Politics

Evangelist Ernest Uzoho Men will rather fight to be free than live in palaces as slaves. The free Biafra agitation is not because the Biafra land is impoverished, that is a fat lie. There is no Nigeria region that is not impoverished, and the worst hit is northern Nigeria. That is why the soon coming people’s revolution against tyranny will …

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Olabode Adaramola Niger state government has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to declare former deputy governorship candidate on the platform of the  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the  2015 general elections, Hon. Isah Liman  Kantigi  wanted after over N6 billion belonging to the state government has been linked to him. The state Commissioner for Information , …

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The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has pumped a total $380million within two days into the Foreign Exchange Market. And the effect: a further strengthening of the Naira. The first tranche of $280m was released on Tuesday, On Wednesday, the bank offered additional $100 million to authorised dealers to meet the 7 to 15-day forwards requests of customers. Okorafor attributed …

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Olabode Adaramola Niger State governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has approved the conduct of an independent forensic audit of the operations of Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) in the state. This, according to the governor,  is to unravel  funds discrepancies in the operation of the scheme in the Local Government Councils, Local Government Service Commission and Niger State Universal Basic Education …

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The former Acting National Vice Chairman Southwest zone of the Peoples Democratic Party Engr. Deji Doherty, has berated Chief Bode George for calling on the two factions of PDP to fight to finish. Doherty who is also a former governorship aspirant of the party in Lagos State in a chat with our correspondent over the weekend in his office stated …

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Olabode Adaramola Niger State Governor, Alhaji  Abubakar Sani Bello,  has said that plans are underway to partner with the federal government to commence  the construction of four major critical  roads in the state. Governor Sani Bello stated this in Lapai, headquarters of Lapai Local Government , during his mid-term assessment tour of the 25 Local Governments of the state over …

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Details of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Vision for oil-producing communities in the Niger Delta, is emerging as an idea is now being worked out to explore how some of the illegal refiners and the local communities in the region can become shareholders in the proposed Modular refineries concept of the Federal Government, presidency sources have disclosed. The consideration going …

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Organised Labour under the aegis of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has threatened to shut down activities of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) at the Federal level “unless the Government takes urgent steps to pay promotion arrears, outstanding salaries and other allowances owed Federal Public Servants in the next few weeks”. Giving this indication in Lagos on …

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OLABODE ADARAMOLA Former military president General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has a military wing, which membership comprises of top Generals. He said the members of the party’s military wing include himself, Lt General Theophillus Yakubu Danjuma, General Olusegun Obasanjo General Aliyu Mohammed among others. Speaking while receiving report of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi committee on …

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The African Development Bank will launch an $850m agriculture programme to transform the sector and reduce food imports in Africa. The Director of Agriculture in the bank, Dr Chiji Ojukwu, said, on the sideline of the International Conference on Wheat in Abuja on Tuesday, that the project, to be called Technology for African Agricultural Transformation, would ensure the generation, sustainable …

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