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Nigerian Southern Governors demand restructuring and more.0
- News
- Thursday, May 13th, 2021
The governors of southern Nigeria on the 11th of May 2021 held a meeting over the ravaging security crisis in the country and took far-reaching decisions to contain the situation. The decisions were read out by the chairman of the forum, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State. Southern Governors demand restructuring and more. Some of
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LASTMA as an instrument of extortion and entrapment in Lagos State.0
- Nigeria
- Saturday, May 8th, 2021
The supposed purpose of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) is to “manage traffic in Lagos State, Nigeria”. In other words, LASTMA is traffic wardens tasked with the sole purpose of managing the free flow of traffic. But, as a lot of Lagosians will observe, the agency has morphed into a money-making machine both
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Gumi demands the CNB pay 100 million Greenfield students’ ransom.4
- News
- Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
Sheik Ahmad Gumi, an Islamic cleric, recently urged the Federal Government of Nigeria not to make light the threat by the kidnappers of students of the Greenfield University, Kaduna. He warned of dire consequences in relation to the lives of the students should the ransom demands of the kidnappers not be met. Gumi urges FG
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African Participation and Resistance to the Slave Trade 0
- Africa
- Saturday, May 1st, 2021
With some early exceptions, Europeans were not able to independently enter the West and Central African interior to capture Africans and force them onto ships to the Americas. Instead, European traders generally relied on a network of African rulers and traders to capture and bring enslaved Africans from various coastal and interior regions to slave
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Kankara schoolboys’ abductor purportedly shot dead by rivals.1
- News
- Saturday, May 1st, 2021
The so-called bandit kidnapper kingpin who became famous for the abduction of over 300 Kangara schoolboys has been reportedly shut dead by a rival gang in the forest of Auwal Daudawa Kastina state. There is media report to the effect that he met his demise at the hands of a rival gang at Dumburum forest
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CBN sacks board of the First Bank over insider’ meddling.0
- News
- Friday, April 30th, 2021
Adedeuntan has over the years being a check on the excesses of the First Bank board members in securing insider loans. These loans often then go unpaid and labelled as bad debt in later years. This malaise has over the years ruined and run a number of Nigerian banks into oblivion. CBN sacks board of
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