By Banji Ayoola Returning now and then to the old that you have discarded, that mercifully you have been torn from; Is like picking up, and wearing the old cloak you had pulled off, the slough you had pulled out of, again and again. It is like scooping up your vomit and drinking it again. […]
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Nigeria’s total public debt rose by N57.3tn within the first 18 months of the current administration, according to an analysis of data released by the Debt Management Office. The increase represents a 65.6 per cent surge in the debt stock, growing from N87.38tn recorded at the end of June 2023 to N144.67tn as of December […]
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The United States and China announced Monday an agreement to drastically reduce tit-for-tat tariffs for 90 days, de-escalating a trade war that has roiled financial markets and raised fears of a global economic downturn. After their first talks since US President Donald Trump launched his trade war, the world’s two biggest economies agreed in a […]
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The Indigenous People of Biafra has declared a sit-at-home on May 30, 2025. This is to honour Biafran men and women who died during the Biafran War. IPOB said the sit-at-home is a yearly memorial, noting that it was a way to remember Biafra heroes and heroines. The group said it informed the South East […]
Continue ReadingAbout 3,000 digital influencers from all corners of Osun State have converged, their mission clearly to rally behind the governorship aspiration of Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji, better known as AMBO. The gathering marked the inaugural physical meeting of the AMBO Media Front (AMF), a formidable coalition of online voices ready to shift the political tide […]
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Again, armed hoodlums have attacked men of the Amotekun Corps in Osun State, leaving one of the operatives critically wounded. The incident occured on Friday during a burial ceremony in Egbedore Local Government Area of the state during the burial of a deceased person on a plot of supposedly sacred ancestral land. Irked by the […]
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The Federal Government has assembled 12 Senior Advocates of Nigeria, led by a former Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Akin Olujinmi (SAN) and six other lawyers to defend the emergency rule declaration in Rivers State in the suit filed by the 11 Peoples Democratic Party governors challenging the suspension of democratic rule in the […]
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Fubara speaking at the event. Credit: X| Big_Sinudo Suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has stated that he is not desperate to return to office, revealing that his “spirit left the Government House long ago.” Fubara, however, acknowledged the immense support he had received from many people and emphasised the importance of standing by those […]
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Patience Jonathan Wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has ruled out the possibility of her husband joining the 2027 presidential race to contest against President Bola Tinubu. Mrs Jonathan said rather than contest, her family would campaign for Tinubu’s re-election because Tinubu and his wife, Oluremi, supported Jonathan’s 2011 presidential bid. Mrs Jonathan, whose husband […]
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The move to reconcile all aggrieved members of Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has started in earnest, with the party’s Governors Forum and former governors naming Ex-Senate President Bukola Saraki as the head of a seven-man reconciliation committee. Other members of the committee are Governors Dauda Lawal (Zamfara), Caleb Muftwang (Plateau), […]
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