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  Classrooms at the school where gunmen kidnapped dozens of students and staffs in Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria  Gunmen in Nigeria have released 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school last week in the north-central state of Niger, the state’s governor said. Their release comes just a day after a separate raid on a school in Nigeria’s Zamfara state where gunmen seized more than 300 girls. Kidnappings for ransom by armed groups, many of whom carry guns and ride motorcycles, are common across many northern Nigerian states. Last week, 27 students, three staff and 12 members of their families were abducted by an armed gang who stormed the Government Science secondary school in the Kagara district of Niger state at around 2am local time, overwhelming the school’s security detail. One boy was killed during the raid. “The Abducted Students, Staff and Relatives of Government Science Collage Kagara have regained their freedom and have been received b...

        Niger State Governor Abubakar Bello met with freed Kagara abduction victims on February 27, 2021. The Governor said his administration is working on a way to prevent similar occurrences in the future. “Yes, we have rescued them but we still have a lot of work ahead of us,” he said. “Going forward, we are putting a system in place to look at the causes of these events. “In the next few days, in the course of my conversation with major stakeholders, I hope we will find a solution to this dastardly act.” Presidency Reacts See Video below: https://youtu.be/iE4N6A50bA8 Meanwhile, the Presidency has reacted to the news of the Kagara victims’ release. President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement issued on Saturday by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, welcomed the students’ release, commending the nation’s security and intelligence agencies and the government of Niger State for their responses in securing the release. “We are happy they have been released,” Buhari said while...

Frank in a statement Thursday in Abuja, also called on other traditional rulers and religious leaders to emulate the Emir – who is known to speak the truth even at his own peril – by speaking out to save the country from imminent collapse. It could be recalled that Emir Sanusi – a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised the alarm that the country is heading towards a catastrophic bankruptcy as a result of the poor and indolent management of the economy by the General Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. He also recalled that the former Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and ex-Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, had issued a similar warning about a month ago when he declared that Nigeria is heading towards another recession. He stated that the failure of Buhari to implement a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers – six months after signing the bill into law – as well as the incapacity of may state governments to pay salaries are cle...

My monthly salary is N750,000 New Senate President, Ahmed Lawan reveals Senate president Ahmed Lawan has said his monthly salary is N750,000 and that there was nothing like jumbo salary for National Assembly members as being speculated in the media. Lawan made the disclosure, when members of the Senators’ Forum paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja on Tuesday. While further disregarding the jumbo pay issue, he revealed that his monthly salary as a lawmaker and tha t of his colleagues was N750,000.“What I want to emphasize here is that I never believed that that there is anything called Jombo pay to the national assembly. The National Assembly members both the Senate and the House receive what is their salaries and I receive N750,000 as my salary. But I need to function as a senator, my office needs to be properly funded,” he said.He promised that the National Assembly was going to be open to the general public in the conduct of its legislative activities...

LASG announces new dates for 2019/2020 entrance examination into public schools The Lagos State Ministry of Education has announced new dates for the 2019/2020 Entrance Examinations into the State Model Colleges and Upgraded Schools, the Placement Test into JSS 1 in all Public Secondary Schools across the State and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). According to a release by the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Olatokunboh Adel eye, the examinations are aimed at testing the applicants’ academic capabilities for their choice of classes in the State-owned Schools. She stated that the new dates for the examinations are as follows: BECE: Monday 15th -Tuesday, 23rd July 2019; Computer-Based Screening Test (CBT) is scheduled for Monday 15th - Friday, 19th July 2019, while the Paper Pencil Test (PPT) will hold on Saturday, 20th July 2019. The Placement Test is slated for Saturday, 27th July, 2019. Speaking further on the con...

The “Mugabe” of VGC. If you live in VGC you may have come across his convoy, a Hilux filled with mean looking policemen in the front and another Hilux full of p olice behind. His favorite car is a Mercedes G63 Brabus which has no registration number beyond the word “Brabus” on it (it’s not the personalized shit o, dude is just too big to register his car), squeezed between the Hiluxes and other luxury cars. You might be mistaken to think to think it’s President Buhari’s convoy as you are not allowed to overtake, those who have made that mistake nearly never lived to tell the story. The occupant is no president, no governor, not the Senate President not even an LG Chairman but an ordinary citizen called JULIAN OSULA (the bearded guy in the picture below). Julian boasts about his power, and his police convoy will convince any doubter. He claims to be “very close” to Patience Jonathan and that even if The Jonathan’s are out of power his influence can never w...

Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt has reportedly agreed personal terms with Juventus as his move to Serie A edges ever closer. The Dutch starlet has attracted interest from the likes of Barcelona, Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain but now looks set to join Juventus after finalising personal terms worth £10.75million a season over five years. Reports in Italy claim Juve have yet to agree a fee with Ajax for De Ligt, but that his proposed five-year contract is set to include a release clause worth around £135m. According to Goal, his move will be finalised in the coming days, with the fee expected to be at least £62m. De Ligt has developed into one of the most sought-after players in Europe after a stunning breakout season in which he led a young Ajax side to within moments of the Champions League final. Barcelona had been touted as a possible destination for the defender, whose Ajax and Holland team-mate Frenkie de Jong has already moved to the Nou Camp. Manchester United were...

CCTV footage shows the row in a train carriage which led to a father being stabbed to death and dying in front of his 14-year-old son. Lee Pomeroy, 51, was knifed to death by Darren Pencille just minutes after he and his son boarded a train from Guildford, Surrey, to London Waterloo in January. Pencille insists he was defending himself. The murder trial today saw footage of Mr Pomeroy and his teenage boy boarding the train before Pencille brushes past them, sparking a row which would lead to the attack. Pencille is seen jabbing his finger towards the father and son. The court has heard he accused them of blocking the aisle. Mr Pomeroy then followed Pencille into another carriage, where the fatal blows were struck. Some of Mr Pomeroy's family left the public gallery of the Old Bailey as the disturbing footage was shown. His wife, Svetlana, stayed in court and wept as the CCTV was played. The court was also shown a video of Mr Pomoroy's son giving a statement to the police...

Head Coach of the U-20 Women National Team, Chris Danjuma, has dispelled reports claiming that players and officials of his team were not paid their entitlements before and during the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup finals in France. Danjuma led the Falconets to a quarter-finals berth at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in France “I see this as a silly, mischievous story. I have spoken to my assistants and backroom staff and they all denied talking to the reporter,” Danjuma said in a media statement released by the media department of the Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday. “We were paid our entitlements for the camping in Austria and at the FIFA World Cup, and no money was lost as claimed in the story.” “From the very first day I saw the reporter in our camp prior to our departure to the final training camp in Austria, I observed he was a very funny figure just looking for negative stuff to report. “It is unfortunate that some persons commit their lives to trying to cause m...

While the ongoing 2016 Mobile World Congress , MWC, is in full swing in Barcelona, Spain, the GSMA yesterday announced that the number of active mobile money accounts worldwide now exceeded 130 million, with more than 100 million new registered users added in 2015. According to the latest report on the state of financial services worldwide, there were 1 billion mobile money transactions in December 2015 at around 33 million per day which is more than double the amount PayPal processed globally. With 411 million registered mobile money users during the time in question, according the GSMA report, there were at least 19 countries with more mobile oney accounts than bank accounts According the report, with 30 services with more than 1 million active users, only 5 of those services actually have more than 5 million active users. The report also added that there were 271 active services in 93 countries. The figure the report said is more than the number of officially recog...

Google announced Wednesday it would provide 27 million euros ($29.7 million) to 128 news organisations in Europe as part of its “Digital News Initiative.” Agence France-Presse is one of the organisations selected, for its platform of interactive graphics developed for users of AFP web and mobile media formats around the world. Google chief executive Sundar Pichai announced the latest funding in a speech in Paris. Google, which has been reorganised as a unit of the holding company Alphabet, had previously announced it was setting aside 150 million euros to help European news outfits in new projects that help them adapt to the digital landscape. “We are committed to ongoing discussion between the tech and news sectors,” Pichai said in his remarks at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po. “To promote innovation in digital journalism. And play our part in building a more sustainable news ecosystem.” The funds offered by Google aim to “stimul...

