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As the countdown continues on the 2023 General Elections, the political gimmicks and campaigns by Politicians are witnessing a high tension with the throwing of words at one another to damage image of opponents. Espectedly, politicians have been moving from pillar to post trying to market and de-market themselves to the citizens instead of engaging ...
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday accused state governors of thwarting development in the country by tinkering with local governments’ allocations. According to the widely reported news, President Buhari accused the state governors of forcing the helpless local government chairmen to sign that they have received 100 percent of funds allotted to their respective local governments ...
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The Federal Government has approved a new National Language Policy which makes the mother tongue a compulsory medium of instruction in primary schools. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, revealed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa. According to him, the ...
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The role of Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) in reviewing policies and programmes to enhance its regulatory and supervisory functions in the Deposits Money Banking (DMBs) cannot be overlooked. The corporation has been engaging stakeholders and members of the Senate Committee on banking, insurance and other financial institutions in several workshops to reamend some laws ...
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About a week now, the fuel scarcity which seems to be abating has taken the turn for the worst. The long queues started appearing at the filling stations across the country in September forcing the price of the petroleum products to jump from 180/litre to between 205 and 210 per litre among the filling stations ...
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Violence is one of the recurrent features of Nigeria’s electoral history and democratic journey since independence in 1960. The country witnessed escalated violence in the period before, during and after elections. The country’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has not hidden its fear by raising alarm ahead of February and March 2023 ...
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The Federal Government on Wednesday disclosed that a whooping sum of $1 billion looted funds has so far been recovered under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration since 2015. This is just as the government disclosed that about 3,000 looters found guilty of corruption offences have upon trial been convicted under the Buhari-led government. The Attorney ...
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Egypt was the first nation to participate in the World Cup from Africa, and that was in 1934. Thereafter, thirteen different African nations have competed in world football’s biggest tournament. As the years went by and Africa was given more slots in the tournament, the world has been dazzled by some exciting and entertaining football ...
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Russia’s war in Ukraine has disrupted Africa’s promising recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic by raising food and fuel prices, disrupting trade of goods and services, tightening the fiscal space, constraining green transitions and reducing the flow of development finance in the continent, according to United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Ahunna Eziakonwa. This, in no small way, ...
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The absence of Nigeria from the 2022 World Cup will continue to hunt administrators and lovers of the Super Eagle. It’s the wish of every nation to be at the World Cup. The tournament is loaded with a lot of mouth watering benefits for the players, participating nations, corporate organizations and host nation. A former ...
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16th November every year has been set outside by UNESCO as International Day for Tolerance. The day affirms among other things that tolerance is neither indulgence nor indifference. It is respect and appreciation of the rich variety of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human. Tolerance recognizes the universal human ...
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The 28th Nigerian Economic Summit has come and gone but the expected gains from the summit cannot be swept under the carpet. This is considering the fact that the inflation is soaring with the rate of 21.09 per cent released by the National Bureau of Statistics ( NBS) for October 2022. The summit was highly ...
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Women participation in both elective and appointive positions in Nigeria has been relatively low. And this has not been too encouraging. However, concerted efforts have been made by government and non-governmental organizations to increase the level of participation of women in politics in line with the declaration made at the fourth World Conference on women in Beijing, ...
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Suicide is a global public health problem and Nigeria is one of the epicentres of suicide in the world today. In time past, suicide was alien to Nigeria. No matter what, Nigerians would want to stay alive believing “e go better” (there would be positive turnaround). In recent times, the trend has changed owing to ...
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Two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were set ablaze in Ogun and Osun States by suspected hoodlums. The Commission had earlier summoned a security meeting over reported attacks on rallies and campaigns of political parties. The arsonists in the early hours of Thursday, set INEC offices at Iyana Mortuary, Abeokuta, the Ogun ...
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The raging insecurity threat on all fronts of the country leave one to wonder if the forthcoming election would hold. In 2015, the worse that happened was the postponement of the general elections by weeks. Today, the tempo of attacks however the colorations become worrisome. Despite frequently echoed assurance from president Muhammadu Buhari and the ...
