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Nigeria’s embattled Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele wants you to believe that holding the naira artificially at N197/$ and ignoring the parallel market rate at near N400/$ will put a lid on inflation for an economy that imports most of what it consumes. However recent price checks by Nairametrics shows that prices of goods are […]

PDP Wins Senate Elections in Kogi, Benue, David Mark Re-Elected – SimonAtebaNews 56 Shares Share Tweet Share Email Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rose again on Saturday by winning all senatorial rerun elections in Kogi Central, Kogi East and Benue South. Former Senate President Mr. David Mark who won Benue South […]

By Leo Sobechi/ngrguardiannews.com POLITICALLY speaking, the All Progressives Congress (APC), is currently at a very delicate corner on its windy road to the future. Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari had to state in exasperation that the judiciary was his major headache in the fight against corruption. The president knows that the main thrust of public acceptance […]

7 Shares Share Tweet Share Email The Nigerian military has arrested two suspects Audu Umar and Hassan Umar for smuggling themselves among the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) brought from Pulka to Gwoza IDPs Camp in Borno State, newswire PRNigeria said in a statement. The male suspects who identified themselves as Audu Umar and Hassan Umar […]

By Hasib Moukarim/Paris, France In such hard times, when things are tough, when the road is rough, and critical decisions are to be taken by the government in power, I believe it is time to look inward and focus on made-in-Nigeria goods and services. This is the time the Local Content Policy should rock, never […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will begin a week-long official visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Monday, February 22, his spokesman Femi Adesina said in a statement, a day after he returned from Egypt and not long after he visited France and the United Kingdom. Some Nigerians, including the governor of Ekiti State, had complained that President […]

10 Shares Share Tweet Share Email “The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff, on behalf of the National Working Committee (NWC) congratulates former Senate President David Mark on his victory in the last Saturday’s Benue South Senatorial re-run election,” PDP said in a statement on Sunday. The PDP noted that the development “leaves […]Read More

Nigeria’s Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to Ms. Monica Pinto UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers requesting her to “use your good offices and position to urgently prevail on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to suspend the judge involved in the alleged receipt of N225, 000 bribe.” The group also asked Ms […]Read More

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has called on PresidentMuhammadu Buhari to devalue the naira and “stop deceiving himself and short changing Nigerians” Mr. Fayose said “with the gap between the official rate of N199 and open market rate of over N400 to one dollar, Naira has already been devalued. Therefore, President Mohammadu Buhari must stop deceiving himself […]Read More

Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday, called for the rise of a new “tribe” of honest Nigerians who are totally incorruptible to populate Africa’s most nation’s private and public sectors. According to him, there is an urgent need to populate the country with this new tribe of Nigerians whose upright characters and exemplary attitudes will […]Read More

Updated: #BokoHaram Bombings In #Cameroon On Friday Killed 25 People – SimonAtebaNews 4 Shares Share Tweet Share Email The final death toll of Boko Haram suicide bombings in Cameroon on Friday was 25, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Local newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the double suicide bombing occured at Meme market, just 13 kilometres […]

Democracy has to be much better than any other forms of Governance for a number of reasons which we don’t need to over flog. But it is not without its flaws and we dare say the flaws are quite a lot. One major flaw democracy has at least from the perspective and experiences of Nigeria […]