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Nigeria’s Minister of transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said that the federal government is doing everything possible to reverse the unemployment rate in the country. He spoke when a delegation from Dudley College of Technology, United Kingdom in partnership with the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Abuja. “Let me first welcome you to Nigeria and say to you that the Government of Nigeria is doing everything possible to eradicate unemployment, we are creating jobs and engaging the youth at various levels of skills acquisition. We have improved on our railway transportation and you can imagine the number of youth that have been engaged in the project, same thing in other sectors. “When I was a governor, I insisted on free education, because I believe that is the key,” he said. Leader of the delegation, Chidi Obilor, Nigeria Team Leader, Dudley College of Technology UK, explained the institution’s ...

Whether you just went through a gruelling workout session or you just consumed a large bulb of onions, chances are there has been a time that you’ve been the person responsible for the stinky odour in the room. A lot of the times, taking a shower, spraying a deodorant or brushing your teeth can remedy the situation. All these are however not enough in other situations because your body odour can indicate certain health conditions. As a matter of fact, some diseases produce unique and distinct smells. You may wonder which fumes you should pay attention to, here are five common body odours that might signal a serious health condition and what you should do about the stench. Smelly Feet And Athlete’s Foot If you have difficulty fighting off a funky and smelly whiff from your shoes, you may have a fungal infection. More so, if you have dry, scaly skin around your toes, redness, and blisters, there’s a possibility you have athlete’s foot. The funky smell maybe caused...

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South Korea is preparing to shut down cryptocurrency exchanges in the country, its justice minister warned Thursday, sending prices of bitcoin and other virtual units into a tailspin. Bitcoin A series of measures have failed to curb overheated virtual currency speculation in the country and Justice Minister Park Sang-Ki said it would be “devastating if the bubble bursts”. The ministry is preparing legislation that basically bans any transactions based on a virtual currency through the trading floor,” he told journalists. Authorities had “grave concerns” over the craze and were “aiming to close virtual currency exchanges” in the country, he said. It has started to resemble gambling and speculation,” Park added. The hyper-wired South has emerged as a hotbed for cryptocurrency trading, accounting for some 20 percent of global bitcoin transactions — about 10 times the country’s share of the world economy. Park’s remarks sent bitcoin prices plunging 18 percent on South K...

England have arranged to host Nigeria and Costa Rica in warm-up friendlies ahead of the 2018 World Cup in June. Gareth Southgate’s side will take on Nigeria at Wembley on June 2 and then Costa Rica at Elland Road five days later, before heading off for the tournament in Russia. Taking home games on the road is something England did in the build-up to Euro 2016, playing friendlies at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light and Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium. And England have played twice before at Leeds’ 37,890-capacity Elland Road – a 2-1 defeat to Italy in March 2002 and a 3-3 draw with Sweden in June 1995. Southgate’s men already have two friendlies scheduled for March, when they will take on Holland in Amsterdam (23rd) and Italy at Wembley (27th). Their World Cup campaign begins against Tunisia in Volgograd on June 18, and they then play debutants Panama in Nizhny Novgorod on June 24 before concluding the group stage against Belgium four days later in Kaliningra...

The internet users increased marginally to 94.8 million in November, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said. The NCC made this disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for November 2017 on its website on Tuesday in Abuja. According to the data, Airtel, MTN and Glo gained more internet subscribers during the month, while 9mobile was the big loser. The data also showed that overall, internet users increased by to 94, 818,553 in November from 93,887,184 in October showing an increase of 931, 369. The data breakdown revealed that MTN gained 428, 596 new internet users increasing its subscription in November to 33,426,931 from 32,998,335 in October. It showed that 9mobile lost 180, 044 internet users in November decreasing its subscription to 11,407.180 as against October when it recorded 11,587,224 in October. It said Airtel gained the most with 632, 506 new internet users in November amounting to 23, 074,163 users as against 22,...

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, on Thursday maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari is “openly encouraging and protecting” Fulani herdsmen killing Nigerians. The former Minister stressed that the president was rationalizing herdsmen “genocidal slaughter and mass murder.” Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, urged Nigerians to rise up and defend themselves from Fulani terrorists “indulging in a “bloodfest.” In a tweet via his social media handle, the former Minister wrote: “Yesterday it was Benue today it is Taraba. The Fulani terrorists are indulging in a bloodfest of gargantuan proportions whilst the Buhari govt. openly encourages and protects them and attempts to rationalise their genocidal slaughter and mass murder. Time to defend ourselves!” There have been several attacks on residents of Benue State in recent weeks by Fulani herdsmen, a situation that has drawn condemnations from a cross section of Nigerians. ...