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The Inter-agency committee set up on the recovery of debts owed the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) between 2020 to 2021 fiscal year has recovered a whopping sum of N307 billion and should be supported by Nigerians home and abroad to carry out the assignment seemlessly. The Committee had yesterday submitted its report to ...
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has asked for the cooperation of Nigerians as it “continues to pursue positive resolution of this avoidable crisis within the ambit of legality without compromising the interests and welfare of Nigerian intellectuals.” The union held an overnight National Executive Council meeting in Abuja following the payment of half ...
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The song on every lip in Nigeria today is, ‘Japa,’ travelling abroad. Every nine of ten wants to leave the shores of the country to seek for greener pastures. Can we really blame them? Considering the various crises and societal challenges which continually threaten their existence,these make their chances of survival pallid. The government to ...
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The terrorist threat is escalating, spreading across the continent with an alarming 22 countries in Africa targeted by terrorists. This has caused great concerns in Addis Ababa, seat of the AU. For some years, both its predecessor (the Organisation of African Unity — OAU) and the AU have worked to end the scourge of terrorism on ...
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It is a common knowledge that insecurity in Nigeria has remained unabated. Banditry, Boko Haram, Kidnapping in the North and Cultism, amongst other raging incidents of moral decade are the focus in the Southern States. Although both items of insecurity are ambiguous to the both axis; Indeed, Nigeria represents a nation under collapse. Here, unwarranted ...
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The last week Friday abduction and killing of travellers along the ever busy Lagos/Ibadan expressway around Sat Guru Maharaji about two kilometres away to the Old Toll Gate, Ibadan remains another sad commentary on our ever deteriorating security in and around the country. During this unfortunate incident, a former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University ...
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In the face of rising inflation rate, the Central of Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced the decision to redesign Naira’s higher denominations in a bid to take control of money in circulation in the country. The CBN gave deadline to phase out of circulation the existing N200, N500, and N1,000 notes out of circulation on 31st ...
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As political campaigns ahead of the forthcoming presidential elections get to the crescendo, rhetorics targeted at attacking persons, ethnic/tribe/ religious cards against issue-based should be discouraged by all Nigeria voters. Putting things into perspective, by “issue-based” campaigns, it implies that presidential candidates should show deep knowledge and understanding of the governance challenges that beset Nigeria ...
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The United States has issued a security alert to its nationals in Nigeria, principally to those in the Federal Capital Territory. Travel Advisory for Nigeria has been updated due to a heightened risk of terrorist attacks in Abuja. “We recommend U.S. citizens do not travel to Abuja at this time”. In addition, on October 27, ...
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced its plans to introduce new designs of the N200, N500 and N1,000 notes by December 15 amidst ‘economic woes’. This is one of the few policies considered good politically and economically for Nigeria. The CBN has come out in defence of its plans. The bank of banks stated ...
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The shortage of Premium Motor Spirit(PMS), popularly known as fuel has become a reoccurring crisis without no permanent solution. This have now become a routine national embarrassment as the sixth largest exporter of crude oil in Africa. The Federal Capital Territory(FCT), Lagos, and other cities are faced with another round of fuel scarcity as queues ...
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The eNaira was launched and activated on 25 October, 2021 by President Muhammad Buhari, under the slogan: “Same Naira, More Possibilities” has enhance the enconomy with digital currency traffic among Nigerians.Pertinently, the digital currency which was litmus test of the apex bank makes Nigeria the first country in Africa and one of the first in ...
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Gov Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) having pulled a total votes of 187,057 during the governorship election held on Saturday, June 16 2022 set the stage to become the next helmsman of Ekiti State. Oyebanji had defeated his closest rival and former Governor of the state, Engr Segun Oni of the Social ...
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The British Prime Minister, Liz Truss on Thursday resigned after spending just 45 days in office, admitting her inability to deliver the mandate on which she was elected by the Conservative Party. According to her, “I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. Families and businesses were worried about how ...