Author: Femi Ajasa
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsAPP return with apology
Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time, triggering a record 10.6 million problem reports, according to website monitoring group Downdetector. It said the outage was the largest such failure it had ever seen. Around 5:45 pm ET, some Facebook users began to regain partial access to the social…
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Nigerians to face test, isolation as UK rejects COVID-19 vaccine certificate
The United Kingdom has relaxed COVID-19 restriction for 50 countries excluding Nigeria and other African countries. The measure which came into effect yesterday had countries and territories categorised as either “red” or “rest of the world.” With the new travel rules, the UK has stopped the previous traffic light system of green, amber and red…
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Russian PMCs are the target of unprincipled competitors
In recent months, the world’s media have once again started talking about Russian military instructors. The Government of Mali invited Russians from the famous Wagner PMCs to train their national army. The country has been living in a state of civil war for almost a decade. Armed radical groups occupy vast territories in the north-east…
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Workplace Envy, Jealousy and Rivalry – Hope Eghagha
BY Hope Eghagha There are times when one’s workplace is akin to a warfront. That is, there are always attritive battles to be fought, won or lost. With each loss or victory, enemies are created. It does not matter that the victor was right. Once he wins a battle, he creates enemies. And makes a…
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Two killed in fresh attack on Kaduna village, el-Rufai reacts
Troops of Operation Safe Haven say some unidentified persons have attacked Ungwan Taila village in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, during which two residents died. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday in Kaduna. Aruwan said the troops arrived in the…
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Nigeria @ 61: Realities, Aspirations and Way Forward – Dakuku Peterside
Dakuku Peterside Sixty-one years ago ,there were celebrations across the length and breadth of Nigeria. In every hue and corner of this developing nation, people were brimming with happiness at the prospect of this new nation – a nation born with heavy birth pangs and the struggles of leaders of the time to give freedom…
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Vat war: Time for mediation – Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale “The wrong war, at the wrong time and the wrong place.” General Omar Bradley, 1893-1981, America’s only five Star General. When the Kennedy and Johnson administrations got the USA more deeply involved in the Viet Nam war, General Bradley voiced the minority opinion among the military establishment. He was ignored. America suffered…
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Mentally-ill woman kills nonagenarian, other in Osun
A woman identified as Adu Esther, who is suspected to be mentally-ill has killed a 90-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man, in Ilesa, Osun State. The victims, Madam Ojuolape Olojo and Sunday Samson, were said to be living together with the mad woman at Ita Balogun area, Ilesa. It was gathered that the mad woman,…
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Video: Joe Igbokwe fingers IPOB as gunmen raze his house in Anambra
The spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress, Lagos State chapter, Joe Igbokwe, has accused members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra of invading his house in Nnewi, Anambra State, and setting it ablaze. Mr Igbokwe said security cameras captured the arsonists arriving in a vehicle at his residence in the commercial Anambra town. He said…
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JUST IN: Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ladi Williams dies of COVID-19
Chief Ladi Williams, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and first son of late judiciary giant, Chief Rotimi Williams, has passed away at the age of 75. The late lawyer was said to have died Sunday morning at the Saint Nicholas Hospital in Lagos. According to reports he died from complications related to COVID-19. “Just received…