Nigeria/morocco To Produce One Million Tons Of Fertilizer From 2017

Nigeria and Morocco to partner for production of mass fertilizersAn agreement between the governments of Nigeria and Morocco, anchored by Fertilizer Producers and Suppliers of Nigeria, FEPSAN and a Moroccan company, OCP will yield one million tons of fertilizer through local production for next farming season. This will be a short term solution that will, by a signed agreement also force the price of fertilizer from N8,000 to a low of about N5,000.In...

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Jamb forms are not on sale yet

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has urged the public to disregard the speculations that it had commenced the sales of its application documents for 2017 UTME by some group of persons.The board’s head of media and information, Fabian Benjamin, debunked the speculations in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Sunday in Lagos.According to the statement, the registrar of the examination body, Ishaq Oloyede,...

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Robbers caught while putting money in private part

  The Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested two suspected robbers, who reportedly stole N1.548 million and tried to hide it in their private parts.They were apprehended on Thursday, December 1, 2016, in the Oshodi area of Lagos.WuzupNaija reported that the money in question is from an abandoned loot.The pair have been taken in for questioning by the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS).They were arrested while trying to hide...

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‘Nobody will give Buhari $30b,’

  The Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has said that no country will lend $30b to the Nigerian government.The monarch said this at a forum organised by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD), in Abuja.Sanusi also warned that crude oil will never make Nigeria rich, adding that it will also not bring the country out of its current economic woes.The Emir said ”I can tell you for free, if the Senate today approves...

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Meet, Pastor Ernest Chigozie Mbanefo, the man behind Ponzi scheme

  According to a report from the Vanguard, a Nigerian man based in South Africa, PastorErnest Chigozie Mbanefo is the brains behindMMM Nigeria.Nigerian Communications Week reports that Mbanefo registered the domain MMM-Nigeria.net on June 7, 2016, at about 5p.m Nigerian time. The domain is said to expire exactly a year later.MMM Nigeria is said not to be in the MMM Global set up which is the popular Ponzi scheme that started in Russia in the...

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How incompetence and cruelty killed a corps member in Kano

   Ifedolapo Oladepo was killed by the incompetence of NYSC officials in camp, and this is her story.When she set out from Osun State from her alma mater, Ladoke Akintola University of Science and Technology, she had only one destination; NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Kusala Dam, Karaye, Karaye Local Government, Kano State.She arrived late, exhausted, and because of the stress, coupled with the strenuous registration exercise, she developed...

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Deposits on foreign accounts now limited to 10,000 dollars only

Nigeria's Apex Bank,CBN has limited the amount of deposits on foreign accounts to ($10,000) monthly per customer. This was made known by text messages and mail recieved by some customers of certain banks.Below is what Stanbic Ibtc sent to a customerEsteemed Customer,Thank you for banking with us.We write to inform you that foreign transfers from domiciliary accounts on the back of funding through cash deposits is now restricted to a maximum of Ten...

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Important notice from JAMB for al newly admitted students

 All candidates who have been offered provisional admission for the 2016/2017 academic session to institutions they did not choose as their most preferred institution (First Choice) or did not choose at all that they are to proceed to JAMB portal: jamb.org.ng to make the institution that have offered them admission their most preferred choice.The same applies to candidates who have been offered courses different from the one they originally...

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‘I have thrown my green card away,’

   Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has fulfilled his promise to do away with his US green card. He made the disclosure on Thursday, December 1, on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg, AFP reports.“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do,” Soyinka said“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away the (green) card, and...

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Ali Modu Sheriff summons Mimiko, Jegede to disciplinary committee over Ondo state PDP loss

Ali Modu-Sheriff's faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has summoned Governor Olusegun Mimiko, his deputy, Alhaji Azeez Oluboyo and the governorship candidate in the November 26 election, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), to appear before its disciplinary committee.Governor Mimiko was alleged to have contravened the constitution of the party through his actions during last Saturday’s poll.Factional Chairman, Mr. Poroye Biyi, in a statement...

