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90 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty – Federal govt

The Federal Government has said almost half of Nigeria’s population, about 90 million people, live in extreme poverty. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Mrs Sadiya Farouq, declared this in Abuja on Monday when she appeared before the House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development to …

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Origin of modern humans ‘traced to Botswana’

Scientists say they’ve pinpointed the homeland of all humans alive today to a region south of the Zambesi River. The area is now dominated by salt pans, but was once home to an enormous lake, which may have been our ancestral heartland 200,000 years ago. Our ancestors settled for 70,000 …

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Support Ghana govt to grow the economy – Nigerian business tycoons in Ghana told

The Nigeria High Commissioner to Ghana, His Excellency, Olufemi Michael Abikoye has asked Nigeria citizens sojourning and doing businesses in Ghana to consider supporting Ghana government to build a resilient economy through social cooperate responsibility means. “Go before your social cooperate responsibilities. Where God is blessing you, you must give …

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[PHOTOS]: Lady drowns in floodwater five days to her wedding

A lady identified as Farida Saminu, drowned in floodwater in Kaduna state (Nigeria) on Sunday evening October 27th. According to reports, Farida was scheduled to have her wedding on Friday November 1st. A relative of the deceased, Husaini K. who spoke to LIB this morning, said Farida went for a meeting with the …

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Ghana signs 6-nation visa waiver for diplomatic & ordinary passports users

Ghanaians who hold ordinary passports and diplomatic passports can now travel to India, Iran, Colombia, Equatorial Guinea, Hungary and Morocco without Visa, MyNewsGh.com has learnt. Parliament approved the visa waiver deal on Friday before MPs took a weekend break. Minister of Foreign Affairs submitted the paperwork to parliament for approval. …

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[VIDEO]: Pastor shows female members best Sɛx positions to help keep their marriage

An interesting video has surfaced on social media and has got many tongues wagging as to how religion has taken over Africa. In the controversial viral video, a Ugandan pastor decided to equip his female members with some wild Sɛx styles that will sustain their marriages. The man of God …

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South African city shuts down all systems after cyber attack

The City of Joburg on Thursday night announced a breach of its network on and shut down its website and all e-services as a precautionary measure. In a tweet, the City said it had detected a network breach “which resulted which resulted in an unauthorised access to our information systems”. …

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Police discover another detention camp: rescue 108 inmates

Kwara state police command has paraded no fewer than 108 children and women it rescued from illegal rehabilitation centre. The command said it rescued the victims from Gaa’Odota in Ilorin West local government area of the state. Commissioner of Police Kayode Egbetokun said the command acted on an intelligent report …

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Man trafficking cocaine to finance his wedding arrested

Ibeh Augustine Chukwuma, a Brazil-based Nigerian man has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after arriving the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja with a maximum ECOLAC bag which had 5kg of pure cocaine. The 36-year-old Nigerian man who revealed that he has been working with a …

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South African school in ‘satanic artwork’ row

A South African Christian school has come under fire for exhibiting artwork at the institution that is considered “satanic” and blasphemous to the Christian faith. The display which is reportedly the work of a student at Grantleigh High School in Richard Bays town, in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, featured sacrilegious …

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