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Daily Archives: March 29, 2019

Ghanaian-based health startup, mPharma to buy Kenya’s second largest pharmacy chain

Ghanaian-based startup, mPharma to buy Kenya’s second largest pharmacy chain, Haltons for an undisclosed fee Techpoint.Africa [...]

March 29, 2019 Technology Business & StartUps

Nigerian motorcycle on-demand company, Gokada loses CEO in apparent shake-up

Gokada CEO has stepped down from the company in what appears to be a shake-up amidst alleged bad blood Techpoint.Africa [...]

March 29, 2019 Technology Business & StartUps
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WOMAN WITH TWO WOMBS GIVES BIRTH TWICE, 26 DAYS AFTER THE FIRST CHILD

A 20-year-old Bangladeshi woman has given birth to twins, 26 days after giving birth to her first child. A gynecologist at Ad-Din hospital in Dhaka, Sheila Poddar, said Arifa Sultana gave birth to a boy in late February. According to [...]

March 29, 2019 International
Daddy Freeze has slammed US based Nigerian singer, Waconzy for calling him a demon following the troll campaign against Oge Okoye over her visit to Pastor Alph Lukau

Daddy Freeze Slams Waconzy For Calling Him A Demon

Daddy Freeze has slammed US based Nigerian singer, Waconzy for calling him a demon following the troll campaign against Oge Okoye over her visit to Pastor Alph Lukau.Waconzy who dropped an advice to Christians, told them that it is their [...]

March 29, 2019 entertainment
Delta Says Public Schools' Pupils Shouldn't Pay Fees - Education

Delta Says Public Schools’ Pupils Shouldn’t Pay Fees – Education

The Federal Government had in 1999 introduced the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme to provide free primary and junior secondary education for all. Still, the cost of attending public schools varies by state such that while Ekiti and many other [...]

March 29, 2019 Education

Carrot is helping people protect their loved ones through simplified will and estate planning

The Lagos-based technology startup is working to make estate planning easy and seamless for individuals towards protecting their loved ones, in the event of the inevitable. Techpoint.Africa [...]

March 29, 2019 Technology Business & StartUps
salat

Ruling On Wearing Shoes/Sandals When Performing Salat – Islam for Muslims

Question: I watched a video on Facebook seeing people praying with their shoes on. Please, I need an authentic Quran verse or Hadith that permit this. Answer: All praise be to Allah.Praying with shoes (sander, slippers) is allowed in Islam, [...]

March 29, 2019 Religion
Godswill Akpabio

Akpabio: I Was Called Killer Herdsman By Men Of God After I Dumped PDP For APC

The Senator representing Akwa Ibom north-west, Godswill Akpabio, has revealed that some clergymen in Akwa Ibom State called him a herdsman after he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).Akpabio dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in August 2018, to [...]

March 29, 2019 Government and politics
Reno Omokri

Reno: APC Throws Away Okorocha Like Used Sanitary Pad. Amaechi, Oshiomhole Next

Ex-aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has reacted to Buhari and APC action for neglecting the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, who has been denied a certificate of return as a senator-elect. According to Punch, he was neglected [...]

March 29, 2019 Government and politics
‘Next Level’

FG unveils Micro pension plan for 80 million informal sector workers

President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a Micro Pension Plan for people operating in the informal sector of the economy, even as he promised to halt the rot in the nation’s pension system. The President, while unveiling the pension plan on [...]

March 29, 2019 Economy
Gombe

Gombe councillor jailed for vote-buying

Justice Sa’ad Moh’d of the Gombe State High Court has convicted a councillor in Bolari East Local Government Area, Gombe, Ishiyaku Garba, of vote-buying. Garba was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on three counts  bordering on bribery. [...]

March 29, 2019 Government and politics
Man in EFCC net over N343.8m investment scam

Man in EFCC net over N343.8m investment scam

A 40-year-old man, Ayodele Olaniyi, is currently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office, for allegedly duping some people of N343.8m investment scam. Olaniyi was arrested following a petition addressed to the acting Chairman [...]

March 29, 2019 Economy
Tinubu

Mixed reactions as Tinubu urges FG to revisit power sector privatisation

Stakeholders in the nation’s power sector have expressed divergent views on the call by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, for the Federal Government to revisit the privatisation of the sector. The Federal Government handed over [...]

March 29, 2019 Government and politics