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A reality TV show, Integrity Idol, that celebrates honest civil servants in corruption-plagued countries like Nigeria is reaching new audiences and rewriting the narrative in not only Nigeria but west Africa. In Mali and Liberia, the TV show aims to enlist the public’s help in fighting graft, the organisers said. “Integrity Idol” asks the public to nominate model civil servants and then vote for their favourite by text message after the finalists appear on national TV and radio. The show launched in Nepal in 2014 and has since spread to Pakistan, Nigeria, Mali and Liberia. In finals this weekend in…

The executive director of marine operations in the Nigerian Ports Authority, Dr Sokonte Davies has claimed that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers is the sponsor and enhancer of criminality in Rivers state. Davies who spoke at a pro-Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, rally in Port Harcourt said the Squad and other units of the Nigerian Police have done a good job in improving the security situation in the state. He said before now that there were manifold evidence of daily murder and beheading in every local government area of the state. “You have statistics that clearly shows that since the coming…

Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday granted bail to Senator Isah Misau self recognition. She however, ordered that the defendant should deposit his international passport with the Chief Registrar of the Court and can apply whenever he needs it. Justice Chikere adjourned the matter until January 21 for hearing. Misau who represents Bauchi Central Senatorial District, was arraigned on an amended 10-count charge bordering on forgery and other related offences. READ: Nigeria seek to boost oil output despite OPEC’s decision At the resumed hearing, the prosecuting counsel, Mr Saleh Hadi, from the office of…

Less than two weeks after OPEC’s decision to extend oil production cuts, Libya and Nigeria – the only two exempt members of the group – are signalling their intent to raise output next year. While several ministers at the November 30 meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries suggested the two nations had joined the output-curbing deal, both are working to add to their peak production from this year. On Friday, oil company Total said its new Egina field offshore Nigeria was on track to start next year – adding 10 percent to the country’s production. The field…

Protesters briefly shut three oil wells owned by Italy’s ENI in southern Nigeria over the weekend and could try do so again, a community leader said on Tuesday. Timiondi Fabofighe, chairman of the Ikebiri Community Development Committee (CDC), said the protests, against the presence of multinational oil companies in Nigeria’s oil production heartland, took place at ENI’s subsidiary Agip in Bayelsa state. ENI declined to comment. It was not immediately clear if the protests had affected production. “It is true that we shut down three oil wells belonging to Agip,” said Fabofighe. READ: Oscar Pistorius hurt in prison fight in…

Harry Kane is scoring for fun and its increasingly looking inevitable that he will beat Alan Shearer’s record of 36 goals in a calendar year. In 2017, he’s scored more goals than Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and more even than West Brom and Crystal Palace. The Tottenham striker’s sparkling form in front of goal this calendar year continued on Saturday as he scored twice in a 5-1 demolition of Stoke at Wembley. Kane has found the net 33 times in 32 league matches, part of 50 goals in 48 games in all competitions for club and country. The 24-year-old is closing…

Former South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been hurt in a prison fight, less than two weeks after his sentence for the killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was more than doubled. The disgraced Paralympian was allegedly involved in a fight over the use of a public phone, a prison department spokesman told the BBC. Pistorius, jailed for 13 years and five months, sustained a bruise, he added. No other serious injuries were reported, the spokesman said. “It is alleged that he was involved in an altercation with another inmate over the use of a public phone in the special care…

At least six soldiers died in two separate Boko Haram ambushes in northeast Nigeria, military and civilian militia sources said on Monday. Four troops were killed and 12 injured on Sunday when their convoy was attacked near Damboa, 90 kilometres (56 miles) from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state. Two soldiers were killed in the same area on Saturday, the sources told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not allowed to talk to the media. READ: New Record: Electricity generation hits 7,000mw in Nigeria A military officer in Maiduguri said Sunday’s ambush happened when troops were on…

Nigeria’s electricity generation has hit 7,000 megawatts, the highest in the history of Nigeria, but a large proportion of the generation is idle. Reports say that only 5,000 megawatts had been utilised, leaving 2,000 megawatts idle. Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, complained that only a part of the generation had been put on the grid. “On Friday December 8, we reached an all-time power production of 7,000 and a great peak supply of 5,155 Megawatts, which Nigeria has never produced or generated. “The last supply was 5074 MW in January 2016, after which we went…

The Japanese entertainment and technology conglomerate said that as of Dec. 3 it has sold a total of 70.6 million PlayStation 4 consoles. It also has sold more than 617.8 million copies of PS4 games, and a total of 2 million PlayStation VR units. The PlayStation 4 continues to dominate its rival, Microsoft’s Xbox One console. Microsoft no longer breaks out sales numbers, but one estimate puts the total at around 30 million as of August. Even if that’s slightly off, the numbers illustrate the wide gap between Microsoft and Sony in the console wars. Read Also Apple confirms it…