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President Goodluck Jonathan’s Independence Day Speech [FULL TEXT]
April 19, 2022
Beloved countrymen and women, on this day, fifty-two years ago, our founding fathers brought joy and hope to the hearts of our people when they won independence for our great country. Nigeria made a clean break with more than six decades of colonial rule, and emerged as a truly independent nation. That turning point was … Continue reading President Goodluck Jonathan’s Independence Day Speech [FULL TEXT]
Seun Adebiyi: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer
April 19, 2022
A month after his 2009 graduation from Yale Law School, Seun Adebiyi learned he had not one but two lethal blood cancers and began an odyssey to find a bone-marrow donor. Mr. Adebiyi, 28, who came to this country from Nigeria as a child, made appeals through Yale, on radio stations, in a YouTube video … Continue reading Seun Adebiyi: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer
CN Food Fact: Fluted Pumpkin Leaf (telfairia occidentalis)
April 19, 2022
It is a good and healthy habit to practice eating vegetables. The vegetarian plant-based diet typically has the advantage of being low in saturated fat, cholesterol, and salt.
April 19, 2022
Nigeria has been called “the heart of African music” because of its role in the development of West African Highlife, which fuses native rhythms with techniques imported from the Congo.
Zamfara State
April 19, 2022
Zamfara State is a state in north-western Nigeria. Its capital is Gusau and its Governor is Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari, a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP). Until 1996 the area was part of Sokoto State.
Rivers State
April 19, 2022
Rivers State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Its capital is Port Harcourt. It is bounded on the South by the Atlantic Ocean, to the North by Imo, Abia and Anambra States, to the East by Akwa Ibom State and to the West by Bayelsa and Delta states.
Osun State
April 19, 2022
?s?un State is an inland state in south-western Nigeria. Its capital is Osogbo. It is bounded in the north by Kwara State, in the east partly by Ekiti State and partly by Ondo State, in the south by Ogun State and in the west by Oyo State.
Ondo State
April 19, 2022
Ondo State, Nigeria was created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State. It originally included what is now Ekiti State, which was split off in 1996.
Delta State
April 19, 2022
Delta State is a state in Nigeria, comprising mainly Urhobo, (Urhobo people), Isoko, Igbo (Anioma people), Ijaw and Itsekiri.
Borno State
April 19, 2022
The state is dominated by the Kanuri and Babur ethnic groups and also a few Shuwa arabs mainly descendants of Arab immigrants, and is an example of the endurance of traditional political institutions in some areas of Africa.
Benue State
April 19, 2022
Benue is a state in the Middle-Belt region of Nigeria with a population of about 2.8 million in 1991.
Jim Iyke In Search of ‘Jewel for Jim’
April 19, 2022
After D’Banj’s adventurous journey into reality TV shows with “Koko Mansion”, one of Nollywood’s finest, Jim Iyke is set to find his own love through a reality TV show named “Jewels for Jim”. The popular Nollywood actor who is the romantic fantacy of every…
Jim Iyke Set for Reality TV Show, ‘Jewel for Jim’
April 19, 2022
After D’Banj’s adventurous journey into reality TV shows with “Koko Mansion”, one of Nollywood’s finest, Jim Iyke is set to find his own love through a reality TV show named “Jewels for Jim”. The popular Nollywood actor who is the romantic fantacy of every…