Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to initiate new strategic approach to save Nigeria’s economy. The traditional leader made the call on Tuesday during the 2022 edition of Grandmothers’ Festival in Epe. Adamns criticized the Buhari administration policies that had reduced the nation to surviving on foreign loans. He…
Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has said he will be leaving the state next month as an oil-producing state, with the capacity to produce rice that can sustain itself. Obiano said Anambra State would begin to earn 13 per cent derivation from oil production as an oil-producing state, while reading to journalists a text…
There are indications that the Trade Union Congress (TUC) may soon direct its members to boycott work if the challenge of fuel scarcity across the country persists for the next few days. Those the TUC intends to pass the directive across in the coming days are workers in statutory corporations and government-owned institutions. The Congress…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, on Wednesday, disclosed how five cargoes containing ethanol-laden Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) were rejected after discovering that the first was substandard. The Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Melee Kyari, also disclosed that the company was filing damages against suppliers of the substandard PMS, while alleging that Duke Oil,…
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum (2nd left) ceremonially presenting N100m cheque for start-up capital to a leader of 152 reformed youths who renounced political thuggery, after completing an entrepreneurship training at the Ramat Polytechnic… in Maiduguri on Friday February 18, 2022. For renouncing thuggery and attending one month of intensive practical training on entrepreneurship, Governor Babagana…
Embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, and four others may spend more time in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency as the NDLEA has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja informing the court of its intention to detain the suspects beyond the stipulated 48 hours. NDLEA has already begun a…
Former Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola has attacked his political ally and leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, over who becomes the next governor of the state. Aregbesola, who is the current Minister of Interior, spoke in Ijebu Ijesa while addressing the All Progressives Congress, APC, faithful and stakeholders ahead of the party’s governorship primary. Aregbesola,…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has described the Imo West Senator, Rochas Okorocha as the most unfortunate thing that ever happened to Imo State. IPOB said Okorocha is a selfish and hypocritical politician whose administration as governor of Imo State was better forgotten. Emma Powerful, the spokesman of the separatist group, was reacting to…
…As Controversies, Mixed Reactions Trail Tinubu’s Recent Visit To The UK . It is no longer News that a former Lagos State Governor, and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has jetted out of Nigeria to seek medical attention abroad few weeks after declaring his interest to contest the 2023 presidential election. This is coming barely…
APC controlled states in the North seriously fractured • Internal wrangling is perfectly normal – FFK • President Buhari’s nonchalant posture unhelpful – Babajide With less than 14 months to the country’s general elections, the ruling party at the centre and the largest party in Nigeria are currently on the verge of implosion, which could…