There are a lot of commonly held beliefs out there about how you should and shouldn’t charge the batteries in your smartphone. You know the ones I’m talking about: Don’t keep your phone plugged in all night. You need to “train” your battery to hold a charge. Well, it turns out that a lot of those tips are pure hooey. To help you sort the facts from the fiction, here’s the truth about five of the most prevalent myths about smartphone batteries. Don’t say we’ve never done anything for you. 1. Keeping your phone plugged in damages its battery You’ve certainly heard this one before: Keeping your phone plugged in all night when you go to sleep will supposedly overwhelm your handset’s battery, damaging it and keeping it from being able to hold a charge. The truth of the matter, however, is the exact opposite. Your smartphone is intelligent enough to recognize when its battery is fully charged and, when it does, will stop pulling in power. In fact, most of today’s phones are so sma...

A study by research outfit, CIES Football Observatory, has revealed that Nigeria is the fifth highest exporter of football talents in the world and the biggest in Africa. The report, the eight in the CIES Football Observatory’s monthly report, which focuses on international migration in football, reveals that Nigeria’s figure of 596 players scattered in leagues across the world, is only lower to biggest exporter, Brazil (1,784), Argentina (929), France (758) and Serbia (607). The analysis includes a record number of 6,135 clubs and 458 leagues of 183 countries worldwide. While Brazil is the most represented origin among foreigners both in Europe (1,137 players) and in Asia (437 players), Argentina is the main exporting country at Latin American level (511 players compared to only 124 Brazilians). The CIES Football Observatory report entitled “Exporting countries in world football” provide an overview of migration of footballer’s around the world. It said the dataset was not pr...

To boost Africa’s $110b inter-trade market  NIGERIA stands to earn about $50 billion from her abundant solid minerals if the necessary framework is put in place to harness the resources. Indeed, the nation has been estimated to possess over 400 solid minerals, 40 of them available in commercial quantities, though only 13 of these are being exploited at present. This is believed to have dragged down the sector’s contribution to the national economy to a paltry 0.3 per cent and generating about $1.5 billion into the country’s coffers. A document obtained from Solid Mines Limited, showed that the sector could add as much as $50 billion to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by climbing from 0.3 per cent to 10 per cent growth in the next three to five years, if the necessary investment is made. Besides, optimal utilisation of the solid minerals could also create over one million direct and indirect jobs within Nigeria and far increase Africa’s inter-trade activity, which...

Aaron Rodgers has been downright masterful with his pre-snap actions and  ability to score the Packers free plays  by manipulating the snap count. That doesn't mean he's always calling out complicated audibles to fool people, however. Sometimes he just tells everyone exactly where the play is going.  Rodgers called an audible which led to one of the Green Bay lineman asking "which way." With time running out on the play clock, Rodgers didn't have time to spare so he just yelled out "right!" The Packers did indeed run right and it's almost as if the Chiefs knew exactly what direction the play was going since they stopped it for a 2-yard loss. Weird. Knowing Rodgers, this is probably all part of some long con. Next time he's going to yell "left!" but the Packers will run right. Either that or he's just trying to make the playing level a little more equal since his right arm is essentially an unfair advantage.

Edward Snowden worries we're not hearing aliens' messages.  HBO/Screenshot by CNET We have many assumptions about extraterrestrials. We assume that, in some way, they'll understand how to communicate with us. We assume they may well be more advanced than us. We assume they have spaceships and weapons that can zap us into granular matter with just a twitch of their noses.  What if it's all one big misunderstanding? Edward Snowden, who used to be a contractor for the NSA before he became famous for leaking some of its practices, worries that we might currently be deaf to alien communication. He expressed this view during a fascinating chat with Neil DeGrasse Tyson  on his StarTalk podcast . This was courtesy of a robot-controlled video screen from his Moscow location -- a communication system that DeGrasse Tyson described as "an iPad on wheels." It was wide-ranging chat between two nerds. Sample from Snowden: He once read a metallurgy textbook. S...

Is Abubakar Shekau, the acclaimed leader of Boko Haram, alive or dead? This is the question that is reverberating within the camps of the terrorist organisation and causing unease among  top leaders and members of the group, which has been killing and maiming since 2009.  Shekau has not been seen in action for a long time, fuelling speculation that he might have been killed or fatally wounded in battle with the Nigerian armed forces. The Department of State Security Service (DSS), under the Jonathan administration, had announced the death of the Boko Haram leader many times, and many times he resurfaced in poorly produced videos, claiming he was alive and could not be killed. The military and intelligence organisations in Nigeria, however, have chosen  to work with the premise that Shekau is alive and must be driven to his early grave for the Boko Haram war to  end. To them, the capture of the terrorist commander, dead or alive, remains a top priority...