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Ex-Vice President and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has announced a pan-Nigeria coalition to dislodge the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, from power in 2027. Also, he debunked speculations that he was planning to dump the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Atiku spoke with […]

– declares open National Cocoa Stakeholders’ Workshop in Akure Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has called for collective and innovative efforts to address the major challenges facing cocoa production in Nigeria, particularly in the areas of climate change, value chain inefficiencies, and poor succession planning. He made this call while declaring open the two-day National […]

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians o project the country’s positive feats to the outside world rather than its negative aspects. He spoke during a reception in his honour after commissioning  the new  2 by 15 MVA Ogbor Hill sub-station in Abia state. To him, Nigeria has sets of people capable of making the country […]

Federal workers have demanded a living wage in place of the N70,000 minimum wage. Also, they asked for a bulk payment of the five-month N175,000 wage arrears owed them by the Federal Government. They made the demands under the aegis of the Federal Workers Forum and other Forum Leaders (FWF),in a statement by the body’s […]

#NEWS Senate sets up Commit The Senate has set up an 18-member committee to oversee the activities of Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.). Senate President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, said the committee was created to strengthen transparency and accountability in the state’s governance. Announcing this on Tuesday at plenary’s resumption, […]

About 133 cardinal electors — aged under 80 — have gathered at the Vatican from five continents to pick a successor to Pope Francis, who died last month after a 12-year-long papacy. With experts singling out liberal and conservative frontrunners from Europe, the United States, Asia and Africa, the race to lead the 2,000-year-old institution […]

A mother, Fijabi Oyindamola Omotayo, who sought public assistance on Saturday over her missing son, Oladipupo Siwajuola attending Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, has announced that her boy has been found. Omotayo disclosed this in a Facebook post on Saturday. She said, “My son has been found.” The Director of Marketing and Communications for the university, […]

• Elumelu, Otedola, Adesina, others demand meeting with President • FG under fire over subsidy promises in power sector Amid fears of an impending collapse of Nigeria’s power sector, the Federal Government has pledged urgent intervention to offset the N4 trillion owed the electricity generation companies (GenCos), a move it says is critical to stabilising […]

70% shareholding held by apex bank, says financial statement Initiative is stillborn, says appointed asset manager National budgets less than 10% of yearly expenditure need Low private sector participation slows race to N160tr yearly spending About five years after ex-President Muhammadu Buhari approved the establishment of N15 trillion ($37 billion at the time it was […]

The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, says he is still fighting for the survival of his $20bn refinery, stressing that the fight is not yet finished. Dangote expressed optimism that he would win the fight for the refinery, stating his determination to fight on. According to Semafor, an international news medium, Africa’s richest […]