Today's Scoops
Patience Jonathan to court: “Even Aisha Buhari wants to build a university”
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BOOs
Setting a new agenda for Buhari’s next government
May 4, 2019Fellow Nigerians, by the 29th of May, two thousand and nineteen years after the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, the present government of President Muhammadu Buhari would have fully completed and exhausted four incredible years in power. It would...
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Scoopinions
Nigeria must end its relationship with parasitic ex-leaders like Yari
May 4, 2019In a matter of weeks, AbdulAziz Yari will no longer be the number one citizen of Zamfara state. But he has little or nothing to bemoan. Beyond the fact that, like most Nigerian governors after serving two terms, he is...
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Scoopinions
Our misplaced priority on fuel subsidy will kill us
May 3, 2019The International Monetary Fund at its latest spring meetings presented its World Economic Outlook that included country-specific-evaluations and recommendations. In the case of Nigeria, the IMF identified the 1.9 percent GDP growth, decelerating price increase and the gradual convergence in...
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Today's Scoops
Atiku’s university, SMB to disburse GIZ-funded aid to returnee IDP farmers
May 3, 2019The American University of Nigeria (AUN) and a Yola-based bank, Standard Microfinance Bank, have signed an agreement to disburse cash and agricultural inputs to vulnerable returnee farmers in Maiha, Mubi North, and Mubi South Local Government Areas of Adamawa State....
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NASS
House of Reps summons Buhari for the third time
May 3, 2019The House of Representatives has again summoned President Muhammadu Buhari to address Nigerians on measures being taken to curb the rising cases of banditry, armed robbery, kidnapping and killings across the country. The House had on April 11, made the...
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Today's Scoops
Buhari’s district head kidnapped in Daura
May 2, 2019Alhaji Musa Umar, the district head of Daura (President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown) has been kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen. Umar’s abduction is only the recent case in a series of kidnaps that have plagued the country in recent times with...
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Today's Scoops
FG: Zainab Aliyu was released by Saudi Arabia because of Buhari’s goodwill
May 2, 2019The Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, has said that the release of a Nigerian national, Zainab Aliyu by Saudi authorities is a sign of the goodwill Nigeria is enjoying under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. Backstory: Mustapha Sulaiman, Permanent...
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NASS
Key things to know about NASS-approved 2019 budget, including the extra N90 billion
May 2, 2019Both the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly have reached a consensus on the 2019 national budget, jointly passing a budget of N8.916 trillion, and would now transmit the document back to the president for assent. Backstory: The...
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Today's Scoops
Oyo State Governor-elect is proposing to negotiate the minimum wage – why it matters
May 2, 2019Oyo State Governor-elect, Seyi Makinde believes it is wrong for the federal government to determine minimum wage for the states. According to Makinde, states, based on the principle of federalism, should determine the viable minimum wage for its civil servants. ...
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Activism
Why Naira Marley, Olamide, Davido will get away with endorsing yahoo fraud
April 30, 2019“If u know about slavery u go know say yahoo no b crime,” Naira Marley, a Nigerian artist said just over a week ago, basically justifying internet fraud in 2019 as a sort of response to slavery. Naira Marley was...
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Today's Scoops
Boko Haram terrorists earn more than Nigerian soldiers – why it matters
April 30, 2019A member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed, has revealed that Nigerian soldiers receive N1000 as daily allowance, while Boko Haram terrorists receive $3000. Mohammed, who heads Humanitarian Assistance and Rehabilitation at PCNI,...
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Scoopinions
Bashir El-Rufai and why we need a single Nigeria Civil War story
April 30, 2019Just over a week ago, Bashir El-Rufai, the son of Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai, wrote this in a now deleted tweet: “A segment of a nation undertook a coup and killed other regional leaders with so much disrespect & expected...
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Today's Scoops
Gov. Dickson withholds assent to controversial “life pension” bill for Bayelsa lawmakers
April 30, 2019Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has withheld assent to the divisive “lifetime pension” proposed for former members of the state’s legislature, and recently passed by the State House of Assembly. Backstory: The state assembly had proposed and passed a bill...
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Politics
Kogi Gov. Bello fires back at ‘seasonal lizards’ in his own party
April 30, 2019Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, has responded to a letter forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari and the party’s leadership, by an All Progressives Congress Stakeholders’ Forum in his state, questioning his credibility going into the November 2, 2019 governorship election....
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Today's Scoops
Another recession is possible from next year – Gov. Yari warns
April 30, 2019The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has advised returning and newly elected state governors to prepare for tough times in governing their states. Particularly, the NGF warned that there might yet be another cycle of recession from mid-2020 to the third...
