BREAKING: US increases tourism visa cost to N99, 900 for Nigerians, blames FG

The United States Embassy in Nigeria says effective from Thursday, August 29, 2019, Nigerians applying for tourism, student and business visas will not only pay the N59, 200 fee but will have to pay an extra $110 (N40, 700) after the visa has been issued to them bringing the total cost to N99, 900. However, applicants who are denied visas would not need to pay the extra...

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NLC Set To Hold National Rally Over Insecurity

Worried by the rising insecurity in the country the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has concluded plans to embark on a nationwide rally. The rally according to the union is to sensitise governments and citizens on the need to urgently arrest the increased case of insecurity ranging from kidnapping, banditry, among others. This decision, which was disclosed in a communique...

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Buhari’s govt wants to frame Obasanjo, says Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday raised the alarm that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government was desperately plotting to frame former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop him from criticising Buhari’s administration. Atiku, in a statement by his media office, also alleged that the Economic...

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Nigeria to become the world’s capital for infants’ death.by 2021--World Bank

A new report by the World Bank says Africa’s giant, Nigeria, will by 2021 become the world’s capital for infants’ death. The revelation is contained in the latest bi-annual economic report of the World Bank’s Bretton Woods Institution. It predicts that the most populous country on the continent will overtake India as the nation with the highest number of infant mortality...

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ASUU Strike: Nigerian govt resumes talks with striking lecturers

The federal government on Tuesday resumed talks with the leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the ongoing strike in public universities which entered a month today. The crucial meeting has in attendance the national president of the union, Biodun Ogunyemi, who led the union’s delegation. The meeting is taking place at the Federal Ministry of...

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Students kick as Osinbajo visits OAU for convocation

Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife on Monday expressed their reservations against the planned visit of the Nigerian Vice -president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo into the campus to attend the 43rd combined convocation of the university holding next week. The students, through their representative, Gbenga Ololoniran, who is the Protem Chairman, Students’ Union...

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‘Rice importation to end in Nigeria by 2020’

The Policy Adviser of the John Kufuor Foundation, Hon. Abraham Dwuma, on Tuesday expressed the belief that rice importation into the country would end by 2020. Dwuma told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin that the Africa Rice Advocacy Platform under the JKF had  created a rice value chain to achieve this. He said the purpose of the platform was for Africa to achieve...

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