Ahmed Musa seeking loan from Neymar: Nigerians taunt FG over Brazil loan request
By David Royal Nigerians have condemned the Federal Government’s decision to take a fresh $1.2 billion loan from Brazil, describing the decision as one that will leave the country indebted for years. Some who strongly kicked against the Muhammadu Buhari administration’s penchant for increasing the nation’s debt profile now standing at over N31.009 trillion, called […]
Woman delivers miraculously at Prophet Fufeyin’s prayer ground
A woman with post-term pregnancy has miracuously given birth in a church as Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin prayed for her. The miracle happened on Sunday, November 1, at the Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry in Warri, Delta State, In a statement by the church, Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin, founder and senior prophet of the church had organised a […]
Obasanjo blames #ENDSARS protest on Nigeria’s poor investment in youth devt
By Victoria Ojeme Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has blamed the government’s inability to invest in youth development as a remote cause of the ongoing #ENDSARS protest across Nigeria. Obasanjo was president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. He oversaw his country’s first democratic handover of power and administrative reforms that accelerated economic growth. He […]
NEPAD seeks NASS support to combat poverty
Princess Gloria Akobundu, the National Coordinator, African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), has solicited the support of the National Assembly in combating the scourge of poverty in the country. Akobundu made the plea in Abuja while defending the agency’s 2021 budget before the joint National Assembly Committees on […]
Trump claims ‘win’, says will go to Court to dispute election count
United States (US) President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed he had won the US election, despite the final results not yet being given, and said he would go to the Supreme Court to dispute the counting of votes. “We did win this election,” Trump said in an extraordinary speech from the ceremonial East Room of […]
Ripples centre holds training on open contracting, data journalism, others
The Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism (RCDIJ), a non-profit sister organisation to Ripples Nigeria, Nigeria’s award-winning online newspaper, is set to hold its annual master class on data journalism for African journalists. The specialised training tagged ‘RCDIJ Data Journalism Master Class 2020’ is in partnership with Open Contracting Partnership, Code for Africa, BudgIT, […]
