Political leaders and private sector players in Nigeria have asked the incoming administration of the president-elect Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu to immediately restructure the country and remove the controversial fuel subsidy in the interest of most Nigerians. They also called on ...
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Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has clarified its stance on the Supreme Court judgment on the crisis over the national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), saying it cannot succumb to blackmail by amorphous groups. INEC said it ...
Read More »Senate Presidency: 72 Ex-Senators Endorse Akpabio, Barau
Seventy-two former federal lawmakers on the auspices of Non-Serving Senators of the Second to the Fourth Republics, have endorsed the choices of Senator Godswill Akpabio and Senator Jibril Barau as the next Senate President and Deputy of the 10th National ...
Read More »Peter Obi Visits Soyinka Over ‘Feud’ With OBIdients
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has visited Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over what he called “needless misconceptions” about the relationship between the international literary icon and his (Obi) supporters called the ...
Read More »National Assembly Leadership: Outrage As Tinubu, APC Govs Endorse Akpabio, Barau
There were indications yesterday that president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may have ended the prolonged speculations about the leadership of the 10th National Assembly. LEADERSHIP Weekend gathered that Tinubu and ...
Read More »NIPSS exposes House of Reps members-elect to tasks ahead
The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, near Jos says it is exposing House of Representatives members-elect to tasks ahead in areas of health, education, security among others. Its spokesman, Prof. Sola Adeyanju, made the declaration on ...
Read More »Politicians Out To Assassinate Ayade’s Character Over Tribunal Case – NGO
A non-governmental and Non-profit organisation (NGO), Joint Action for Good Governance in Cross River State, has raised the alarm over plots to assassinate the character of the state governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, by persons it called desperate politicians. According to ...
Read More »Senate Approves Buhari’s Request For N22.7trn Loans
The Senate yesterday approved the request of President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the N22.7 trillion loans the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) extended to the federal government under its Ways and Means provision. The Ways and Means provision allows the ...
Read More »‘Igbo Living In Fear In Lagos After 2023 Elections’
The chairman of board of trustees of apex Igbo non-partisan organisation Anya Ndi Igbo Dr. Uma Eleazu, has said Igbo people are now living in fear in Lagos after the general elections. Eleazu expressed the fear of the Igbo living ...
Read More »NLC, TUC Begin Strike Today
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have jointly directed workers in Imo State to withdraw their services across the state beginning Tuesday night. NLC said the decision followed the disruption of Monday’s Workers’ Day celebration supposedly by ...
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