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Nigeria is said to have spent N26 million on imports of wooden toothpicks from China and Germany in the last three years. This is despite the inclusion of toothpicks on the dollar access prohibition list by the Federal Government within the same period. Yet, the government said toothpicks could be produced locally so there was no need spending foreign exchange importing them. Data sourced from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that Nigeria imported wooden toothpicks worth N11.46 million from China in 2016. This value excluded the amount spent on the import of rubber toothpicks, which are not too…

A consultant with Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA) in Ebonyi State died Tuesday night during the Super Eagles and Argentina football match. Canice Ebirim, the consultant, died during the heat of the match. Emeka Ogah, FETHA Chief Medical Director who confirmed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Wednesday said he received the news of his death at about 9 p.m. while the match was going on. Ogah said “Ebirim’s friend said that the deceased started moving suspiciously and solicited for assistance which made him intervene and take him (Ebirim) to the hospital,” he said. “Efforts made to revive him…

Super Eagles Coach Gernot Rohr says his players lost because they lack the big match experience. Nigeria’s Super Eagles lost to Argentina 2-1 after a tension-soaked World Cup match in Russia on Tuesday night. In another Twitter handle on Wednesday, Rohr wrote “World Cup: My young men will be ready by 2022.” The team is being expected in Nigeria Thursday from Russia. Meanwhile, Argentina that qualified for Round 16 of the mundial will trade tackles with France on Sunday.

Egyptian football buff, Abdel Rahim Mohamed died of heart attack after Egypt’s 2-1 defeat to Saudi Arabia in the ongoing World Cup on Monday. Rahim was reported to have become increasingly emotional watching the game at TV studios in Cairo. When he was due to analyse Egypt’s 2-1 defeat to Saudi Arabia, he suffered heart attack and was rushed to hospital. In a report by Egypt Today, Mohamed taken to hospital by his son after the defeat was pronounced dead.

A Catholic priest has expressed fear over the loud-mouthed Nigeria’s secular status considering the roles played by any government in power in the country in undermining such constitutional conferral. Rev. Fr. Thomas Ebong in an interaction with Straightnews recalled that “Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari recently flew out to Istanbul for the D-8 meeting. I wonder how many Nigerians understand the meaning of D-8?” On October 17, 2017, Buhari arrived at Istanbul, capital of Turkey for the D-8 meeting. Ebong, a retired Dean of the School of Communication Arts, Akwa Ibom Sate Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, Ikot Ekpene, queried “In the Nigerian…

The Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu, Wednesday, said the National Water Bill before the National Assembly may soon be passed into law in a few months. Adamu, who made this known at a one-day National Consultative Conference on Water Use Regulations, Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Framework, organised by the Nigeria Integrated Water Resources Management Commission, NIWRMC, said the bill when passed into law, would benefit all Nigerians and also positively impact on the economy of the nation. He also explained that the bill was in the best interest of all parts of the country, contrary to misinterpretations designed…

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has said violation of human rights in the country was unacceptable. According to him, torture is a clear assault on the inherent dignity and fundamental freedoms of persons. Malami, who was represented by Mr. Dayo Apata, the Solicitor General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, stated this at the Commemoration of the 2018 UN International Day Against Torture in Nigeria-in Support of Victims of Torture in Abuja. In a press statement by his Special Adviser, Comrade Salihu Othman Isah, Malami added that  the…

Members of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee probing the excessive electricity charges being levied on Nigerian consumers by Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs, Thursday, told stakeholders that power distribution operators in Nigeria were fraudsters. This came on a day the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, revealed at a one-day investigative hearing organised by the adhoc committee, chaired by Rep Ajibola Israel Famurewa, that there was no record of metered customers and estimated billed customers. According to the apex bank, this is despite the disbursement of over N488 billion with an interest rate of 10 per cent, against the market rate…

Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Senate President and the Senate, Wednesday, shunned a suit seeking to quash the May 9 resolution of the Senate which declared the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, unfit to retain his position. This is even as the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court headed by Justice John Tsoho, Wednesday fixed September 25 to deliver judgment on the matter. Neither the Senate nor Saraki sent a legal representative or filed any brief in response to the suit which the IGP lodged before the the high court to challenge the powers of the Respondents to pass…

Germany, the defending champion, is out of the World Cup, the fourth defending champion in the last five tournaments to be eliminated in the group stage. The four-time champions lost to South Korea 2-0 Wednesday, allowing a pair of injury-time goals while knowing a 1-0 victory would have been enough to advance because of the result in the other group match. Germany ended up last in Group F while Sweden and Mexico advanced to the round of 16. South Korea was also eliminated despite the victory. It was the first time Germany has been eliminated in the first round since…