• Day Two records full compliance in Southeast • Action paralyses commercial activities, cripples economy • ‘Don’t obey Monday sit-at-home order henceforth’ • IPOB spokesman apologises for destructions, promises to repair damages • HURIWA asks Ndigbo to hold Southeast governors accountable As the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) struggled to dissociate itself from the fallout […]
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• PDP, economists kick as party urges NASS to probe alleged looting of loans • About 85% of matured loans are refinanced, economist suggests • ‘You can’t take more when 80% of revenue goes into debt’ • Lagos to borrow N25b as Sanwo-Olu signs green bond market agreement Amid concerns over debt overhang, President Muhammadu […]
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Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi will on Thursday host his colleagues from the 16 Southern States. The meeting, billed for the Government House in Enugu, will be the third of such interactions among 17 southern governors. They (governors) had their first meeting in Asaba, Delta State, where they took far-reaching decisions on issues of national […]
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The Nigerian Correctional Service has stated that 114 inmates out of the 266 that escaped from the Kabba Medium Custodial Centre in Kogi State on Monday have been recaptured. A total of 294 inmates were in the facility when some gunmen attacked the Centre but 28 of them refused to escape. Public Relations Officer of […]
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Detained Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has asked Yoruba Nation supporters to forgive Ibrahim Salami, one of his Cotonou-based lawyers. Igboho, had in a leaked audio, expressed anger with Salami’s team of about 10 lawyers in Benin Republic for failing to secure his release after about 50 days in detention. He lambasted […]
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A bill for a law to impose and charge Value Added Tax on certain goods and services, provide for administration of the tax and for related purposes scaled second reading on Tuesday at Ogun State House of Assembly. Mr Deji Adeyemo, Clerk of the Assembly, read the bill for the first time during plenary session […]
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Yoruba Nation agitators and other self-determination groups have arrived at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Earlier, the Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, Prof Banji Akintoye, had declared that a Million-Man Freedom March would hold opposite the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States of America from 14th to 24th […]
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said he has no plan to contest the Lagos State governorship seat after his tenure in 2023. According to the 59-year-old politician, the incumbent Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is doing well and there is no need to discontinue him from running for second term in […]
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The United Arab Emirates, UAE, on Monday named six Nigerians with ties to insurgent group Boko Haram as terrorist financiers. The UAE Cabinet on Monday issued Resolution No 83 of 2021, designating a total of 38 individuals and 15 entities on its approved list of persons and organisations supporting Boko Haram and other terrorist cause. […]
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