to justify the trust invested in him by over twenty -two thousands members of the Association who elected him as the president. This charge was made in a congratulatory message to the new President by NBA Osogbo branch, released in Osogbo yesterday and signed by the Chairman and Publicity…

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Dangote Mulls 30,000 Youths Employment, End To Forex Crisis

Abibat Babalola

The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has resolved to employ over 30,000 youths and significantly reduce the importation of sugar into the country by 40 per cent, thereby saving the country’s scarce foreign exchange. Dangote disclosed recently to newsmen that Dangote Group is embarking on Phase II of its Sugar project, which will then cover over 100,000ha to make the sugar plant the largest in Africa. According to him, the integrated sugar complex to be located in Tunga, Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, comprises 60,000ha sugar plantation…

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Nigeria’s N4.5trn Annual Petrol Importation’ll End by 2023 – NNPC

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC Ltd.) has said the importation of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, into the country will be stopped by mid-2023. Platforms Africa reports that Nigeria spent a total of N4.56 trillion on the importation of Prwmium Motor Spirit (petrol) in 2021 about 128% higher than the N2 trillion spent on fuel importation in 2020. The Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd., Mele Kyari, disclosed this at the State House Ministerial Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team in Abuja on Tuesday. A…

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