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Food Crisis: Otti Urges Leaders to Embrace Technology Gov. Alex Otti of Abia has advised Nigerian leaders to urgently device strategies to migrate from food deficit to food sufficiency to avert impending food crisis in the country Otti gave the advice on Thursday at the National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Umuahia, during the […]

IMF Board Begins Selection Process for New Managing Director The selection process for a new Managing Director for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has begun,  its Board Coordinators have said. The Board Coordinators of the Executive Board of the IMF, Mr Afonso Bevilaqua and Mr Abdullah Bin Zarah disclosed in a statement made available to […]

N1.1Trn FCT Appropriation Bill Scales 2nd Reading at Senate The Senate has passed for a second reading, a bill seeking to authorise the issuance of N1.1 trillion from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) statutory revenue account. The passage of the bill for the second followed its presentation by Sen.Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti), at plenary on Thursday. […]

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday called on women judges in the country to identify obstacles that hinder women advancement. Sanwo-Olu also urged them to strive for a future where women in the legal profession would stand on equal footing with their male counterpart. The governor made the call while addressing the first […]

Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Ogbia, Yenagoa, has ruled that Otuabagi community, not Oloibiri, is the host community to the oil well that first produced crude oil in commercial quantities in the country in 1956. The court also ordered “Oloibiri community to desist from demanding a relocation of the Museum and Research Centre Project […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria has reiterated that banks operating in the country cannot use their foreign exchange revaluation gains to pay dividends or meet their operational expenses. In a circular from the apex bank on Thursday signed by the acting Director, the Banking Supervision Department, Adetona Adedeji, banks were warned against such a move. […]

Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, has asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to withdraw orderlies attached to lawmakers in the National Assembly and those attached to politicians in the country. Ndume stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday. He said, “I support that they should take away all their […]

The case between the founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party,NNPP, and Kwankwasiya held at the Kano State High Court 4, has been adjourned to March 27th 2024 for further proceedings. The presiding judge,Justice Usman Mallam Na’abba., has directed that all pending motions before the court would be heard. At the court session,counsel representing NNPP […]

The Executive Chairman of the Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), Ayodele Subair said about fifty taxes will be cut down to a single digit. Subair disclosed this in an interview with Arise Television. According to Subair, the tax policy will be implemented sometime during the year 2024. He said the Lagos State Government is looking […]

The pan-sociocultural group of the Tiv Nation in Benue State, known as Mzough U Tiv Worldwide, stated, on Thursday, that no fewer than 147 people were killed in the last two months in the state by suspected armed herders and militia groups. This was as the group demanded an apology from the Sultan of Sokoto, […]

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, is dead. He was aged 81. Oba Balogun spent two years on the throne of his forefathers, having been presented the Staff of Office by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on March 11, 2022. Confirming his death in a statement by his Chief Press […]

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday appealed to all state governors to set aside their political differences and focus on governance. He also said the country is no longer in the state he met it since assuming office nine months ago, assuring Nigerians that the “tunnel is not as dark as when we started”. “Since we […]