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WhatsApp finally launches video calls: Feature will come to Android, iOS and Windows Phone in the coming days .WhatsApp adopted end-to-end encryption this year for its messages .Same encryption will be used on the new video calling feature, they said .The company wants to make video calls accessible for people worldwide Improvements in phone cameras, battery life and bandwidth has …

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  Dayo Emmanuel   A report has revealed that a total of N1,354,132,400,000.00 was allegedly embezzled from the Nigerian coffers since the advent of democracy in 1999. The report, a product of in-depth research published in a document titled, “Justice or Impunity? High profile corruption cases crawling or gone to sleep,” by Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, gave the alarming figure allegedly …

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  Tayo Olanipekun Indiscriminate harvesting of forest produce will increase the level of poverty accompanied with food shortages in Nigeria and unless something drastic is done about it, the nation will miss out on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is owing to the illegal logging activities causing a yearly loss of 400,000 hectares of arable lands …

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Nigerian recession: Massive food production to the rescue? Dayo Emmanuel     As the US Dollar continues to gain against the Nigerian currency, the Naira, the effects on local goods and services are becoming unbearable for the common man. The exchange rates now standing between N485 and N500 for a Dollar in the last few days has been responsible for …

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The last few years in Nigeria have seen series of happenings in connection with  the female gender, especially the girl child. Consequently, they have revealed the girl child as a possible endangered species in the country and of course, sub Saharan Africa, where the list of factors affecting the development of the girl child seem to be elongating by the day. …

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Badia: still Lagos bursting “sex centre” Dayo Emmanuel Walking through the railway line in Ijora Badia, a Lagos slum located in Apapa-Iganmu Local Council Development, one may not need to be told how bad the area really is. Apart from the filthy atmosphere, coupled with the swampy nature of the environment, the community is a beehive of activities 24 hours …

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Minister of Finance,    Muda Yusuf, LCCI DG Adeosun Tax multiplicity as investment albatross The continued rise in the multiplicity of taxes in the domestic economy has become a major bane to going concerns. In this write-up Friday Ekeoba posit that the race to shore-up Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) by various tiers of government may be the albatross for investment growth in …

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  President  Buhari          Minister for Finance, Adeosun Economic growth as panacea for employment creation The growth of an economy, especially as it relates to the wellbeing of its citizenry, is best measured by the numbers of its productive class that are meaningfully employed. In this piece FRIDAY EKEOBA x-ray government claims to growth in the face of dwindling economic indicators. …

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Lagos, home to about 300,000 hawkers-Activist Dayo Emmanuel   “Politics is not about party affiliations, but about development.” These was an assertion of Comrade Biodun Aremu at the public presentation of Community Development Charter for Surulere Local Government Area of Lagos State, facilitated by media NGO, International Press Centre (IPC), recently. Aremu had asserted that there are about 300,000 youths …

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By Uzoma Ngozi “How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.” – Benjamin Disraeli, one-time British Prime Minister. “When your success hovers from one person to the other, it will definitely get to someone who will regard it as failure.”  – Michael Bassey Johnson, an uncommon Nigerian penman. In a publication titled, “Those Calling for Okonjo-Iweala’s Sack Are Detractors”, The …

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