The Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday accused Governor Seriake Dickson of being the behind the crisis rocking the party in the state. The Bayelsa APC in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Panebi Fortune, said there was an underhand dealing between the …
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How Twitter, Palmchat messaging app boost use of hashtags
Hash tags are not memes, as a lot of people tend to see them that way especially because it has risen to much prominence due to social media usage. While the word is synonymous with social media, some people think that hashtag is part of English punctuation marks. Hash tags …
Read More »Wizkid insults Linda Ikeji, says his director slept with her and he’ll beat her up! (SEE SNAPSHOT)
It seems the brouhaha between Wizkid and Linda Ikeji is not going to end soon as Wizkid just dented Linda’s reputation of not using a man to get to the top. It all started with Linda posing with her now infamous bag,only for Wizkid to lash at her on instagram …
Read More »FG working hard to relieve Nigerians’ pains,says Lai Mohammed
The Federal Government has said it is keenly aware of the difficulties that Nigerians are currently facing over the lingering fuel scarcity and poor power supply, and that it is working round the clock to provide the relief for the citizenry. ”As a government that was propelled into office by …
Read More »Boeing to cut more than 4,500 jobs in 2016
Boeing will eliminate about 4,000 jobs in its commercial airplanes division by the middle of this year, the company’s spokesman, Doug Alder said on Wednesday. Another company’s Spokesperson Sandra Angers also said Boeing would cut about 10 per cent of the approximately 5,700 jobs in its test and evaluation division. …
Read More »CBN to sell N219bn worth of treasury bills at auction
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it plans to sell N218.89 billion worth of treasury bills on April 7. The CBN disclosed this in its treasury bills issuing calendar for second quarter of 2016. It said it would sell N55.40 billion worth of three-month tenored bills at the auction …
Read More »Lagos begins prosecution of Tax defaulters from April 1
In consonance with Section 82 of the Personal Income Tax Act (as amended), The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) wishes to formally notify the public of its intention to commence the prosecution of tax evaders and offenders in Lagos State beginning from April 1,2016. Under the Personal Income Tax …
Read More »10,000 hunters gather, seek clearance to fight Boko Haram
An estimated 10,000 local hunters from the North-East of Nigeria gathered recently in Adamawa State for their annual oath-taking festival, known as Salala in the local parlance. The hunters, dressed in their warfare attires, and with their dane guns dangling over their shoulders, vowed to rid the society of criminals. …
Read More »Islamic State threat raises stakes for US nuclear summit
The specter of the Islamic State group obtaining a “dirty bomb” will loom over a top-level nuclear security summit hosted by President Barack Obama in Washington on Thursday and Friday. Obama welcomes several leaders from countries as diverse as China and Nigeria, as well as representatives from nearly 50 other …
Read More »Blow for British steel industry as Tata to sell plants
Indian steel giant Tata Steel on Wednesday put its British business up for sale, placing thousands of jobs at risk and striking a heavy blow to the crisis-hit steel industry. Tata said in a statement that trading conditions had “rapidly deteriorated” in Britain and Europe due to a global oversupply …
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