Thursday, 09 January, 2025

Month: January 2023


The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) has demanded immediate withdrawal of Atiku Abubakar from the presidential race over alleged involvement in corrupt practices. Bayo Onanuga, APC PCC Director (Media and Publicity), in a statement, also asked the Read more…


The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has vowed to sanction any commercial bank hoarding the new naira notes from the public.  According to CBN, from Thursday (today), monitoring of commercial banks will commence, in order to know those who are Read more…


A seasoned political activist and Obi/Datti campaign spokesperson, South-West, Dele Farotimi said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi will win the 2023 presidential election on the first ballot.  Farotimi stated this while speaking in an interview with Read more…


Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, yesterday in Lagos, raised the alarm that Nigeria’s debt profile could hit N77 trillion in June 2023, saying returning the economy to the path of sustainable growth demands that certain fundamentals must be gotten right.  The Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Ihiala Local Goverment Area Secretariat was in the early hours of Thursday razed down by gunmem. Sources claimed that the gunmen in their large number stormed the council area Secretariat at about 2.00am and killed the security Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor A lecturer, Mrs Uzodike Ngozi in the Department of Business Administration, Nnamdi Azikiwe University( UNIZIK) Awka Anambra State has been delivered of a set of seven babies. The university lecturer was actually delivered of two boys and Read more…


A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 elections, Charles Udeogaranya, has warned Nigerians to heed the recent warnings of the World Bank and save Nigeria from an impeding economic crash by electing the Labour Party Read more…


The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu held a meeting with the leadership of the 18 political parties at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. The meeting, the first this year, was intended to present the Read more…


The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has assured Nigerians of his sound health and corruption-free status, saying Nigerians should, rather, worry about the 76-year-old candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Read more…


The Edo State Government on Wednesday said the latest intelligence on last Saturday’s kidnap at an Igueben train station, indicated that 20 people were actually kidnapped by the herdsmen and not the 32 figure earlier reported. Mr Chris Osa Nehikhare, Read more…


The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 7, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command to intensify stop and search operations. Mr Egbetokun gave the directive on Wednesday in Abuja during his familiarisation Read more…


Nigeria’s economic growth is projected to decelerate to 2.9 per cent in 2023 and remain at that pace in 2024, the World Bank has said. The growth projection, barely above population growth, comes against the backdrop of challenges in the Read more…