Person of the Year 2024: Nigerians in Diaspora: From broken dreams to new global value chain

2024 wasn’t a happy year for many globally. A profound economic crisis and sweltering experience further sunk many below the breadline and complicated their despair in Nigeria. Yet at the confluence of these trends is a new nation of foraging Nigerians that has made the world its home. As bleak as the home front appears, […]

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Wike’s camp protests as Fubara presents budget to three-man Assembly

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara presenting the 2025 budget to the State House of Assembly on Monday, December 30, 2024 [Credit: X | #SimFubaraKSC] Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Monday, presented N1.18tn budgetary estimate for 2025 to the factional state House of Assembly comprising three lawmakers. The development was a repeat of last year’s […]

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Fubara presents N1.188tn 2025 budget to Rivers Assembly

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara presenting the 2025 budget to the State House of Assembly on Monday, December 30, 2024 [Credit: X | #SimFubaraKSC] Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Monday presented N1.188 trillion as a budgetary estimate for the 2025 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly for consideration and approval. This figure […]

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Dashed hopes: How local refineries fail to curtail rising petrol prices

Petrol has become unaffordable to ordinary Nigerians despite the availability of two facilities refining the nation’s crude oil. This has spiked inflation, making life difficult for the citizenry whose hope of cheaper fuels depended heavily on local refineries, DARE OLAWIN reports Years ago, Nigerians were made to believe that the only road to affordable petroleum […]

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Adeleke signs 2025 N427b budget into law

Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun, on Monday, assented to the N427,746, 925,170 budget passed by the legislature for year 2025 into law. Adeleke after signing the budget directed the state’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to ensure its full implementation for the benefits of the people. “We are here to further demonstrate our readiness to […]

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Oyebanji signs N375.7bn 2025 budget

Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, presenting the 2025 budget at the State House of Assembly Complex, Ado-Ekiti on Monday Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji has signed the 2025 Appropriation bill of N375.7 billion, tagged “Budget of Sustainable Impact,” into law following its passage by the State House of Assembly. He assented to the bill on […]

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Five years on, WHO urges China to share Covid origins data

Covid-19 EG.5.Pix: Yahoo The World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and access to help understand how Covid-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that upended the planet. Covid-19 killed millions of people, shredded economies and crippled health systems. “We continue to call on China to share data […]

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US prepares state honors for late president Jimmy Carter

(Files) Former President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd at the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008. – Jimmy Carter, the 100-year-old former US president and Nobel peace laureate who rose from humble beginnings in rural Georgia to lead the nation from 1977 to 1981, has […]

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Presidency tells Bauchi governor to withdraw threats against Tinubu

The Presidency has told Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, to sheath his sword and withdraw his confrontational remarks directed at President Bola Tinubu over the tax reform bills. Speaking on his X handle on Monday, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, berated the governor and described Mohammed’s threat as “inflammatory”. Mohammed […]

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2027: Kwankwaso debunks rotational presidency deal with Atiku, Obi

The 2023 Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party and former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has denied claims of a supposed pact involving himself, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party concerning a rotational presidency arrangement. In an interview with BBC Hausa on Monday morning, […]

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