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Has The National Youth Service Program Truly Outlived Its Use?
Since 1973, university and polytechnic graduates have been required to compulsorily take part in the National Youth Service Corps Programme (NYSC) for one year. This is known as the national service year. Following the bill to amend the 1999 constitution by the Nigerian Senate, the House Of Representative have offered a new bill to permanently…
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Crypto: Nigeria Soon To Launch CryptoCurrency
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has announced the apex bank is in talks with the government to launch Nigeria’s digital currency. Emefiele disclosed this during the 279th monetary policy rate (MPR) meeting held on Tuesday, May 26 in Abuja. The news was a response to questions relating to the crackdown on…
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Mali Military Detain President, Prime Minister And Defence Minister
Multiple sources have reported the forceful detention of Mali’s interim President Bah Ndaw alongside the Prime Minister and Defence Minister by military officers on Monday, May 24, 2021. Just months after the previous president was ousted through a military coup, the military in Mali have struck again with the detention of the members of the…
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Volcano Eruption In DR Congo Leaves 5,000 People Homeless
At least 5,000 people have been sent fleeing from their homes and 15 people dead after torrents of lava poured into their villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mount Nyiragongo erupted for the first time in nearly two decades, running steaming lava down the hillside towards the eastern city of Goma and…
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Crypto Crash Abates As Bitcoin Bounces Back To $42,000
On Wednesday, May 19, 2020, the flagship cryptocurrency, bitcoin, fell to more than three-month lows, dropping to about $30,000 at one point for a pullback of more than 30%. Bitcoin crash wiped out more than $500 billion in value from the coin’s peak market value, erasing all the gains it clocked up following Tesla Inc.’s…
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Southern Governors Ban Open Grazing In Their Regions
17 governors in Nigeria have banned open grazing in their states. The decision was reached in a bid to curb the frequent grazing related conflicts in Nigeria. As individual attempts failed in the past months, these 17 Nigerian governors formed a forum to jointly agree on a ban that would protect the citizens of their…
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Boko Haram Leader Feared Dead In Clash With ISWAP Fighters
The dreaded leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, has been seriously wounded or maybe feared dead after opting to commit suicide to avoid being captured during clashes with rival ISWAP jihadists in northern Nigeria. Shekau’s Boko Haram faction has battled with the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters in what can…
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Special Report: 2021 Timeline Of Mass Shooting In America
Best described as America’s bloody weekend, the US has been rocked by back to back mass shooting across the different states in the country. In 2021 alone, at least 30 people have been killed in mass shootings around the United States. Numbers the government has begun actions to curb with President Joe Biden’s announced six executive…
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Senate To Begin Public Review Of The Constitution
The Nigerian Senate has announced its new plan to involve the general public in the review of the 1999 Constitution. The two-day public hearing which would commence on May 26 and end on May 27, would allow the nation’s citizens to air their opinions and ideas that would be implemented in the reviewed constitution, according…
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Thousands Displaced As Conflict Heightens In Burkina Faso
According to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), over 17,500 people in Burkina Faso have been displaced from their homes due to a series of attacks by unidentified armed groups that have killed not less than 45 people. Since the beginning of the year, several attacks by armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have been rising sharply in…