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A Bill to repeal Terrorism, Prevention, Act, 2011 and enact Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill,Tuesday, scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. Mr Kayode Oladele, who sponsored the Bill, said that measures to combat kidnapping and hijacking were incorporated into the new bill. He said that the bill would provide measures for suppressing financing of terrorism in the country. The lawmaker added that the move became necessary to enable Nigeria effectively implement international instruments on the prevention and combating of terrorism. According to him, “Several fundamental changes were incorporated into the revised bill to ensure the domestication of international…

Tiny Les Herbiers fell short of claiming one of the biggest upsets in football history but pushed the mighty Paris Saint-Germain most of the way before losing 2-0 in Tuesday’s French Cup final. Giovani Lo Celso scored PSG’s opening goal in the first half at the Stade de France, breaking the resistance of Les Herbiers after they had been saved three times by the woodwork in the opening stages. PSG were then denied a second goal by a controversial call from the Video Assistant Referee, and they needed an Edinson Cavani penalty in the 74th minute to secure the victory.…

By Anietie Ukpe The cautionary aspect in underestimating an evil genius is that before you wake up to his ingenuity, he may have taken you for a ride. Take the case of information minister, Lai Mohammed! In a major propaganda coup, which definitely lends itself to academic study and research, he has succeeded in labeling a holocaust/pogrom as a clash. Consequently, instead of talking of the Fulani herdsmen’s pogroms (or genocides), the world is talking of the herdsmen/farmers clashes in Nigeria. We are so immersed in this propaganda and deceit that our senses and morality have been numbed. According to…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Tuesday, says that the Federal Government and not the corporation is responsible for payment of subsidy on petrol to marketers. Addressing the House of Representatives’ Ad-hoc Committee investigating the status of the nation’s four refineries, Mr. Anibor Kragha, Chief Operating Officer in-charge of Refineries, who represented the NNPC, admitted that it was the Federal Government and not the corporation is paying the subsidy. The NNPC also says it spent $396.33 million on Turn-Around Maintenance, TAM, for the country’s four refineries between 1998 and 2008. However, in the TAM record sent to the Committee, chaired…

There are numerous ways to slow down the aging process when it comes to how you look. You can go to the spa, apply many different types of chemicals, take magic pills, and many other activities. The easiest, cheapest, and most consistent way to keep your skin looking great for years is to eat certain foods that are good for the skin. The next time you are at the grocery store, try to pick up these 14 Foods to Eat to Slow Aging. 1. Green Tea Green tea has become more and more famous each year due to the healthy…

Indigenes of Otomo community in Ika local government area of Akwa Ibom state were in the early hours of Monday thrown into mourning and confusion as a 46-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in his uncompleted building. Nobody could say why the deceased, Aniekan Peter Sunday, took his own life as at the time of filing this report. However, sources in the community revealed that the deceased being the only surviving son of the family was supposed to bury his father next Friday. The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ika local government, Musa Rilwanu had visited the scene of the suicide after the…

The Senate has summoned four leading Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM operators: MTN, Airtel, Globacom, and 9Mobile to appear before its Committee on Communications to explain, among others,  reasons for frequent unsolicited calls, product and programme promos to their customers. These, companies, according to Senate, also trick Nigerians to subscribe to riddles, bad jokes, indiscriminate religious contents and caller tunes, adding that the summon was part of moves to check intrusive and unsolicited adverts from them to their numerous customers. Those to also appear before the Senator Gilbert Nnaji, PDP, Enugu East led Senate Committee on Communications are the…

Margaret Oputa, mother of Charles Oputa popularly called Charley Boy, has turned 100 years old on Tuesday. The centenarian is the wife of the late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa who served in the Supreme Court of Nigeria from 1984 to 1989. In celebrating her, the activist took to his Facebook page to pour encomiums on his mother, who is already a great grandmother. He wrote: “Abegi Help Us Thank God. Many cheers to our rugged, peaceful and serene great grandmother. “In fact, you deserve to live in paradise and shown the finer things, but you rather be with us in this…

The Saturday’s All Progressives Congress, APC Ward Congress marred by violence and disruptions nationwide has given party men and indeed political watchers growing concern on how sanity and decorum are becoming deficits in the country’s troubling political climate. From one state to another, pockets of violence and bravado marked by fisticuffs, ballot boxes snatching, grand manipulation of results and change of venue subterfuge greeted the concluded congress hitherto organised as a prelude to other congresses. Yet, the outcome portended grave dangers to the nation’s crawling democracy in a desperate attempt by the party to hold onto power at all cost.…

A one-time Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has advocated the adoption of Chinese model of electing their leaders, based on their past performances at lower levels of government, for Nigeria. Obi opined this at the weekend during an international conference on the theme of Philosophy, Law and Politics, at the Claretian Institute of Philosophy (CIP), Maryland, Nekede, saying that “since leadership was the fundamental problem of Nigeria, all hands must be on deck in the efforts to devise better ways of electing the leaders of the country.” Speaking on Human Development Index, he argued that Nigeria and the World said that its improvement was directly proportional to the…