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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged the nine oil-producing states in Nigeria to provide and widely publish details of spending of the oil derivation refunds of N625 billion recently paid to them by the Federal…

Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP visited the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi ahead of the 2023 presidential election. During his visit to the monarch, Kwankwaso inaugurated NNPP’s campaign offices in Osun and…

Senator Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the APC presidential candidate, has said that youth empowerment and girl-child education are key priorities to her husband, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and that both will be prioritised if he is elected at the…

The Makurdi Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, December 8, 2022, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Oblete Sunday Nazarethe before Justice N. I. Afolabi of the Federal High Court,…

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Workers, NUPENG, has directed members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, and others involved in the distribution of petrol and other products to be at their duty posts round the clock to ensure…

Nigeria’s public debt reached N44.6 trillion in the third quarter of this year (Q3 in 2022). This represents a 2.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter decline when compared to N42.84 trillion recorded in Q2 in 2022. The Debt Management Office,…

The Federal Government said it had developed a National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy with accompanying Vision 30:30:30 to add 30,000MW of electricity by the year 2030. Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu said this in…

Pope Francis broke down and cried as he mentioned the travails of Ukrainians during a traditional prayer in central Rome on Thursday. The traditional prayer took place at Madonna, at the foot of a statue on the Feast of the Immaculate…

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, says the newly redesigned Naira notes are already in banks and ready for issuance. According to a statement in CBN’s official twitter handle, Emefiele said so in…

Jaylen Smith has become the youngest Black mayor in the United States after being elected in a runoff election. Smith, 18, defeated Nemi Matthews Sr. in a runoff election to emerge the mayor of Earle, Arkansas. Smith had 218 votes,…