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The Tiv Youth Council Worldwide has asked Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State to concentrate on providing good governance and responsible leadership for the people of the state instead of chasing the wind in the name of attacking President Muhammadu Buhari. The group, in a press statement issued yesterday by its president, …

    Ibrahim Salami, one of the lawyers representing Sunday Adeyemo, Yoruba Nation activist better known as Sunday Igboho, says a new charge was brought up against his client on Monday. Salami said Igboho came to Benin through a back channel and the judge said he might have had some criminal association while …

  The Lagos State Police Command has charged one of the arrested Yoruba Nation protesters with the murder of a sales attendant, Jumoke Oyeleke. The agitators had, on July 3, 2021, gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota amid the presence of armed policemen and soldiers. This was after …

The Federal Government will next year end most of its subsidy payments in the electricity sector estimated at N30 billion monthly. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who disclosed this at the opening of the 14th Nigerian Association for Energy Economics/IAEE conference in Abuja yesterday, said the government expected the electricity sector …

Nigeria’s revenue-to-Gross Domestic Product ratio, which fell to between five and six per cent last year, is the lowest in the world, the World Bank said on Monday. The Country Director for Nigeria, World Bank, Dr Shubham Chaudhuri, said this during a panel session at a virtual public sector seminar …

It is no longer news that Nigeria banned the import of rice and some other goods coming into the country from Benin republic which of course had dealt a serious blow on the economy of this small west African nation . But with Sunday Igboho arrest and knowing how far …

President Buhari departs Abuja and Arrives London ahead of Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnship for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 London 4: President Buhari with Nigeria High Commissioner to London Amb. Sarafa Ishola HM Lord Lieutenant Sussex Mrs Jennifer Tolhurst and Mr David Peaery as he arrived London ahead of …

The Ghana High Commission in Nigeria has expressed outrage over comments credited to President Akufo Addo. The mission in a statement on Monday, said Addo never made disparaging remarks about Nigeria and President Muhammadu Buhari. A publication had claimed Addo called for a revolution in Africa’s most populous country. Ghana …

Former Ekiti Deputy Governor Prof. Kolapo Eleka has said his dream to run for the June 12, 2022 governorship election in the state was still alive. Eleka insisted he would still vie for the plum position despite the fact that his former boss and ex-governor Ayodele Fayose has backed another …

The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, speaks during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on July 26, 2021. The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has berated the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), over its management of Nigeria, saying that by 2023, the …