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Over 60,000 Christians in Katsna state have begun a fasting and prayer session over President Buhari's health. Chairman of the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Reverend Onyeka Chukwu, disclosed this to newsmen at a press conference in the state capital, Katsina Sunday. According to Chukwu, the state Christians will be praying for speedy recovery for President Buhari who is currently in the UK for vacation and medical checkup. He said that the prayers would be offered at Mountain of Fire Church at Kofar-Kaura, Katsina and six other Churches namely Church of God Mission, Calvary Baptist, ECWA, St. Martin De Porres Catholic Church, and C&S, Dutsin-ma road, all in Katsina. He added that the fasting and prayer session will be concluded at the St. John’s Anglican Church, Katsina next Sunday.

Veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie who is in Ghana to shoot a movie with Kofas Media has suggested that African leaders swear-in into elected Government positions with smaller gods instead of the bible following the high rate of corruption in Africa. The actor who paid a courtesy visit to the former president of Ghana, H.E Jerry John Rawlings on Friday, February 17, 2017, with casts of the new movie, said state officials who swear with the Bible become more corrupt when they are in office. According to him, God forgives easily, so these officials do not take the oath serious whenever they hold the Bible to swear. He further said that the smaller gods are not merciful like the Almighty God who created heaven and earth. He said they swear with gods so that it will put fear in these corrupt leaders to distance themselves from corruption.

The chairman of the city's road in Dubai and Transport Authority , Mattar Al Tayer has revealed that Dubai will have autonomous taxi drones zipping around its skyline this summer. Speaking at the recent World Government Summit, a gathering of tech and government leaders at Dubai, he said: 'I am glad to inform you that hopefully, we will be able to have these drones available, starting July 2017.' The country which plans that a quarter of all journeys in the city will be autonomous by 2030, will have people sit inside the drones without fearing for their lives. According to Huffington Post, the flying taxis manufactured by Chinese drone-making firm EHang can carry a person weighing up to 100 kilograms (about 220 pounds) along with a small suitcase.

University of Nigeria, Nsukka, academic staff (especially lecturers) can now be denied promotion if evaluation from the students taking their classes indicate that the quality of their teaching is not up to standard.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has explained that its new foreign exchange policy is to cushion the hardship faced by Nigerians in paying school fees abroad, medical bills and travel expenses. The policy The policy announced on Monday was sequel to last Thursday’s directive by the National Economic Council, NEC, for immediate review of the FOREX policy to stem the widening gap between the inter-bank foreign exchange and parallel market rates. The new policy takes immediate effect. The NEC meeting presided by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo had expressed concern over the prevailing exchange rate situation in the country, especially the widening gap between inter-bank and the parallel market rates. While inter-bank rate, which is the official exchange rate approved by the CBN, stood at about N308.50 to the dollar, the rate at the parallel market, which is readily accessible by most Nigerians, rose to as high as N510 to the dollar last week. The Bank, in a statement on Monday ...

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Seven governors have questions to answer in the alleged diversion of part of the N388.304billion London-Paris Club refunds into two accounts opened by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF),.... The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has uncovered N19billion in one of the accounts. The other is a domiciliary account, which contains a yet unspecified amount of money. One of those invited for interrogation has admitted handing over a huge sum of money to a principal officer of the National Assembly after changing it into dollars, according to the preliminary report on the management of the refunds. According to a source, who pleaded not to be named because he is not permitted to talk to the media, EFCC detectives discovered that while about 2% of the funds was paid to consultants who allegedly assisted in computing what was due to each state, 3% was shared by some governors under “curious circumstances”. The source said: “The detectives have uncovered the two accounts open...