Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, may declare his interest to join the 2023 presidential race on Saturday. The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State will be organising a thanksgiving programme on the said date and the Minister is expected to grace the occasion. However, there are indications that Amaechi, …
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In a contrasting move to its pressuring of European allies to not buy Russian oil against the backdrop of the ongoing Ukraine crisis, the US increased crude oil supplies from Russia by 43 percent, or 100,000 barrels per day, over the past week, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Mikhail Popov told …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has been told to remove Governor Nasir el-Rufai as the Governor of Kaduna State and declare a state of emergency in the State without further delay. A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and socio-political activist, Reno Omokri, gave the advice, insisting that Buhari would destroy the …
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The battle for the 2023 Presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has split the main opposition platform into three camps. The division underscores the protracted disagreement over zoning, ahead of the primary. In the first camp are former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who submitted his presidential nomination form …
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The Enugu State Government has appointed Professor Aloysius-Michaels Nnabugwu Okolie as the new Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT). A statement signed by the Secretary to the Enugu State Government, Prof. Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, said the appointment is with effect from Monday, April 4, …
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It is quite unfortunate that at a time the people of Enugu State and indeed Nigerians are appreciating the enduring peace and good governance entrenched in the State by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, whose unique personality is charming, decent and exceptional, one insatiable politician from the State has been making desperate …
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Barely a week after four northern PDP presidential aspirants visited former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), to seek his support towards a consensus candidate among them, a group of four southern governors yesterday held a closed-door meeting with Babangida and former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd). …
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The Federal Government paid the total sum of N7.27bn as installments on loans acquired from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in February this year In February 2022, the Federal Government made a repayment of $8.21m (or N3.42bn, using the central exchange rate of the Central Bank of …
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The emergence of Senator Abdullahi Adamu as the new national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may worsen the already bad situation in the party as massive defections by aggrieved members loom ahead of the 2023 general elections. Adamu, a two-term governor of Nasarawa State, was the chairman …
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has advised Nigerians to avoid dealing with unlicensed or illegal financial operators in the country through its Financial Services Regulation Coordinating Committee (FSRCC). The advice was given by the CBN through the FSRCC in a statement posted on its website on Monday. According to …
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