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International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that the Federal Government of Nigeria may spend 93 per cent of the country’s revenue on the payment of interests incurred on its debts by 2022. In a projection provided in the IMF’s ‘Nigeria Staff Report for the 2021 Article IV Consultation’ report, the Fund also projected that 139 […]
Continue ReadingReports coming in say the Federal Government of Nigeria has arranged a special flight operation to evacuate Nigerians from Ukraine. Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama in an interview with NTA said the Nigerian embassy in Kyiv has been contacted to finalise the arrangements for those willing to return to the country. Onyeama said: “The […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has launched the Revised National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development, stressing the need for urgent measures to address Nigeria’s high fertility rate, through expanding access to modern contraceptive methods across the country. Buhari also inaugurated the National Council on Population Management, chaired by him, and the Vice President as the […]
Continue ReadingNothing less than 96 financiers of terrorism, including 424 associates/supporters of the financiers have been uncovered by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed made the announcement on Thursday February 3, during a briefing on the anti-corruption fight of the President Muhammadu Buhari. Lai Mohammed also revealed that the fraud unit unmasked […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has disclosed that the subsidy on fuel in Nigeria may continue for another 18 months. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, announced this on Tuesday, January 25, while briefing State House correspondents in Abuja. Sylva said that President Muhammadu Buhari, aware of the negative implications of total subsidy removal, has graciously […]
Continue ReadingAn Abia State High Court presided over by Justice Benson Anya has ordered Nigerian Government to pay the sum of N1 billion as damages to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and issue a letter of apology to him. The IPOB leader had instituted the court action demanding N5 billion […]
Continue ReadingThe ban on Twitter operation in the country may soon be lifted as the social media giant has reportedly met six conditions imposed on it by the Nigerian government. The Nation newspaper reported that the Technical Committee raised by the government to resolve the impasse between the two parties is fine-tuning the offers by the […]
Continue ReadingUmbrella body of the Yoruba self-determination group, Ilana Omo Oodua on Thursday insisted that the embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, committed no crime by agitating for peaceful secession from the Nigerian State. The group led by 86-year-old Professor of History, Banji Akintoye, said the regime of the President, Muhammadu […]
Continue ReadingIn a joint statement, the 9 candidates in the forthcoming Anambra governorship election have appealed to the Nigerian government to release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The candidates said releasing the IPOB leader would help forestall “impending violence” in the south-east. The joint statement was signed by Ben Etiaba of […]
Continue ReadingNothing less than 3,964 Nigerians are currently on the watch list of the Nigeria Immigration Service. According to reports, the names of the affected individuals have been placed with security agencies at the nation’s international airports where they will be arrested on sight. Going by the 2020 NIS annual report suspect index, 308 persons were […]
Continue ReadingProf. Banji Akintoye, Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS), has accused the Nigerian Government of sponsoring a counter protest at the United Nations Headquaters on Friday, September 24. The emeritus Professor alleged that, to counter the “Million-Man Freedom March” which NINAS first staged on September 14 and 15, the Nigerian Government has […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government’s total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means Advances has ballooned to N15.51tn, rising by 2,286 per cent in six years, data collated from the CBN have shown. The N15.51tn owed by the Federal Government to the central bank is not part of the country’s total public debt stock, […]
Continue ReadingAlmost two decades after abolition, Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the reintroduction of toll collections on some selected dual carriageways across the country. However, the exercise exempted diplomatic, military, para-military vehicles, tricycles, motorcycles from the scheme. Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed these on Wednesday while briefing the State House […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has said that Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, is trying to obtain a new passport to escape from Nigeria after being placed on the stop-list in order to facilitate his arrest. This was stated in a letter dated July 9 and signed by A.B. Baba, Assistant Comptroller General of Immigration, Investigation and Compliance, […]
Continue ReadingBritish High Commission in Nigeria has extended consular assistance to the detained leader of the Nigerian-proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. In the same vein and as we have reported before, a law firm in London, Bindmans, seeks Kanu’s consent to take up his case. There were reports on Thursday that one of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Correctional Service (NCS) has published the photos of four inmates who escaped from a prison facility in Jos, Plateau state, Nigeria. The photos were released Friday, July 9, via the NCS’s Facebook account in a post titled: Faces of inmates that escaped from Jos Custodial Centre. The NCS disclosed that the inmates escaped around 2am […]
Continue ReadingECOWAS Court of Justice sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, West Africa, has ordered the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to pay Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo N30 million. The compensation to Jalingo, a Nigerian citizen, is for his arrest and chaining to a deep freezer for about 34 days, while in detention in Cross River State without being […]
Continue ReadingYoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) at his house in the Soka area of Ibadan on July 1. Chief Yomi Aliyu SAN, counsel to the Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingLike the Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo did some days ago, the Playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Monday, granted an interview to BBC News Pidgin over the midnight invasion of the home of Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho because of his struggle on Yoruba Nation or Yoruba self determination. He spoke on Nnamdi Kanu, Miyeti […]
Continue ReadingThe Yoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has estimated the losses incurred during the raid of his Ibadan home by DSS agents last Thursday, July 1 at N500 million. The activist has therefore caused a letter to be written to the Nigerian government through his counsel, […]
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