Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello Kogi State Government, on Thursday, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of contempt of court over an alleged harassment of state officials in connection to the anti-graft agency’s probe into the state’s bail-out funds. In what the state government described as “illegal harassment of state officials ‘over a bail-out […]
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Sokoto, Bayelsa, Gombe, Jigawa, Plateau poorest states The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that 133 million Nigerians are multi-dimensionally poor. In its latest National Multidimensional Poverty Index report launched on Thursday, the NBS said that 63 per cent of Nigerians were poor due to a lack of access to health, education, living standards, employment […]
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A former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has described the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, as a danger to look out for in the coming 2023 elections. He said Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party were cancers to the Peoples Democratic Party in the elections. Fayose said […]
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Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has requested the Head of the European Union (EU) delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ambassador Samuela Isopi, to urgently request Federal Government of Nigeria to promptly implement the recommendation of United Nations (UN) Working […]
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By Dan Agbese In his independence anniversary speech last October 1, President Muhammadu Buhari said he had laid the foundation for building the Nigeria of our dreams. He was not the first Nigerian leader to make such a claim and point the citizens towards a tomorrow country called the Nigeria of our dreams. The Nigeria […]
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Stranded overtime cargoes at Lagos port Photo: Adaku Onyenucheya The revelation that over 8,000 stranded overtime cargoes, valued at about N3 trillion, are currently littering the country’s three major seaports – Apapa, Tin Can and Onne –is discomforting. To cap it all, it seems that little or no effort is being made to find a […]
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Facts have emerged on why Nigeria-born, New Zealand-based former UFC middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya, was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, United States, on Wednesday. He was reportedly arrested by Port Authority police in the American Airlines terminal for taking brass knuckles through security. Though, he has been released, a statement issued […]
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Priscilla Sitienei, a 98-year-old primary school student in grade six, greets her schoolmate at the Leaders Vision Preparatory School in Ndalat village of Nandi County, Kenya, January 25, 2022. (Photo: Monicah Mwangi/Reuters) Priscilla Sitieni, the world’s oldest primary school student, who inspired a French film and received UNESCO recognition, died in Kenya at the age […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, flanked on his left by his Osun State counterpart, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola , while commissioning a flyover built by the latter at Olaiya Intersection in Osogbo, Osun State capital on November 17, 2022 The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has criticised Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu for commissioning a flyover built […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu cutting the tape to commission a flyover built by his Osun State counterpart, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, at Olaiya Intersection in Osogbo, Osun State capital on November 17, 2022 Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Thursday said the achievements already recorded by Governor Gboyega […]
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