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It is about a week to a full year after the events of the #EndSARS  protests, and the Lagos State Police Command has warned against plans by any group to hold an anniversary protest.   The command warned that intelligence reports had revealed that such plans were in the offing.   The warning was contained […]

Nigeria’s Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday said that the current exchange rate of the naira is artificially too low.   He therefore called on the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria to allow the value of the naira to be determined by market forces.   This comes as the Nigerian currency has fallen […]

As the incarcerated Yoruba National leader, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho, celebrated his birthday on Sunday, Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has asked the Republic of Benin to release him unconditionally.   Adams made the declaration in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, in which he congratulated […]

Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of All Progressives Congress, has declared that only God can take his life.   Tinubu made the declaration on Sunday, in a “Thank you speech” he gave at a party to welcome him back home after a three-month medical trip to the United Kingdom.   The party was organised by […]

  Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution is the country’s “glorified death certificate,” which President Muhammadu Buhari must “tear down,” the Senior Pastor of the Citadel Global Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare has said.   Bakare, who was Buhari’s VP candidate in 2011, made the declaration on Sunday at a Church service in what he called a ‘State of […]

  Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue on Saturday in Makurdi expressed confidence that the PDP was waxing stronger and would win overwhelmingly at the 2023 general elections.   Ortom told journalists that the PDP was better positioned now and was ready to wrestle power from the ruling APC, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. […]

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said that the arrest of Nollywood actor, Mr Chiwetalu Agu amounted to ethnic targeting the people of the Southeast and Igbo-speaking Nigerians.   The actor was first arrested by soldiers for wearing a cloth that had the color of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra in Onitsha. […]

  Nigerian soldiers have killed three members of a gang of unknown gunmen who attacked a police checkpoint along Okija-Onitsha expressway in Anambra, leading to the death of a policeman.   The Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this on Saturday in a statement titled ‘Troops’ neutralise three unknown gunmen in a […]

The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, returned to Nigeria on Friday night after a three-month medical trip to the United Kingdom.   Tinubu’s return was confirmed by his media spokesman, Tunde Rahman, in a statement titled, ‘Asiwaju is back’.    “His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu returned to the country, […]

The Nigerian government spent an average of 74 percent of its revenue on debt servicing in the first eight months of this year, the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning has said.   Between January and August, the country generated total revenue of N3.9rn but spent N2.89tn on debt servicing within the period the […]

Only about 41 million people in Nigeria,  pay their personal income tax, out of the country’s over 200 million population, Muhammad Nami, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, has disclosed.   Nami declared this at the ‘Public Presentation and Breakdown of the Highlights of the 2022 Appropriation Bill’ in Abuja on Friday, done […]

 About 77 oil land and gas companies who are indebted to the Federal government to tune of N2.65trn may have no more place to hide, as President Muhammadu Buhari has given marching orders to anti-graft agencies to recover the money.   The agencies involved in the debt recovery are the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative […]