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Mubarak Bala, a well-known Nigerian atheist and former president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, has been released after serving over four years in prison for blasphemy.
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2024年12月11日 · Boko Haram militants killed 14 Nigerian fishermen in Niger’s Diffa region, near the Nigerian border, according to reports from an anti-jihadist militia leader on Tuesday. The victims, who had fled ongoing violence in northeast Nigeria, were ambushed and killed while fishing near Bosso on Sunday. Babakura Kolo, a leader of a vigilante group assisting Nigeria’s military, confirmed the ...
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2024年12月9日 · Former Cross River State lawmaker Cletus Obun has expressed skepticism over Nigeria's growing relationship with France. The APC chieftain made this known on Monday, December 9, during an interview series with The News Chronicle. Speaking to Prof. Jideofor Adibe, Obun argued that this skepticism stemmed from France's precedence and history. Recall that President Bola Tinubu recently completed a ...
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As Human Rights Day is marked today globally, a rights group, the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre, RULAAC, has called for an end to the Nigeria Police Force's unprofessional and abusive approach to the discharge of duties. The rights group is also calling on the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, to order the …
BREAKING: National Grid Collapses for the Fourth Time in Three …
2024年12月11日 · Nigerians have once again been plunged into darkness following the collapse of the national power grid, marking the first outage in December 2024. This is the fourth grid collapse in the past three months, disrupting power supply in many parts of the country. Some areas are still recovering from the effects of previous system failures. Details later!!!
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2024年10月31日 · Slowly but fatally, like a boa constrictor, the Indigenous People of Biafra are strangling the southeast region of Nigeria, while the Nigerian government looks on, reluctant to intervene in a region suffused with historical banana peels. It started with the stay-at-home order imposed in 2021. The order which continues to shutter schools, shops and other public places every Monday started off ...
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2024年11月26日 · Hello and welcome! In today's trending news stories; 1. Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has suspended Wale Ajetunmobi, his senior special assistant on print media, following controversial comments on social media. In a now-deleted post on X (formerly Twitter) on November 23, Ajetunmobi claimed that many individuals involved in the 2020 burning of Television Continental (TVC) were “hunted ...
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2024年11月24日 · Nigeria is a nation richly blessed with various natural resources, including crude oil, natural gas, gold, tin, timber, californium, and agricultural products. These resources, combined with its large population of over 200 million people, have earned Nigeria the title of the Giant of Africa. Yet, despite its abundant wealth, Nigeria has consistently relied on borrowing money from institutions ...
New Minimum Wage Dwarfed By A 123% Increase In Rice Prices
2024年10月28日 · A 50kg bag of locally parboiled rice now costs, on average, N105,000. According to THE NEWS CHRONICLES market survey, this is more than Nigeria's new N70,000 minimum wage. A 50 kg bag of imported parboiled rice currently costs N130,000. In contrast, the price of local parboiled rice, a mainstay in Nigerian cuisine, has increased by 123% annually since the petrol subsidy's elimination and the ...