By Fola Ojo Over half of the time of my life I have spent outside of Nigeria. My individual economy is not tweaked tough by either the ugly or beautiful state of the Nigerian economy. A good or bad government in the country really makes not much difference to many I know because they dwell […]
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, met with former President Goodluck Jonathan, Thursday night. Okowa, who is also the governor of Delta State, announced this on Friday in a tweet via his verified Twitter account. While sharing photos from the event, Okowa stated that the […]
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has discharged and acquitted a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and five others from the N544 million contract fraud offences brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The court on Friday held that the anti-graft agency failed to establish a prima […]
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Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello Kogi State Government, on Thursday, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of contempt of court over an alleged harassment of state officials in connection to the anti-graft agency’s probe into the state’s bail-out funds. In what the state government described as “illegal harassment of state officials ‘over a bail-out […]
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Sokoto, Bayelsa, Gombe, Jigawa, Plateau poorest states The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that 133 million Nigerians are multi-dimensionally poor. In its latest National Multidimensional Poverty Index report launched on Thursday, the NBS said that 63 per cent of Nigerians were poor due to a lack of access to health, education, living standards, employment […]
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A former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has described the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, as a danger to look out for in the coming 2023 elections. He said Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party were cancers to the Peoples Democratic Party in the elections. Fayose said […]
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Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has requested the Head of the European Union (EU) delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ambassador Samuela Isopi, to urgently request Federal Government of Nigeria to promptly implement the recommendation of United Nations (UN) Working […]
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By Dan Agbese In his independence anniversary speech last October 1, President Muhammadu Buhari said he had laid the foundation for building the Nigeria of our dreams. He was not the first Nigerian leader to make such a claim and point the citizens towards a tomorrow country called the Nigeria of our dreams. The Nigeria […]
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Stranded overtime cargoes at Lagos port Photo: Adaku Onyenucheya The revelation that over 8,000 stranded overtime cargoes, valued at about N3 trillion, are currently littering the country’s three major seaports – Apapa, Tin Can and Onne –is discomforting. To cap it all, it seems that little or no effort is being made to find a […]
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Facts have emerged on why Nigeria-born, New Zealand-based former UFC middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya, was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, United States, on Wednesday. He was reportedly arrested by Port Authority police in the American Airlines terminal for taking brass knuckles through security. Though, he has been released, a statement issued […]
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