The Nigerian economy is in recession, figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday has confirmed. The statistics bureau said the second quarter 2016 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined by -2.06 per cent. Annual inflation rose to 17.1 percent in July from 16.5 percent in June, and food
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-Anietie UdobitFor the first time in more than 50 years, a scheduled commercial flight from the United States has landed in Cuba. JetBlue Flight 387 touched down in Santa Clara, Cuba, at around 11 a.m. after departing Ft. Lauderdale earlier this morning with 150 people on board. While the flight was
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-Anietie UdobitTwo senior North Korean officials were executed with an anti-aircraft gun in early August on the orders of Kim Jong-un, South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported, citing people it did not identify. Ri Yong Jin, a senior official in the education ministry -- possibly minister -- was arrested for dozing
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Aero Contractors Airlines, the Nigeria’s second largest commercial carrier has suspended its scheduled services beginning from Thursday September 1, 2016.this was contained in a statement released on 31 August by the carrier’s management, it says that the airline had faced grave challenges in the past six months which impacted its
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The police in Imo State has arrested a young man who stabbed his neighbour to death following an argument that ensued because the deceased sold an iTel mobile set to the killer who later realized that the battery in the phone was faulty. According to a Facebook user, Blossom Emechebe who
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Twelve persons have been reported dead following a flooding incident that occurred in the Ganjuwa and Giade Local Government Areas of Bauchi State. Musa Ladan, Deputy Director, Needs Assessment of the State Emergency Management Agency, revealed this on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. According to Ladan, four children are included in the
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In what looks like a badly scripted movie, a 17-year-old boy in Zimbabwe, Timothy Blessing Chinhengo, has committed suicide by hanging after he found out that his 38-year-old married lover, Patricia Chiwese, cheated on him with another man. According to H-Metro, the love-struck teenager did not come to terms that his
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have very different plans for immigration policy in the United States if elected president in November, including proposals that in some cases are directly opposite of each other.Their campaign pledges range from ones emphasizing enforcement of existing laws to those requiring new legislation and possibly
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-Anietie Udobit,AbujaA solar eclipse is being expected in Nigeria tomorrow and people have been warned never to look at the eclipse with their naked eyes. The National Space Research and Development Agency (NSRDA), has announced that Nigerians will witness a solar eclipse between 7:15 am and 10:03 am on Thursday, September
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A staff of one of Nigeria's new generation bank is still bitter that his salary and that of many staff were slashed by the management of the bank without proper notification even with the hardship going on in the country. In an Email message sent to Pulse, the staff who did
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