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President Muhammadu Buhari will only receive 50% of the salary paid to his predecessor. The President's decision to take a 50% pay cut was conveyed to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation yesterday by the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Mr. Nebolisa Emodi.

http://www.simonateba.com/breaking-buhari-osinbajo-cut-their-salaries-by-50-percent-to-receive-half-of-what-jonathan-sambo-received/

Supporters of controversial Nigerian pastor and self acclaimed healer and seer, Prophet T.B. Joshua, whose guesthouse killed 116 people in September 2013 when it suddenly collapsed in the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos have blasted Nigeria over the coroner's court ruling which said the six story building came down, not as a result of a chemical attack by an unidentified plane as the prophet had claimed in a video, but due to structural defaults, due to negligence. 

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Iftikhar Muhammad Arslan, a Pakistani national, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for unlawfully importing 25.4 kilogrammes of high grade heroin to Nigeria.

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President Muhammadu Buhari pledged on Thursday that his administration will protect local manufacturers against "unfair competition from abroad", spokesman Femi Adesina said in a statement.

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Brenda Myers-Powell was just a child when she became a prostitute in the early 1970s. Here she describes how she was pulled into working on the streets and why, three decades later, she devoted her life to making sure other girls don't fall into the same trap. Some people will find Brenda's account upsetting.


Right from the start life was handing me lemons, but I've always tried to make the best lemonade I can.


I grew up in the 1960s on the West Side of Chicago. My mother died when I was six months old. She was only 16 and I never learned what it was that she died from - my grandmother, who drank more than most, couldn't tell me later on. The official explanation is that it was "natural causes".



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Cameroonian soldiers killed many Boko Haram terrorists last night around Fotokol in northern Cameroon and the Chadian army pursued the fleeing Islamist militants inside the Nigerian territory, a reliable journalist said, as the terrorists attack Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad at the same time.

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase, has mandated State Command Commissioners of Police to strengthen security at all Mosques, Churches and other worship centers across the country.

http://www.simonateba.com/breaking-after-bombings-in-nigeria-police-fortify-security-at-all-worship-centres-ban-street-trading-hawking-on-abuja-roads/

A bomb blast has occurred in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano, reports said on Monday night, a day after 44 people were killed in Jos and six in Potiskum.

http://www.simonateba.com/breaking-bomb-goes-off-in-kano-nigeria-on-the-brink/

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, is heartbroken and inconsolable, he said in a statement on Monday, following the killing of over 40 people in Jos by “blood sucking vermin” Boko Haram members.


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Boko Haram terrorists killed 44 Nigerians on Sunday in attacks on a mosque and a restaurant in the central city of Jos, the same day six people were killed at a church in Potiskum and only days after more than 200 were massacred by the sect in Borno.

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan called on Nigerians on Saturday to unite against Boko Haram terrorists and support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as it tries to figure out how to crush the “godless, mindless” militants

http://www.simonateba.com/breaking-jonathan-calls-on-nigerians-to-unite-against-boko-haram-to-support-buhari/

Since President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn into office on 29 May with the pledge to crush the “godless, mindless” militants, more than 400 Nigerians have been killed by Boko Haram in Borno and Yobe States.

http://www.simonateba.com/breaking-suicide-bomber-kills-6-at-redeemed-church-at-potiskum-yobe-state/

Press Release

The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to unauthorized and unexpected Tweets by an account falsely linked to Zahra Buhari, one of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Following enquiries by a few foreign missions on the raging online controversy about unsavory comments against some foreign leaders purportedly made by her, we wish to state categorically that Zahra is indeed on Twitter but the offending handle @Zahra_Buhari has stopped being her own for a long time since it was compromised by hackers.

http://www.simonateba.com/breaking-presidency-disowns-zahra-buharis-alleged-twitter-comments/

By Simon Ateba/Lagos @simonateba

President Muhammadu Buhari began his sixth week in office on Saturday without a cabinet, a fractured political party, an angry party leader, an accusation of a northern agenda and a new first name: “Baba Go Slow”.

More than five weeks after the Katsina-born politician and ex-military dictator was sworn into office on Friday 29 May, and more than three months after he defeated former President Goodluck Jonathan on 28 March with over 2.7 million votes and a pledge to rapidly fix Nigeria’s many ills, Buhari is yet to form a cabinet or even appoint key officials to keep the machinery of government in motion.....http://www.simonateba.com/buhari-begins-sixth-week-in-office-with-no-cabinet-a-northern-agenda-and-a-new-first-name-baba-go-slow/