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Chief Audu Ogbe, the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, has revealed that the Federal government is facilitating the procurement of additional 40 large-scale rice mills to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production by 2018. Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday at a workshop themed “Big Boost for Agro Diversification and Export.’’ Ogbeh said that the Integrated Rice Mills (IRMs) of the Ministry had increased the rice milling capacity in the country. He said that the Ministry’s new goal was to attain self-sufficiency in food production and annually…

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Yahya Jammeh, the controversial Gambian leader, on Thursday submitted his candidacy to seek a fifth term in December’s presidential election, saying he would listen only to God for guidance in governing. Jammeh, 51, took power in a bloodless coup in 1994 and has run the country with an iron fist ever since, surviving successive coup attempts by consolidating his power at every level of society. After submitting the required documentation to the electoral commission, Jammeh told its chairman: “No matter what people say about me, I am not moved… I…

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Brigadier General Mansur Dan-Ali (retd), the Minister of Defence, has appealed to Nigerians for understanding in the anti-terrorism war, pleading with them to give the military more time to completely stamp out insurgency in the north eastern part of the country. Dan-Ali’s plea is coming on the heels of the killing of Col. Abu Ali, and six other soldiers during a shoot-out with the terror group, Boko Haram, in Borno State. The development had renewed tremendous agitation and pressure by Nigerians on government to intensify efforts to rid the country…

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Following the announcement of Trump’s victory, Nigerians took to social media to question Soyinka about whether he would honour his pledge of cutting his green card. The Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Wednesday, stated that he will not destroy his United States’ residency permit just yet; while he warned that the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race could jeopardize U.S. support in Nigeria’s fight against Boko Haram. In an interview, Soyinka stated that Trump’s ‘bunker mentality’ could see the U.S. withdraw support for counter-terrorism operations in West…

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Prophet TB Joshua, the general overseer and founder of The Synagogue Church of All Nations, who prophesied that Hillary Clinton would win the US presidential election has removed the prediction from his Facebook account. TB Joshua had told his congregation on Sunday that he “saw” a woman winning. A section of that ‘prediction’ which was posted on his Facebook page is no longer available. It said, “Ten days ago, I saw the president of America with a narrow win… What I frankly saw was a woman.” Reactions TB Joshua done shit…

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The Kwara state Governor, Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed has dissolved 16 LG councils for being unable to meet their statutory responsibilities to the people. The governor justified the councils’ dissolution in his formal notification to the state House of Assembly, adding that they failed to execute any meaningful projects in the last three years and were unable to pay workers’ salaries for months. According to the governor’s message to the state House of Assembly read by the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Mathew Okedare, who presided over Tuesday plenary, Ahmed accused the 16…

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Following a motion by Sen. Duro Faseyi (PDP-Ekiti), the Senate on Tuesday resolved to invite the Minister of Labour and Employment to provide insight into government’s roadmap towards tackling unemployment in the country. The Senator called on the President, Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on unemployment with a view to confront the challenge “frontally and radically”. “The economic recession which has hit the country would integrally multiply the level of unemployment in the country as more companies have started considering downsizing in order to cut cost and…

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