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A Ghanaian king has temporarily abdicated his throne by becoming a gardener in Canada to raise more money to provide health-care services for his 6,000 subjects at home. Eric Manu, a king of Akan in Adansi Aboabo village, Ghana, was crowned when his 67-year-old uncle, Dat, passed away in 2016. After living in Canada for three years with his wife and son, Manu returned to his town in the southern Ghana to reclaim his birthright. But now, Manu has gone back to British Columbia area of Canada and taken his old job – landscaping and gardening. He told CTV News,…

US President, Donald Trump has repudiated his purported disparaging outbursts reviling Nigerian immigrants for residing in huts back home. The New York Times reports that during a meeting held in the Oval Office in June, Trump said immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS”, Afghanistan was described as ”a haven of terrorists” and Nigerians living in the US were mocked for residing in huts back home. “Forty thousand (migrants) had come from Nigeria. Once they had seen the United States, they would never ‘go back to their huts’ in Africa,” the New York Times (NYT) quoted Trump to have stated this…

2017 is grinding to an end. Before a flamethrower is put to the year, there is need to look at the best movies across the globe. From the titanic Dunkirk to the iconic Logan Lucky feature greatest living actors- Daniel Day-Lewis, the movies appear on both the studio and big screens to make people forget their daily troubles and escape stories that have stayed with us long after the closing credits. Here are 11 best movies from this year: Logan Lucky This is the best movie you didn’t see this year. Sadly, Steven Soderbergh’s southern-fried version of “Ocean’s 11” didn’t…

Bitcoin prices climbed back above the $15,000 mark Saturday following a steep decline Friday when the cryptocurrency shed about a third of its value. Bitcoin, which is known to be extremely volatile, sank below $11,000 at one point Friday, according to data from CoinDesk.com. Prices had approached $20,000 as recently as a week ago. Amid the turbulence Friday, one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase, said buys and sells might be “temporarily offline” due to high traffic. The price dip came on the back of a few days of bad news for bitcoin, which has still soared by more than 1,000% since the start of the year.…

More Nigerians lost their jobs in 2017, thus populating the huge unemployment market, according to National Bureau of Statistics. The Bureau reports that the unemployment rate has increased to 18.8 per cent. About 51.1 million Nigerians are currently employed, NBS reported. The rate of unemployed Nigerians increased from 16.2 percent in the second quarter of 2017 to 18.8 percent in the third quarter. This is contained in the third quarter unemployment report which the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released Friday. The unemployment report reads “The number of unemployed people within the labour force who are unemployed or underemployed increased from…

Senate Plenary adjourned sitting to resume on January 19, 2018. Committees of Senate are, however, expected to resume on January 9, 2018 to continue with defence of 2018 budget by Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government. Senators had taken turns to express their criticisms on the 2018 budget which they said the Executive put together in an unserious manner.

Reformed Niger Delta Avengers have vowed to cripple the nation’s oil production if Federal Government fails to meet their condition within four weeks. In a press release made available to newsmen, the militants have called on the federal government to withdraw another $1b from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) for the development of the Niger Delta region. They queried government’s decision to withdraw $1b from the Excess Crude Account to fight Boko Haram insurgency. The militants blamed federal government for neglecting Niger Delta region, saying “nothing stops the government from withdrawing from funds generated by the region to develop the region…

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Dr. Bukola Saraki, Senate President punched the air that more females are jobless in Nigeria than males without any serious attempt to address the parity. The statistics revealed by Dr. Saraki, was already in the public domain and not a product of his research or brain. Before this time, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) had rolled a report that out of 38.2 million youths component of the labour force in the country, 15.2 million are either seeking employment or out of job. The report further revealed “Available statistics show that majority of unemployed youth are female.” Though the Senate President…

“Wonders will never end” as a physically-challenged beggar in Lagos turned to robbery to make it fast. Godwin Fawehinmi, the street beggar was at the weekend arrested by detectives attached to Area M Police Command, Idimu, Egbeda area of Lagos State for allegedly being in possession of different types of guns. The suspect who is crippled usually begs for alms on the streets on a daily basis. However, it came to many as a surprise when a gun was recovered from him. After a thorough search of his bag, the police discovered a locally-made gun in it. Several guns, according…