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Activism
The all-male leaders’ club is holding us back. Now is the time for a women’s justice agenda
April 30, 2019On April 28, 2019, Matt Obono, convener of the TAP Initiative reported that 70 women were illegally arrested and brought to the Utako police station in Abuja. Their offense: partying at a nightclub. But it did not stop there. Obono reported...
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Doing Business
Dangote has a private sector proposal to fix Nigeria’s public universities – why it matters
April 28, 2019Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, wants the private sector to do more to improve public universities in Nigeria. He advocated private sector collaboration with government to address the issues affecting the universities, mostly lack of investments in the system due...
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Politics
What you need to know about Atiku’s bid to reclaim “stolen mandate” at the tribunal
April 28, 2019Nigeria’s main opposition candidate in the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar is bidding to overturn his electoral defeat at the courts. Atiku insists that he won the polls and has vowed to reclaim his stolen mandate. Atiku is yet to...
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Politics
Northern youths to APC: Tinubu wants to snatch power before 2023
April 28, 2019The Northern Youths Movement (NYM) has warned the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to be mindful of a plot by the party’s National Leader, Bola Tinubu, to snatch power from President Muhammadu Buhari before 2023. Backstory: The group...
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Scoopinions
How Nigeria should take advantage of Qatar’s security and economic opportunities
April 28, 2019Beyond all the fanfare and the ceremonies, the state visit by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-thani to Nigeria offers the both countries an opportunity for stronger cooperation and prosperity. President Buhari solicited the support of his...
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BOOs
What Nigerian students told us about transactional sex on campus
May 19, 2019Transactional sex among female undergraduates in Nigeria is a social reality. The practice has been reported on regularly in the mainstream media and explored in various research papers. This cross...
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BOOs
How do Nigerian gay and bisexual men cope? This is what they told us
May 21, 2019Many Africans who are not gay or bisexual – sexually attracted only to people of the same sex or of both sexes – claim that being gay or bisexual is...
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Today's Scoops
Obasanjo warns that Nigeria is self destructing. It’s consequential
May 19, 2019“We are heading to self-destruction”, Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo warned over the weekend. According to him, the failure of government to deliver the dividends of democracy (“security, safety, freedoms...
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Scoopinions
Analysing Nigeria’s new minimum wage: What it means for workers, govt and businesses
May 19, 2019First a short background: In 2018, the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) embarked on a nationwide strike to pressurize governments at all levels to increase the minimum wage from N18,000 to...
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Politics
Tambuwal won with the slimmest margin. Now he says they want to stop his inauguration
May 20, 2019Of all the governors-elect in the country, the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, was the one who won his election in March with the slimmest margin. Just 341 votes was...
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Today's Scoops
FG urges Obasanjo to retract Boko Haram statement and apologize
May 21, 2019In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed urged former president Olusegun Obasanjo to retract statements he made about Boko Haram...
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Scoopinions
The Shameless Republic of Nigeria
May 23, 2019Public holidays do not exist for self-employed people, so on Easter Monday, I found myself buying a takeaway lunch at a small restaurant near my office in Ogba. The sales...
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Today's Scoops
Gov. Bello walks out Kogi chief judge from Government House
May 21, 2019The faceoff between the Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello, and the state’s chief judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah, continued on Tuesday as the judge was walked out of a function at the...
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BOOs
As humiliated Amaechi tries to play God on Igbo presidency
May 20, 2019Rotimi Amaechi’s recent declaration that the Igbo should forget about the presidency in 2023 “for refusing to support the APC…” is both self-adulating and hypocritical, and must be treated as...
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Today's Scoops
Gov. Wike sacks traditional ruler
May 21, 2019Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, has sacked the traditional ruler of Baabe Kingdom, His Royal Highness, Monday Noryaa, for his alleged involvement in cultism. In a statement by his Special Assistant...
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Events
7 takeaways from @AbujaGSC dialogue on health financing in Nigeria
November 6, 2017The issue of health financing, funding and the rising cost of health care in Nigeria were on the front burner last Friday at the Dialogue Series of the Global Shapers...
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Politics
Buhari’s assistant sulks and melts down on national TV (Watch)
November 1, 2017Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecutions, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, was a guest on Monday’s edition of AIT’s breakfast program, Kaakaki. Interviewed by the duo of Utibe Umoren and...
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Slider
“Boko Haram is broke” – UN
February 8, 2017The Boko Haram sect is currently plagued by financial difficulties, Jeffrey Feltman, UN under-secretary-general for political affairs, has said. Feltman said this on Tuesday, while briefing the security council on...