Author: Nigeriacurrent

The African Road to China By Owei Lakemfa

The African leaders journey  to Beijing, for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) holding from September 3-4, 2018, actually began fifty three years ago. That was at the infancy of our independence. In 1960 alone, seventeen African countries had gained independence. Tanzania became independent in 1961 and Zambia, four years later. Both faced the same […]

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2019: Youths Adopt Fela Durotoye for President

Consensus has been reached among the array of youths jostling to change the lingering political status quo by ensuring that a youth emerge as winner in the coming presidential election slated for next year. Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and presidential aspirant on the platform of […]

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Ronaldo ‘Furious’ At Losing UEFA Player Of Year To Modric

Cristiano Ronaldo was hopping mad at losing out to Croatia star Luka Modric for the UEFA Player of the Year, Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri revealed on Friday. Real Madrid and Croatia midfield star Modric beat his former teammate Ronaldo and Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah to the prize which was awarded on Thursday in Monaco. “Yesterday he […]

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Presidency: APC Adopts Direct Primaries

All is now set for the for the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party hierarchy  adopted direct primary election to select its presidential candidate for the 2019 election. This was part of the resolutions reached at the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting which held on Thursday at the APC national secretariat in Abuja, […]

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Man kills lover for rituals

Olusola Akindele, a 42 year old bricklayer, is now cooling his heels in police net after he was arrested by the men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing his lover, simply identified as Iya Anu, for ritual purposes. It was gathered that the suspect allegedly invited the deceased to his rented apartment […]

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Ghana May Lead Pressure on Prosperity Churches to Pay Tax

Piqued by the rising trend of Ultra-rich churches across Africa in recent times, there have been calls for the religious institutions to start paying taxes to the governments since they have enough money to throw around. In Nigeria, Civil groups have lent their voices to such cause too but nothing has been said in that regards from […]

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Police Sergeant Looses Life to Mob in Lagos

A mob protesting the alleged murder of a youth today attacked a police patrol team in Ogba area of Lagos, killing a Sergeant and vandalising the patrol vehicle. It was learnt that the protesters also attempted to raze the Area ‘G’ Command headquarters in Ogba but they were resisted by a combined team of policemen. […]

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MTN Denies Claim on Illegal Repatriation of $8.1B by CBN

MTN Nigeria has refuted the claims by the Central Bank of Nigeria that it illegally, in collusion with four Nigerian banks repatriated $8.1billion from its Nigerian operations to offshore investors. The CBN said the remittances between 2007 and 2015, in tranches of of 2.63 billion dollars, 1.766 billion dollars and 348 million dollars were done […]

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FULL TEXT: Why I Want To Be President – Saraki

SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY (DR.) ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI, CON, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT A DIALOGUE WITH YOUTH AND YOUNG ASPIRANTS HELD AT SHERATON HOTEL, ABUJA, ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018. PROTOCOL. 1. Let me say, once again, how wonderful it is to see so many talented and purposeful […]

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BREAKING: VIDEO: Saraki Declares For Presidency

Senate President Bukola Saraki has declared his intention to run for presidency in the 2019 general elections. He made the declaration on Thursday while delivering a keynote address at a dialogue for youths and young aspirants in Abuja. He said, “I hereby announce my intention to run for the office of President of the Federal […]

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