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Nigeria taps oil wealth to train 5,000 students abroad
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 16, 2025
Nigeria is set to send around 5,000 students abroad for postgraduate studies in 2025/2026, leveraging its oil wealth to plug long-standing skills and competency gaps in the energy sector. This comes as the Petroleum Technology Development Fund...
Suspended Chief Justice Torkornoo’s $10 Million ECOWAS Showdown Tests Ghana’s Democratic Pillars
Joy FM
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July 16, 2025
The unprecedented lawsuit mounted by suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo against the Republic of Ghana at the ECOWAS Court of Justice is more than a personal quest for vindication—it's a high-stakes constitutional drama unfolding on both...
Nigeria’s current account balance to slow on weaker oil production
Business Day
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July 15, 2025
Nigeria’s current account (CA) balance is projected to decline by 31.4 percent to $11.8 billion in 2025 after it reached $17.2 billion last year, its highest in about five years. This bearish outlook is driven by weaker domestic oil production,...
Popular Actor Dies While Sleeping
Naija News
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July 16, 2025
Naija News learnt that Kaff, who is recognised for playing keyboardist Viv Savage in the 1984 mockumentary ‘This Is Spinal Tap’, died on Monday at the age of 79. Confirming the demise, his bandmates from ‘Mutual of Alameda’s Wild Kingdom’ in a...
Minister Sets Think Home Agenda for Diaspora Nigerians
This Day
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July 16, 2025
From Tony Ichekuin Owerri Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu has challenged Nigerians based abroad to prioritise channeling of skills, resources, and innovative spirit acquired abroad back to their...
Nigerians deserve better medical care access, good living
Daily Trust
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July 16, 2025
Nigeria’s poverty status is well known. That we are now one of the poorest countries in terms of various indices is a fact, but quite unfortunate. Yet, Nigerians cannot continue to wallow in abject poverty, while there are resources, if well...
Nigeria, Zambia clash tops quarterfinals duels in Morocco
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 16, 2025
The eight teams for the quarterfinals of the ongoing Morocco 2024 CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations are set for the race to the semifinals, but none of the clashes comes tougher than Friday’s battle between Nigeria and Zambia. The teams in the...
'Tinubu dey Work'- Portable lauds President Tinubu (VIDEO)
Nigerian Eye
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July 16, 2025
Street-hop singer, Portable has once again voiced his support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This time in a video where he dismissed critics and praised the president’s ongoing efforts. In the video, Portable could be heard expressing confidence...
You can't satisfy Nigerians– Katsina Gov, Radda reveals what Buhari told him
Nigerian Eye
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July 16, 2025
Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has disclosed some of his conversations with the late former President Muhammadu Buhari while he was alive. Radda recalled that Buhari advised him to do his best as a leader because he could not satisfy...
Nigeria’s Okoye Shines At Kigali International Runway
Leadership
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July 14, 2025
A Nigerian influencer and model, Nora Mmesoma Okoye, put up an excellent performance in Kigali, Rwanda at the just-concluded 100 Most Notable Africans Leadership and Business Summit 2025. Okoye, an executive public relations assistant with Amity...
Nigeria’s ex-President Muhammadu Buhari dies in London aged 82
Al Jazeera
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Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari has died in London at the age of 82 following a long illness. “President Buhari died today in London at about 4:30pm (15:30 GMT) following a prolonged illness,” President Bola Tinubu’s spokesperson...
Buhari Laid to Rest in Daura Amid Political Reflections on APC’s Future
The Herald
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July 16, 2025
The remains of former President Muhammadu Buhari were laid to rest on Tuesday in his hometown of Daura, Katsina State, with full military honours. The solemn funeral ceremony drew dignitaries from across Nigeria and beyond, marking the end of an...
Passing On of Former Nigerian President at London Hospital Part of “tide of medical tourism”: Catholic Archbishop
ACI Africa
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July 15, 2025
That the immediate former President of Africa’s most populous nation had to fly out of the country for medication is an “anomaly” because it “does not only drain the purses of those who can afford it, but more importantly, it also deepens the pain...
VISA policy: Tinubu tasks Nigerians to respect immigration regulations of host countries
Daily Trust
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July 16, 2025
The federal government has reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining and strengthening the longstanding and cordial diplomatic relations with the Governments of the United States of America and the United Arab Emirates. As part of its commitment,...
Afenifere Rejects Constitutional Review, Demands New Nigerian Constitution Reflecting True Federalism
Sahara Reporters
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The Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere Group in the United Kingdom and Europe, known as UK Afenifere, has rejected the ongoing constitutional review exercise spearheaded by Nigeria’s National Assembly, insisting that only a brand-new...
US sends third-country deportees under secrecy to small African kingdom
WNDU - Indiana
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July 16, 2025
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
People No Longer Interested In Dying For Nigeria – Tonye Princewill
Naija News
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July 16, 2025
Speaking during an appearance on Arise TV, Princewill lamented that Nigerians are no longer willing to die for the country because they feel the country is unwilling to sacrifice for them. He stated that he often tells young people that one of the...
China looks to Africa as testing ground for global roll-out of yuan
South China Morning Post
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July 16, 2025
China appears to be positioning Africa as a testing ground for internationalisation of the yuan as it seeks to expand the currency’s global use and break the dominance of the US dollar. During a recent meeting in Cairo, the central banks of China...
The Shame Of A Nation: Buhari Returned As Cargo (Nigeria: A Nation That Mourns Its Destroyers), By Fẹ̀mi Akọ̀mọ̀làfẹ̀
Sahara Reporters
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My Yoruba people say, Ilé àiyé ilé asan, which translates into “The world is a transient/empty dwelling.” In this column, we have done our best to drum it into the ears of African mis-rulers that power is transient and everything in the world is...
IPOB Denies Being Lawfully Proscribed, Challenges Nigerian Government’s Claims
The Herald
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July 15, 2025
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has refuted ongoing claims by the Nigerian government that it has been lawfully proscribed as a terrorist organisation, insisting that no valid legal ruling justifies such classification. In a statement...