Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to stop former governors, currently serving as ministers, from collecting life pensions, luxury vehicles and other allowances in their states. It equally pleaded with the affected Nigerians to refund the life perks they may have taken since leaving office. The beneficiary ex-governors are: Badaru […]
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President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa, has appealed to Nigerian athletes participating in the ongoing World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, to go for medals. Okowa, who spoke at the team’s Park Inn hotel, Radisson, in Budapest, on Monday, said that […]
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The World Athletics Record holder in 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, has declared that she has put behind her the trauma of her suspension by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), over the Whereabouts Failures charge. Amusan began training for the title defence on Monday morning at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary. She had already […]
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The management of the University of Calabar has directed the former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof.Cyril Ndifon to refund all illegal monies extorted from students under various sub-heads. The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Florence Obi, disclosed this yesterday while addressing Newsmen in her chambers on issues surrounding the alleged sexual harassment, […]
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Newly sworn in minister of Interior, Bunmi Tunji-Ojo has assumed office. He arrived the ministry at about 2:20 pm accompanied by a crowd of supporters who were chanting solidarity songs after the swearing-in ceremony at the presidential villa. The ministry however shut out journalists who were at the ministry waiting for hours to report events […]
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Despite pleas and admonitions for a lean government to reflect the distressed state of the economy, reduce recurrent expenditure and associated cost of governance, President Bola Tinubu has gone ahead to nominate a 70-man Federal Cabinet, made up of 48 minister-nominees, 45 of whom have been screened and confirmed by the National Assembly, and in […]
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– Why Naira is under attack, by ABCON president Policy inconsistencies of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continued unabated at the weekend with the reinstatement of Bureau de Change (BDCs) operators in the bid to stabilise the foreign exchange (forex) market. Indeed, bringing back the BDCs can help increase the supply of forex in […]
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Favour Ohanekwu displaying his N100, 000 cheque as overall best graduating student of Obafemi Awolowo University It is hardly mentioned that scholars or geniuses make the top list of Forbes’ richest persons in the world, and it is becoming increasingly worrisome as the Nigerian society continues to place higher premium on vainglorious entertainment than academic […]
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With Nigeria’s fiscal stability at a breaking point and the 2023 budget dismissed as unimplementable, Collins Olayinka and Joseph Chibueze write that the new Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, has his job in the next one year clearly cut out. For Nigerians and stakeholders in the financial space, the main task before Wale Edun as […]
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Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke has stressed that the solid minerals sector needs a dynamic overhauling and go beyond selling of raw materials to the development of value chains to get added earnings and redouble Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). He made the suggestion l on Monday in a statement by his […]
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