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The Federal Government has been advised to urgently address the lingering foreign exchange scarcity problem in the country to forestall massive job losses. While a long-term plan of developing alternative forex sources is required, a short to medium-term plan targeted at tackling the existing dollar shortage is inevitable. The immediate past Anglican Bishop of the […]

The Federal Government has promised to reduce the current rate of poverty in the country to the barest minimum. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, stated this while speaking at a Social Protection summit in Abuja The Federal Government is currently articulating a reform agenda for the social protection sector as […]

To ensure that the best emerges Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife‎, the institution’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has finalised plans to screen candidates for the position. It was learnt that the action was to facilitate and organise interaction with the shortlisted aspirants. The tenure of the current occupant, […]

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has admonished President Muhammadu Buhari to go beyond apologising to Nigerians on some flawed policies and miscalculated steps his administration has taken since assuming office. Fayose said the step for Buhari to take is to redress such lapses. The governor also urged the President to stop seeing himself as […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday said it has intercepted a letter laden with heroin in Lagos. The discovery was announced in a statement signed in Lagos by the agency’s spokesman, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju. According to the statement, the letter, which was sent from Bengalore, India, via Express Mail Service (EMS), was […]

… Demand Adamu’s Sack For Misinforming President  Less that five days after his public apology over the dissolution of the Governing Council of Universities, a human rights organisation, Coalition of Civil Society Groups, has withdrawn its case against President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu. According to the organisation, while Buhari’s […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has assured that the short and medium term plans adopted to tackle the embarrassing fuel crisis in the country will yield position results soon. He said all stakeholders in the sector are working tirelessly round the clock to en­sure relief is brought to Nige­rians […]

The Nigerian Army has announced that one million Naira cash would be given as reward to anyone with useful information that could lead to the rescue of abducted officer, Colonel Samaila Inusa. The announcement was made through a statement issued on Monday by the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations Officer of One Division, Colonel Abdul […]

Elder states man and founder of the defunct Nigeria Advanced Party (NAP) and a frontline politician Dr. Tunji Braithwaite is dead. The 82-year-old lawyer reportedly died Monday morning after a brief illness at St. Nicholas Hospital in Lagos.His son, Olu, confirmed this. He is expected to be buried soon. Braithwaite  is survived by married his wife, Grace […]

For the Bishop of Kaduna Arch-Diocese of the Anglican Church, Most Reverend Timothy Yahaya, nothing can convince him and his likes that the current fight against corruption embarked upon by President Muhammadu Buhari is not selective and lopsided. The Bishop said this on Sunday during the Easter service in his Arch-Diocese to mark the resurrection […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), and other senior officers arrested over the $2.1bn arms scam. It was learnt on Monday that a former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal J.B. Adigun, and former […]

The crisis rocking the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) took a new turn Wednesday when police officers from Alagbon, Lagos arrested leaders of the National Union of Banks, Insurance Companies, and Financial Institution Employees (NUBIFIE) on an alleged document falsification. According to the National President of NUBIFIE, Comrade  (Dr.) Danjuma Musa, who spoke with journalists, men […]