Chelsea manager, Antonio Conte, has rued his side’s wastefulness in front of goal, after their 0-0 draw with Arsenal in their Carabao Cup semi-final tie on Wednesday. Four days after the Blues drew goalless at Norwich City, they were unable to find a way past a much-changed Gunners side. “We shot 20 times. We created chances to score, but we didn’t take them. “I think in the last period we must be more clinical, better offensively. Otherwise, if you don’t score, if you’re lucky the game finishes in a draw. “After Norwich it’s the second 0-0 in a row. We have to reflect on this and try to improve during training sessions and try to improve in this situation. “Honestly, I think you must be worried if you don’t create chances to score and it becomes very difficult to score. This team in every game creates chances to score. “This season maybe we’re a bit unlucky. We’re not so good to take these chances. My speech is not for the strikers. For example, ...

The World Bank forecasts that economic growth in Nigeria would edge up to at least 2.5 per cent in 2018. This is contained in World Bank’s January 2018 Global Economic Prospect report launched on Tuesday in Washington DC, United States. Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to grow by 2.8 per cent in 2019 and 2020, while the forecast shows that global economic growth will go up to 3.1 per cent in the year 2018. According to the bank, growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to continue to rise to 3.2 per cent in 2018 and to 3.5 per cent in 2019, on the back of firming commodity prices and gradually strengthening domestic demand. However, the report showed that growth would remain below pre-crisis averages, partly reflecting a struggle in larger economies to boost private investment. “South Africa is forecast to tick up to 1.1 per cent growth in 2018 from 0.8 per cent in 2017. “The recovery is expected to solidify, as improving business ...

TECNO, a premier mobile phone brand under TRANSSION HOLDINGS, has released its first frameless full-screen display smartphone – TECNO CAMON CM. The device is the latest in the CAMON Series family and reemphasises the brand’s knack for designing high-end smartphones with sophisticated cameras. While chronicling the brand’s growth and sheer market dominance, Eric Liu, Brand Manager of TECNO Mobile, Nigeria highlighted the company’s efforts to make revolutionary smartphones that will usher smartphone enthusiasts into an era of endless possibilities on the mobile devices and exceptional photography experiences. In his words, “the smartphone has been reinvented and OEMs globally are always on the lookout for the next big thing to talk about. At TECNO, we take pride in our ability to understand and meet our consumers’ needs, and eventually surpass their expectations.” With the CAMON CM, TECNO has delivered a very stylish full-screen display smartphone. The fullvie...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday accused the British Broadcasting Corporation, Cable Network News, Al Jazeera and other foreign media of conspiracy of silence in the reportage of killings by herdsmen in most Nigerian communities. kjh The group also blamed the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration for taking the continuous killings of the Fulani herdsmen as normal. IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement said the media houses’ under reportage of the killings was part of the international conspiracy to subdue non-Muslims. IPOB, however, condemned the recent killings in Rivers and Benue states, adding that the group wondered why the Federal Government was reluctant to deploy soldiers in Benue, Taraba and Kaduna states where herdsmen had killed scores of people. It said, “The killing of the innocent has become the norm under this present All Progressives Congress government led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari. “More s...

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in says his US counterpart, Donald Trump, “deserves big credit” for talks between South and North Korea. The talks, held on Tuesday, were the first in two years and led to the announcement that North Korea would send a delegation to the Olympics in Pyeongchang later this year. Mr Moon said he wanted to show Mr Trump his gratitude. The US president tweeted a week ago that he had brought the talks about. He said he had done so by being “firm, strong and willing to commit our total ‘might’ against the North”.Mr Moon told reporters on Wednesday: “I think President Trump deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks. “It could be a resulting work of the US-led sanctions and pressure,” he said. Later on Wednesday, a lone North Korean representative arrived at the International Olympic Committee headquarters in Switzerland to formalise the agreement to send athletes to the 2018 Games. BBC correspondents in Seoul say Mr...

FEARS of possible embarrassment, as one security source put it, from the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was responsible for the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo from the mega rally of the Al Progressives Congress, APC, at the Umuahia Township Stadium on Tuesday. “The message to the President was clear,” the security source continued “ he had to stay away. Umuahia would not be a good place for the President to appear after the events of September.” He was making a veiled reference to the military invasion of the home of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu on 15 September 2017. Nnamdi and his parents have neither been seen, nor heard from since the invasion. IPOB might have dispersed after the invasion, but its members still demand for the whereabouts of the IPOB leader, his parents and others arrested on that night. A court case between the Federal Government and Kanu has been stalled over the demand of IPOB lawyers that they needed to kn...

