Oyo moves to ban open grazing, RUGA, farm encroachment by herders New bill gives conditions to herders ‘Ghana is faced with similar cattlemen’s crisis’ Nigerians have urged the Federal and State Governments to facilitate the establishment of private ranches as part of solutions to frequent clashes and loss of lives and property associated with the […]
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• Begins new rate tomorrow• Mixed feelings as Trump mulls end to birthright citizenship After more than 18 months of unfruitful negotiations with the Nigerian government to reduce its high visa fee, the United States Embassy yesterday invoked its reciprocity rule. “The total cost for a U.S. citizen to obtain a visa to Nigeria is […]
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says:“Nigeria is engaging the Saudi authorities through diplomatic channels with a view to finding a just solution.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described as untrue reports making the rounds that 23 Nigerians allegedly convicted for drug offences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been executed. The ministry made this known in a statement […]
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The Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinaya Abaribe, lambasted the Nigerian Bar Association on Tuesday for “failing to speak up” when President Muhammadu Buhari suspended former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. Hee said the Senate waited in vain for the NBA and the judiciary to act in order to save the situation, because the […]
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Nigerian security agencies will open an investigation after a British judge paved the way for a private firm to seize more than $9 billion in government assets over a failed gas deal, the information minister said Tuesday. The judge in London this month gave Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) the green light to claim […]
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The move by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to fully implement the Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO) designed in 2015 and the Minimum Remittance Order for the Year 2019 has raised new arguments on the structure of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). NERC has the mandate to implement the Electric Power Sector Reform (EPSR) […]
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Over 100 persons were feared dead on Sunday as a Cameroon-bound vessel sailing from Calabar, River State, Nigeria capsized on the high sea. According to sources at the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) at Marina, Lagos, the vessel which left Calabar, the Cross River State capital, for Cameroon with about 180 passengers on board on Sunday […]
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Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday, urged Nigerians not to lose hope despite the challenges facing the country. Obasanjo, who described himself as ‘an incurable optimist’ in Nigeria, declared that, though the current situation in Nigeria is bad, he could see the light beyond the tunnel. The former President said this in Abeokuta, Ogun […]
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‘We defeated Babangida, Abacha, we won’t allow another dictator’ We only prevented breakdown of law, order – Police The attack on Nigeria’s immediate past Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, in Nuremberg, Germany during the annual New Yam festival has continued to elicit reactions from Nigerians, both at home and in the diaspora. The spontaneity of […]
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Nigeria on Monday declared that she would appeal a British court decision permitting an Irish company to seize $9.6 billion (N2.946 trillion) of her assets. In fact, the Governor of the Country’s apex financial institution, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, told reporters in Abuja, the nation’s capital, that the bank would […]
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