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Lolo Chiamaka Ozoemenam and her husband Ozoemenam are distraught; they have lost their investments to a late-night fire outbreak on Thursday, Feb. 4 at a market known among locals as ‘Tipper Garage’, located in Gwarinpa Estate in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The fire incident was the second in less than a month in two different markets …
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A week after the closure of three key markets -Wuse market, UTC Shopping Complex and Murg Shopping Plaza – all in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, by authorities for failing to comply with the COVID-19 protocols, the markets have reopened with marketers and their customers still not observing the protocols for which the markets were shut down. …
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Traders at the Wuse and UTC markets in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja have expressed shock over the closure of the markets in the early hours of Tuesday by agents of the Federal Capital Territory Administration for violating COVID-19 protocols. While many expressed worries that their wares were perishable, others put the blame for the close of …
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Nigerian Government has announced the extension of the ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) integration exercise by eight weeks to April 6. In a bid to ensure telecoms subscribers are not deactivated, the ongoing National has been extended to April 6- eight weeks. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, at the Nigerian …
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Students of University of Abuja on Monday took to the street on the main campus of the university, in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja to protest the increase in their school fees imposed by the school management. They were demanding a reduction in the fees which were increased between 50 and 100 per cent. The students insisted …
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Peoples Gazette, an online news media firm, has been forced by the Nigerian Government to change its web address based on an unknown accusation. It was alleged that the government had conspired with telecommunications firms to deny a broad majority of its readers’ access to its news content. Since 2020 when it was founded, the …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday announced the first witness in its case against Aisha Alkali Wakil, also known as Mama Boko Haram, during proceedings at the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri. Wakil is known to have supported the Nigerian Government to end the fight against Boko Haram using her contacts with …
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Mohammed Adamu, Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, has said that community security outfits and members of vigilante groups were not allowed to have weapons with them even while on duty. “They are not to do police work because, constitutionally, they are not the police and they should not carry arms. Carrying arms will be an illegal …
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The rebuilding of the Kugbo furniture market is in progress following a recent fire incident. Many of the traders are on the verge of recovering from their losses, making do with what they have while waiting on the government for support. After the outbreak, rumours spread among the traders that the government was considering relocating …
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Borno state governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has flagged off the second phase of his administration’s N1 billion economic support for small business owners. This new phase will support small and medium business owners in three local government areas, Zulum said on Friday during a visit to Biu Local Government Area. The sum of N1 billion …
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The number of Nigeria’s investigative media outlets has just increased with the launch of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ). The online newspaper started reporting on Wednesday, Jan. 20, with the publication of the first of a three-part investigative series on the extrajudicial killing of End SARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate area last October. …
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Ugandans went to the polls on Thursday to vote in the East African country’s next president. Polling units are now closed and vote counting is ongoing. But the elections, conducted amid suspended access to the internet and repeated clampdown on the opposition, have already become incredibly controversial. The contest is between longtime incumbent Yoweri Museveni, …
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