The Tiv Area Traditional Council, TATC, has told President Muhammadu Buhari that he would not get a single vote in the state in 2019. They said if “he loves his political future,” he should put a lasting solution to the ongoing killings in the state by Fulani herdsmen. The pan-cultural organisation gave the warning while rejecting the decision by the Federal Government to designate cattle colonies in different parts of the country. Speaking on Tuesday, the legal adviser of TATC, Chief Edward Ashiekaa, also disclosed that the orgnisation has concluded plans to report to the global community and International Criminal Court, ICC, the atrocities of Fulani herdsmen, including the recent killings of natives in Benue State. Ashiekaa said, “Of course, Buhari is a Fulani man, he has cattle. But if he loves his political future, he should tackle this matter and bring a solution once and for all because Benue state voted massively for him (in 2015); now, if he contests agai...

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Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has disclosed how Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State can end the menace of Fulani herdsmen in his state. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chieftain said Ortom must leave the All Progressives Congress, APC, for him to effectively tackle the Fulani herdsmen in his state. In a tweet via his social media handle, the former Minister said the governor must also stop worshiping President Muhammadu Buhari. According to the PDP Chieftain, the ruling “APC belongs to the Miyetti Allah, to the Fulani militants and their cows.” He wrote: “If Gov. Ortom of Benue state is really ready to take on the Fulani herdsmen in his state as he claims then the first thing that he needs to do is to leave the APC and stop worshipping Buhari. APC belongs to Miyetti Allah, to the Fulani militants and to their cows.” Recall that Ortom had confirmed that at least 20 people were killed after suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked commu...

A former Google engineer fired after he asserted in a memo that biological causes were behind tech industry gender inequality sued his former employer on Monday, saying he was discriminated against as a white man with conservative political views. James Damore last year caused an uproar in Silicon Valley and beyond when he wrote the internal memo, which later became public. Google said he had perpetuated gender stereotypes and fired him in August. In the months since, his firing has become a popular cause among right-leaning U.S. bloggers, and Damore hired a Republican Party official as his attorney. Damore and another white male former Google engineer, David Gudeman, filed the lawsuit as a proposed class action in Santa Clara County Superior Court in California. The lawsuit alleges workplace discrimination and retaliation. Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc based in Mountain View, California, said in a statement: “We look forward to defending against Mr. Damore’s laws...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has fixed March 9 to 17 for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The Registrar of the board, Ishaq Oloyede, said this at a meeting with stakeholders on Tuesday. The theme of the meeting is “Strategic planning on the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation.” Mr. Oloyede said the mock examination initially scheduled to hold between January 22 and 24 has been moved to the first week in February due to the ongoing strike by non-teaching staff of universities. “We are unable to access our CBT centres because most of them are in the universities and non teaching staff are on strike,” he said. “Regarding the sale of forms, about 10 per cent of the expected candidates have registered, the number of candidates that have registered now is about 283,319,” he said. The registrar said the prohibition of materials is applicable to candidates, supervisors and examiners. ...

Former president Olusegun Onbasanjo yesterday said the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua dismantled structures he had put in place to check and curtail corruption. He stated that the removal of pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, was the beginning of Yar’Adua’s mistake. He noted that Yar’Adua had allowed former Delta State governor, James Ibori, to push for the replacement of Ribadu, who he alleged “was poisoned but eventually survived”. Obasanjo said these in a chat with Thisday. He, however, expressed regretted the amount of money required in politics nowadays. “Politics in Nigeria has been dominated by people that have stolen money, that have godfathers or even drug barons, the type we have now at the National Assembly. “So youths should pool resources to become politically active in order to replace the present crop of leaders and provide better alternatives. “There must be far reaching reforms to...

In furtherance of his efforts to stem the tide of crime and violence in Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike has given marching orders to security agencies to hunt down cult leaders terrorizing the state. Governor Wike in a comprehensive list released during his state wide broadcast on the killing of Don Wanny, said security forces should not spare any of the listed suspects. He said the suspects have refused to take advantage of the Amnesty offer of the state government thereby causing mayhem in different Local Government areas of the state. The Rivers state Governor also announced a twenty million naira bounty for anyone who offers information about the whereabouts of the suspects. Wike in the broadcast further blamed the All Progressive Congress led by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi for allegedly dissuading some cult groups from accepting the state’s amnesty. He also accused Amaechi of politicizing the security situation in the state just as he...