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AfDB, IsDB, IFAD partner FG to boost economy with special agro-industrial zone
*Kano, Imo, Kaduna, Cross River, Kwara, Oyo, Ogun & FCT benefit in first phase *VP receives Islamic Development Bank President at Presidential Villa With the launch of the Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) programme, Nigeria can, in less than a decade, banish food insecurity, while radically improving export earnings from agriculture, creating millions of lucrative agro-industrial jobs and opportunities for…
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St. Louis high school shooting leaves three dead, including suspect
A 19-year-old gunman opened fire at a high school in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday, killing two people and injuring seven others before officers fatally shot the suspect, the city’s police commissioner said. No motive for the gun violence was immediately apparent, but Police Commissioner Mike Sack told an early evening news conference the assailant may have suffered from mental…
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PHOTO NEWS: Buhari participates at opening ceremony of the First World Bio summit
President Muhammadu Buhari participated at the opening ceremony of the ongoing World Bio Summit in Seoul, South Korea where he delivered a goodwill message. At summit President Buhari interacted with President Yoon Suk-Yeol of South Korea and other participants during the opening session.
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Give me plan to combat floods in 90 days, Buhari orders ministers
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Water Resources to lead and coordinate with the Ministries of Environment and Transportation as well as state governments to develop a Comprehensive Plan of Action for Preventing Flood Disaster in Nigeria.The President’s directive, which was conveyed to the minister in a letter signed by his Chief of Staff, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, said…
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Outspoken Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif killed in Kenya
A prominent Pakistani investigative journalist critical of the country’s powerful military has been killed in Kenya nearly two months after he left Pakistan. “I lost friend, husband and my favourite journalist today, as per police he was shot in Kenya,” Javeria Siddique tweeted about her husband Arshad Sharif’s death on Sunday night. The 49-year-old journalist fled the country in August…
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Bolanle Austen-Peters wins MIT’s prestigious Foundry Fellowship
Lawyer turned film and theatre director, Bolanle Austen-Peters, has been selected for a prestigious fellowship programme of the Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship of the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA.Mrs. Austen-Peters who is also the Founder & CEO of educational and recreational organisation, Terra Kulture, will join 11 other fellows for the Legatum Foundry Fellowship, which is…
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Court orders final forfeiture of Diezani’s Abuja homes, cars
Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday, ordered the final forfeiture of two Abuja properties and two luxury cars belonging to a former minister of petroleum resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the Federal Government. The two properties, located at Plot 1854 Mohammed Mahashir Street, and No. 6, Aso Drive, in the highbrow Asokoro and Maitama Districts…
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Apostle Suleman: The apple of God’s eyes, By Bamidele Johnson
You just knew Apostle Johnson Suleman was going to come bigging up his God credentials once assassins’ bullets, mercifully, did not find accommodation in his prominent bald pate or eye socket. He would not be Suleman if he did not. His escape had nothing to do with the bullet-proof vehicle he and his family were travelling in. It had all…
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Ukraine war: Russian spy chief blames West for nuclear tension
Western leaders have expressed concern about the scale of nuclear sabre-rattling over Ukraine by senior Russian officials, including President Putin, especially after February’s invasion. How does Moscow react to charges it is engaging in such rhetoric and threats? I asked one of Russia’s most powerful officials, Sergei Naryshkin, head of the SVR Foreign Intelligence Service, to respond to international criticism.…
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Artful dodgers, By Odi Ikpeazu
“The public should try to make itself artistic.”Oscar Wilde The musical situation in Nigeria is quite a curious one. First of all, it is probably safe to say that that the majority of the public does not see much correlation between the state of the arts and that of the nation. This is very worrying but since most people do…
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