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Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the use of articles from British tabloid The Daily Mail and its globally popular website as sources, calling them “unreliable”, according to a statement. English-language editors of the online encyclopaedia cited the newspaper’s “reputation for poor fact-checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication”, said the statement posted on Wikipedia Wednesday. The vote means the tabloid’s use as a reference should be “generally prohibited”, it said. The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organisation that runs the Wikipedia website, acknowledged the vote in a statement cited in The Guardian, but said it was up to its unpaid editors. From…

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday said the State is willing, able and ready to partner with investors within and outside Africa, just as he said that adequate measures have been put in place to enhance the ease of doing business within the State. Ambode, who spoke at the second edition of German-African Business Summit held in Nairobi, Kenya, said as Africa’s model mega city, Lagos is strategically positioned to play a leading role in propelling development on the continent, adding that as a result of the growing investors’ confidence, the State is fast becoming a preferred destination…

The House of Representatives has commended the financial discipline of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and has assured the anti-graft agency of improved funding under the current fiscal year to enable it effectively tackle corruption and revamp the nation’s economy. The Chairman, House Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Kayode Oladele, gave the assurance on Thursday, February 9, 2017 during the 2017 budget defence by the EFCC. Oladele used the opportunity to underscore the need to remind Nigerians that the fight against corruption is one of the most potent weapons to fight recession which cause is rooted…

Gospel and pop legend Aretha Franklin says she is retiring from recording music, but only after a final album this year that will feature Stevie Wonder. The singer, who has been recording music since she was a child in her preacher father’s church in Detroit, turns 75 next month and said she wants to spend more time with her grandchildren. “This will be my last year,” Franklin told Detroit television station WDIV this week. Franklin said she will soon head to a studio in the city to record a final album with fellow Detroit music great Stevie Wonder producing several…

Nigeria’s Agriculture Minister, Audu Ogbeh has said that high interest rate from banks remained the bane of financing of agriculture and the development of good agricultural practices. The minister made the remark while delivering a keynote address at the maiden edition of the Nigeria Food and Safety Investment Forum held at the Eko Hotels and Suites. According to Ogbeh, a situation where commercial banks request for as much as 25 per cent interest on agricultural loans was capable of crippling the government’s policy of economic diversification through agriculture. “We still have trouble finding lenders to farmers; the banking sector still…

The Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) on Thursday said it has taken over the operation of Nigeria’s largest domestic carrier, Arik Air because it is immersed in heavy debt. Mr Jude Nwauzor, AMCON spokesperson, confirmed the development to newsmen in Lagos. Nwauzor said the airline would now be managed by Capt. Roy Ilegbodu, an aviation expert under the receivership of Mr Oluseye Opasanya (SAN). He said the government decided to intervene because Arik Air is immersed in heavy debt burden that is threatening to ground its operations. “For some time now, the airline, which carries about 55 per cent…

All talks and rumours about the well being and state of health of President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s number one citizen can be put to rest now. Buhari who is in London on a medical vacation showed his face in public when Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the former national chairman of the party visited him in London on Thursday, 9 February. The trio were captured in front of the Nigerian House in the United Kingdom and the picture has quickly circulated on social media. The picture does not only confirm that President…

An 18-year-old Boko Haram suicide bomber, Amina, who was intercepted by men of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday in Maiduguri, said she was given N200 for the mission. She told our correspondent in Maiduguri that she was abducted two years ago by the sect members in Madagali, Adamawa, and taken to Sambisa forest. “They gave us N200 each which they said we should use to buy food for ourselves. “It took us three days to come to Maiduguri on a motorcycle. We were directed by the sect members to detonate our explosives any where we saw…

Senator Elizabeth Warren has earned a rare rebuke by the Senate for quoting Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor. The Massachusetts Democrat ran afoul of the chamber’s arcane rules by reading a three-decade-old letter from Dr. Martin Luther King’s widow that dated to Sen. Jeff Sessions’ failed judicial nomination three decades ago. The chamber is debating the Alabama Republican’s nomination for attorney general, with Democrats dropping senatorial niceties to oppose Sessions and Republicans sticking up for him. King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to “chill the free exercise of the vote by…

A White House list of what it calls under reported terrorist attacks did not support President Donald Trump’s claim that the media are downplaying a “genocide” carried out by the Islamic State group. But it did shine new light on the difficulty in defining the scope, source and motives behind the violence carried out in the name of radical Islam. A close review of the 78 attacks listed by the White House shows almost all the attacks were reported by the news media and that many were widely covered by local and international outlets. The review, carried out by Associated…