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Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Governor Godwin Obaseki’s administration, yesterday, engaged in a war of words over state of federal roads in the state and the refunds made to the state on roads rehabilitated by the administration of Adams Oshiomhole. Addressing newsmen at the state secretariat of the party, […]

Mr. Farotimi made the comments during an interview with Rudolf Okonkwo on the online programme 90Minutes Africa on Sunday. Author, political activist and one of the spokespersons for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council in the 2023 presidential election, Dele Farotimi has described people who believe that the plight of Nigerians would be ameliorated once President

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has decried Tuesday’s attack on officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) at the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos.DSS operatives had assualted some officials of the NCS over disagreement about which agency should take custody of the suspended

Suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, was today (Tuesday) granted bail by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. He was granted bail in the sum of N20 million and a surety in like sum. The bail followed a two-count charge of illegal possession of firearm brought against him

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, in a damning verdict, said Nigeria has failed the African continent in particular, and the world in general.Obasanjo stated this in Abuja while giving the keynote address at the public presentation of the book titled: ‘Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa,’ written by former Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, who

By 9th August, this year, it would have been 730 days since the South-east region began to observe the weekly sit-at-home exercise as declared by proponents of separatist state of Biafra, to press for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Of the 730 days, every

With issues around subsidy removal and economy still dominating public discourse, Prince Adewole Adebayo, presidential flag-bearer of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the February 2023 general elections, offers insights into what the government should do to minimize the negative impacts of increases in fuel price, a development being controlled mainly by market forces. In

The Resource Centre for Human Rights & Civic Education (CHRICED) has brought to light the dire situation of approximately two million Original Inhabitants (OIs) of Abuja’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Nigeria. Comprising nine tribes and seventeen chiefdoms, the OIs are grappling with the challenges of landlessness, statelessness, and the impending extinction of their culture.

Former President of the Nigerian Association of Nephrologists, NAN, Dr. Ebun Bamgboye, yesterday, raised the alarm that one out of seven Nigerians has chronic kidney disease, just as he advocated deceased donor programme to save chronic kidney disease patients in the country. Bamgboye, who is the Clinical Director at St. Nicholas Hospital, said this while

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has clarified that the Chief Justice of Nigeria CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola had no telephone conversation with anyone, including President Bola Tinubu on the ongoing presidential election petition on the 2023 election. The Apex Court said Justice Ariwoola neither spoke with Tinubu nor the Director General of the Department of