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President Goodluck Jonathan will on Wednesday (June 27th) depart Abuja on a one-day official visit to Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to attend the Summit of the World Customs Organisation. The president will leave after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President ...

Facebook launched its own email service back in 2010, which was promptly forgotten by everyone. This morning, Forbes noticed that they removed everyone’s email addresses from their profiles, replacing them with an @facebook.com email address instead (not Facebook‘s internal email address which they use for notifications and password resets, just the one listed on your profile). Luckily, it’s easy to ...

President Jonathan has fired NNPC Group Managing Director, Mr Austen Oniwon, and Others. Mr Andrew Yakubu is the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Full press release below: PRESIDENT JONATHAN APPROVES RE-COMPOSITION OF NNPC MANAGEMENT TEAM To further strengthen the ongoing reforms and transformation of Nigeria’s Petroleum sector, and in furtherance of efforts to achieve greater ...

UPDATE: Gunmen with explosives attacked a police station on Tuesday in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, previously targeted by Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a police source said. “Goron Dutse police station is under attack by gunmen using explosives and guns,” a senior police official said on condition of anonymity. An AFP journalist heard five blasts and saw smoke ...