Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 15:59
TEAM Nigeria has won its first gold medal at the ongoing Paris Paralympic Games after Onyinyechi Mark made history by breaking the tournament record in the women’s 61kg powerlifting category with a lift of 147kg.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 12:22
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[1] Launched in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is an ambitious plan to develop new trade relationships with the rest of the world. In Africa, this has meant providing the continent with infrastructure in exchange for raw materials
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 09/05/2024 - 20:38
BANDIT leader Bello Turji has published a daring video in which he has declared war on Hausa communities across northwest Nigeria warning that the Fulani will continue to wage war against them for being traitors and hypocrites.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 09/05/2024 - 18:46
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[1] India’s population recently overtook that of China. They now have 1.428bn people compared with China’s 1.425bn. However, India has not been caught napping as this population growth has been matched with concurrent economic growth
[2] India prepared for this moment by building industrial cities, wooing blue chip companies in their hundreds and achieving 10% annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates every year
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 18:45
BILLIONAIRE businessman Bill Gates has attributed the current precarious state of the Nigerian economy to the fact that taxation levels are too low thus limiting the amount of revenue available to the government.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 12:27
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[1] I for one have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft, the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the city to Britain
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/03/2024 - 12:21
MEMBERSHIP of the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) has surpassed 150 for the first time in the organisation's 20-year history after five new member were admitted by the executive committee this week.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/03/2024 - 11:33
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[1] One thing the British got spot on in Nigeria was the way they divided the country into 40 provinces, which today form the basis of our 36 states. One very important one however has been left out - Anioma State. I believe that if we create an Anioma State today, it will significantly increase Nigeria’s economic output
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 09/02/2024 - 11:36
TEAM Nigeria has picked up its first ,medal at the ongoing Paris Paralympics 2024 after Eniola Bolaji made history as the first African athlete ever to win a badminton medal at the tournament.
Early this morning, Eniola secured a bronze medal in para-badminton in the women’s singles SL3 category. She did so by defeating her Ukrainian opponent, Oksana Kozyna, in two straight sets of 21-9 and 21-9 to the delight of the travelling Nigerian contingent.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:34
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[1] Nigeria will boost generated electricity supply from the current 7,000MW to match South Africa’s 50,000MW
[2] His government will increase the kilometres of tarred roads in Nigeria from the current 200,000km to match South Africa’s 750,000km
[3] His government will increase the length of Nigeria’s railway network from the current 4,000km to match Pakistan’s 8,000km
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