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Is this government out to tax Nigerians to death - Ayo Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said the President Mohammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) federal government desire was to tax Nigerians to death, saying; “Nigerians must resist any attempt to impose new tax on them.”The governor described the federal government’s plan to increase the cost of data as wicked, adding that “Most Nigerians are still alive today because they are kept busy by their access to social media. They...

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Victor Moses wins PFA player of the month of November

Nigeria's and Chelsea star Victor Moses has won the PFA Fans' Premier League Player of the Month award for November, beating the likes of Sergio Aguero and Gylfi Sigurdsson.More than 40,000 votes were cast in the poll, which was held on the Sky Sports website and apps, with Moses claiming a landslide victory with 18,756 votes.Swansea's Sigurdsson came second with 7,791 votes, while Watford's Nordin Amrabat was third with 5,378 votes. Rounding off...

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Photo : River's state Governor Nyesom Wike sleeping during a rally

Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike was spotted sleeping during a rally at Emohua Local Government Area yesterday ahead of the rerun election.The governor who was accompanied by former acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus and other party stalwarts appeared tired due to the grueling event -hence he decided to re...

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Polytechnic rector slumps, dies during sex rump with teenager

    Acting Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe, Bayelsa State, has slumped and died at a hotel in Ughelli during an alleged sex romp with an unidentified teenager.Vanguard reports that the rector whose identity has been withheld, slumped in his hotel room in Zekoh Place located at Onoharigho street, Ughelli and was rushed to a private clinic close to the hotel. He was reportedly confirmed dead on arrival.A source at the Ughelli...

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100% price increase in data plans across all network for Nigerians from December 1st

GSM Subscribers across the country would pay more for data with effect from December 1, 2016.According to the PUNCH, the telecoms companies declined to speak on the matter, top management workers across the networks confirmed the story to our correspondent, saying that the directive was from the Nigerian Communications Commission.Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a senior management employee of Etisalat Nigeria said, “The NCC issued the directive...

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Plane carrying football team crashes

   A plane carrying members of Brazil's Chapecoense Real football team crashed late Monday near the Colombian city of Medellin, officials said."Confirmed, the aircraft license number CP2933 was carrying the team @ChapecoenseReal. Apparently there are survivors," the Jose Maria Cordova de Rionegro airport, which serves Medellin, said on its Twitter account.According to the UK Guardian, the plane was carrying more than 70 people.Medellin...

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Power shortage will become a doom's day scenario if not handled properly - NERC Boss

Acting Chairman /Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Anthony Akah, has said that if care is not taken, the shortfall in the power sector will hit N3 trillion by the end of this year. Akah revealed this in a statement over the weekend.“This is like a doom’s day scenario because if care is not taken, shortfall in power sector will hit N3 trillion by end of 2016. The reason is lack of revenue attributed to the...

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Senate makes dramatic turn as it drops the name of Buhari's successful nominee for commissioner of NCC

TWELVE days after the Senate cleared Chief Okoi Ofem Obono-Obla, Cross River, South South, as a non-Executive Commissioner on the governing board of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, it has made a dramatic turn by dropping his name from the list of successful nominees sent to President Muhammadu Buhari.Obono-Obla’s name was removed in the letter transmitted to Buhari as one of those confirmed by the legislature.In the letter dated November...

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Pastor makes cool cash from sales of anointed cucumber

    A Zimbabwean clergyman, Prophet Walter Magaya, has made money from his congregation through the sale of what he called anointed cucumber.This has led to a bit of negativity on social media, especially on micro blogging site, Twitter .A user with the ID @mcicewater attributed the occurrence as a sign of the end time.He wrote, "Signs of the end time. Zimbabwean prophet Walter Magaya allegedly sold anointed cucumbers to his church."According...

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I slept for 22 hrs in London hospital after heart surgery – Tony Anenih

    Octogenarian and a former Board of Trustees, BoT, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, yesterday, revealed how he slept for 22 hours when he underwent a major heart snuggery at a private hospital in London.Chief Anenih, who spoke during a thanksgiving service in his honour held at the Our Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral Catholic Church, Area 3, Abuja, recalled that about seven doctors conducted surgeries...

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