The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, and the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Wednesday, differed on the nation’s debt-to-Gross Domestic Product ratio. Experts who spoke to our correspondents also expressed worry over the nation’s rising debt profile. While Ahmed putContinue Reading
The Presidency has washed its hands off the current attempt by the National Assembly to amend the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) Act and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Act, a move media stakeholders have condemned as an attempt to gag the press. The Special Adviser to the President on MediaContinue Reading
Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has won all the 21 local government areas of Anambra State in the governorship primary election held in Awka on Wednesday by the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for the November 6 election. The election was held by theContinue Reading
The Ondo State Governor, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has disclosed that his administration has paid about N6 billion out of the arrears of gratuities inherited from the previous administration. Akeredolu stated this yesterday when he received members of the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) that were led to his office byContinue Reading
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has directed the State Ministry of Water Resources and Environment to immediately begin reconstruction of streets ravaged by gully erosion, as part of the solution to ecological challenges confronting the State. Dailypost reports that parts of Makurdi the state capital, particularly Wadata, North BankContinue Reading
Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday attributed Nigeria’s failure to properly manage its diversity and continuing inability to give ethnic and religious minorities their proper place in the country as part of the reasons for disenchantment in the polity. The former president, in his address at the 13th Joe-Kyari Gadzama PublicContinue Reading
The Lagos state government says most of the injuries sustained by protesters at the Lekki tollgate were from machete cuts and stampede. Hakeem Muri-Okunola, head of service, stated this on Tuesday, when he appeared before the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality to represent the state government. Muri-Okunola came toContinue Reading
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has disclosed why President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration failed to deliver their electoral promises in their first tenure. Lawan said Buhari and APC failed due to the face-off between the Executive and National Assembly. He explained that theContinue Reading
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Monday, signed into law two bills passed by the Rivers State House of Assembly. The bills include the Public Procurement (amendment) Law No.1 of 2021 and Contributory Health Protection Programme Law No.3 of 2020. Governor Wike, who assented to the bills at the GovernmentContinue Reading
Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central Senator, has insisted that most abducted students from Kebbi State are still with bandits. Bandits abducted students and teachers of the Federal Government College in Birnin-Yauri, Kebbi State, on Thursday in the state. One of the students abducted from the school was shot dead during aContinue Reading
