says ex-CBN governor sold banks without payment evidence, recommends lenders’ forfeiture to FG Report reveals how former apex bank boss approved interest-free loans for cronies The report of the special investigation into the activities of the Central Bank of Nigeria has accused the immediate past governor of the apex bank, Godwin Emefiele, of using ill-gotten […]
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The acute scarcity of cash worsened on Friday, leaving many shoppers and travellers stranded and at the mercy of Points of Sales operators, who offered the small amounts of money available to them to desperate citizens for exorbitant fees. Also on Friday, hundreds of intending passengers, who wanted to travel to different parts of the […]
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Scores of concerned groups in Rivers State on Friday gathered in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in a solidarity rally for Governor Siminalayi Fubara over the political crisis in the state. The groups condemned and rejected the presidential resolution on the face-off between Governor Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, which […]
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Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara By Obasi Igwe Continued from yesterday Only Talbot imagined partial Ijaw connection – initially: “The people of Bonny … are a mixed Ibo-Ijaw race, the Ibo portion is said to have come down from Azumini several hundred years ago and…intermarried with the earlier Ijaw settlers.” Talbot afterwards discovered: “According to […]
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The Nigeria Navy has in the last eight months of April to November, recovered over N5 billion worth of stolen crude oil from oil thieves in Nigeria. This was disclosed by the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ikechukwu Ogalla, at the ongoing CNS meeting with operational Commanders at the New Conference Hall, Naval […]
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Lagos State NSCDC Commandant, Commandant of Corps (CC) Isaq Alfadarai Usman The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has deployed 2500 personnel in Lagos State, to ensure maximum security during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. Mr Seun Abolurin, spokesperson of the NSCDC, said this in a statement on Friday, in Lagos. The personnel […]
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The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has said that the Federal Government will promote patriotism to fight terrorism and banditry in Nigeria. Idris, in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Rabiu Ibrahim, said the promotion of patriotism and nationalism is a strategic approach to curbing violent crimes such as banditry, kidnapping and […]
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Henry Alfred Kissinger, the renowned United States diplomat, passed on last month, leaving the world with mixed reactions borne out of diverse characteristics of his person. Kissinger, a political scientist, geopolitical consultant, politician, and author lived for a century. That he was an outstanding intellectual is an undisputed fact. It was in the field of […]
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PRNigeria Ladies have strongly condemned the “dangerous tendency” of the media in Nigeria to reproduce and sensationalise stories that are capable of destroying the hard-earned reputation of the womenfolk. In September, a video titled “Nigerian women are the most unfaithful in the world” went viral on social media platforms; several newspapers and blogs feasted on […]
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The French parliament has passed a controversial immigration law that restricts family reunification for migrants, delays access to welfare benefits, and creates a two-tier system of citizen and non-citizen rights. The legislation, supported by President Emmanuel Macron but backed by both his centrist party and the far-right National Rally, has sparked outrage from the left […]
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