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Sokoto State grants amnesty to 8,000 ghost workers if they come clean by December 9
SOKOTO State government has granted an amnesty to about 8,000 suspected ghost workers and those collecting abnormal salaries under its payroll if they come clean and admit their offences between now and December 9. Like many on...
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Can someone please explain to me why Nigeria is not the world's largest manufacturer of transistor radios
By Ayo Akinfe Is it just me but growing up, every Hausa and Fulani man I knew had a transistor radio. Now, there are 61m Hausas in Nigeria and 15m Fulanis across the country, making a combined total of 76m. Is there any larger market...
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Anioma People’s Declaration 2020
By Ayo Akinfe (1) We, the Anioma people declare that if granted our state in 2020, we shall generate enough electricity to power the whole of Nigeria by 2030. We shall build hydro-electric power plants at Uguozala, Ebu, Illah, Asaba, Onitsha,...
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Massob accuses Nigerian government of being behind Allen Onyema's travails
IGBO secessionist group the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) has accused Nigeria's federal government of being behind the recent travails of Air Peace chairman Allen Onyema who has been declared wanted in the US...
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Would it not have been lovely if the Nigerian Governors Forum agreed on this housing policy at its recent meeting in Abuja?
By Ayo Akinfe (1) Given that there are 200m Nigerians out there with about 50% of them being 18 and over, we should have a plan to build 40m housing units over the next 20 years (2) Of these 40m units, the federal government will...
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Allen Onyema denies US money laundering charges saying he is ready to appear in court
AIR Peace chairman Allen Onyema has denied US fraud allegations against him indicting him for money laundering claiming that all transfers he made to the US were done through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Yesterday, the US...
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Is there any reason why we cannot make Nigeria planet earth’s new Noah’s Ark, making her the world’s largest animal sanctuary to protect endangered species
By Ayo Akinfe (1) Noah is the world’s first known animal conservationist. Bless the great man’s soul for his attempts to preserve as many animal species as possible. Obviously, some species did not survive his bold initiative but why should...
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Nigeria's GDP grows by 2.8% during the thirds quarter of this year as oil output reaches 2m barrels
NIGERIA's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by a meagre 2.28% during the third quarter of 2019 when compared with last year according to figures just released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In its latest quarterly GDP...
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