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Youths at the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday staged a peaceful protest demanding removal of the party’s chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. The demonstration comes barely 24 hours to the national executive committee meeting of the party. The youths, under the aegis of Save APC and Democracy Youth Vanguard, carried placards with the inscriptions: ‘Audit APC Account Now’, No To Non-elective Convention’ and ‘APC Must Support Anti-corruption’. Spokesperson for the group, Mr. Peter Oyewole, said: “Since 2015, the budget of the APC has not been made public. Since 2015, the ruling party has not held a single meeting. These are enough for the removal of the national chairman. We demand the removal of Oyegun now. “We are also saying enough is enough to imposition of candidates at all level by the Oyegun-led national working committee. In any party where there is imposition, there cannot be fairness or equity. Imposition in the APC today is rubbis...

There are certain signs that point towards the fact that you are at serious risk of having a stroke. These are some of those signs. If you are above 40, you must read this. If you had seen anybody, with even a mild stroke, you will understand that this is not an illness you will wish your worst enemy. Most of my patients at the brink of strokes, were rescued by my medical teams, by just paying attention to the 10 under listed points. Prof Heidi Moawad has done a lot of research on stroke, he compiled 10 signs, that if observed will allow us to live happily ever after. How would you know if you were at the risk of a stroke? While there is no absolute way to know that, you will, or will not ever have a stroke in your lifetime, there are signs that indicate, that you are at high risk of stroke. The good news is that you can do something about every one of these signs, so as to significantly lower your stroke risk. Please Pay attention. 1) Your blood pressure is out of cont...

Russia has signed agreements with Nigeria to build and operate a nuclear power plant in the oil-rich West African nation that has a deficit of reliable power and faces security challenges by Islamist militants in the far northeast. Feasibility studies for the plant and a research center construction will include site screening, capacity, financing, and time frames of the projects, state-owned Russian nuclear company Rosatom said in an emailed statement. The nations in 2009 signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of the peaceful usage of nuclear technologies. Nigeria in 2015 was in talks with Rosatom to build as many as four nuclear power plants costing about $20 billion, the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission said at the time. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, distributes an average of 4,500 megawatts of electricity. Half the output of the Egbin power plant, the nation’s biggest, is lost because of inadequate transmission infrastructure, its chief officer ...

I woke up this morning, I ON my data, the first experience I got was that the network came up full. I replied my WhatsApp and Facebook messages, I surfed the web and twitter. I enter nairaland and read some news. Wow   its real today is Glo free data day. Share your experience... See photos below

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s quest to find oil in the northern part of the country shifted to the inland basins with the commencement of exploration activities in the Benue Trough. The Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Maikanti Baru, announced the commencement of the search during his visit to the Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Almakura, in Lafia on Thursday. The NNPC GMD said the visit was in line with the presidential directive to the corporation to resume oil exploration activities in some of the nation’s inland basins, including the Chad Basin and the Benue Trough. The search is coming a few months after the NNPC opened a new frontier for oil exploration in the Sokoto area. He said the presidential mandate was driven by the urgent need for the country to increase its oil and has reserves, improve revenue streams and create more business and employment opportunities for Nigerians. Mr. Baru said the move was also in line with NNPC’s corporate vis...

An expanded array of public policy experts are slated to attend this year’s edition of ‘Buharimeter’ town hall meeting to discuss the intricacies of the Buhari administration’s policy frameworks two years on. In a distributed programme, the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, said the experts, who were pooled from diverse professional backgrounds, will discuss how the government has been tackling issues of national importance during different segments of the event. The event will hold today at Abuja Sheraton Hotel and Towers between 10 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. PREMIUM TIMES will provide live updates of the event. The event would “broadly examine, interrogate and proffer practical recommendations to the lingering socio-economic and political challenges confronting the country amidst several policies and programs of the government,” organisers said. A former governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa; General-Secretary of Nigeria Labour Congress, Peter Ozo-Esan; and economic analy...