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Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and former National Chairman of the defunct United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, have called for national emergency to navigate out of the present health and economic crisis wreaked by coronavirus. They insisted ...

A Chieftain of Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has really exposed the weaknesses of the governing structure in Nigeria and ineptitude of elected officers to manage the country. Adebanjo, while reacting to the ...

Elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has described renewed calls for true federalism in the country as uncalled for in the prevailing circumstances. He expressed concern over the fall in the price of crude oil, which is the mainstay of the economy, ...

As the price of crude oil crashes in the international market due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), groups in southern Nigeria, especially the Niger Delta, have called for immediate restructuring of the country. Publicity Secretary of the Pan Niger Delta ...

The Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, has regretted the alleged extortion of transporters nationwide by security agents, stating that the development was obstructing seamless delivery of relief materials to mitigate the impact ...

The military yesterday said the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole had destroyed Boko Haram locations at Bulawa on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest in Borno State. The air strikes were executed on April 21 2020 following intelligence ...

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has banned reporters from the Adamawa State Government House, Yola for fear of infesting employees with the dreaded coronavirus. The embargo comes in the wake of the index case three days ago in the North East state ...

An independent report by the Monitoring Transparency and Accountability in the Management of Returned Assets (MANTRA) has disclosed that N23.7 billion of the recovered $322.5 million Abacha loot had been disbursed to better the poorest households in the country. According ...

Petroleum and Energy Economists has painted a gloomy picture for the nation’s economy, canvassing cut in the workforce as well as salary at the Federal, State and council levels to cushion the effects of global economic meltdown. They argued that ...

Stakeholders have urged the nation’s economic managers to take tough decisions bordering on the implementation of the Steve Oronsaye’s 2014 report and diversify the economy. They stated this while responding to the falling prices of oil in the global market, ...