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Buhari seeks NASS approval for fresh $4bn, €710m external loans, pushing Nigeria’s debt to over N35 trn

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   “On July 7, 2021, the Senate had approved a loan request of N2.343 trillion, approximately $6 billion...

Notes From Osun At 30

  by Reuben Abati   On Thursday, September 9, I participated in a Colloquium titled “Osun at 30: Celebrating a Milestone, Building a...

Revealed: Chief Justice of Nigeria earn trifling N279, 497 monthly, other judges earn as low as N206,425, N166,285

  …urges federal and state governments to live up to their obligations under the implementation of Financial Autonomy of State Legislature and the...

Famed South Korean Pastor, David Yongi Cho, departs the world

  …authored many Christian books including the most read — the Holy Spirit, My Senior Partner, the Fourth Dimension, Unleashing the Power of...

COVID-19: Delta variant full of surprises, dominant in Nigeria, FG says

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh The Federal Government has alerted that the Delta variant of COVID-19 is “full of surprises” and dominant in...

Three-month Twitter suspension: Nigeria loses N247.6bn

  “The NetBlocks Cost of Shutdown Tool, the blockade costs Nigeria’s economy N103.17 million ($250,600) every hour. So far, about 2,400 hours have...

Just in: Another jail break in Kogi, 2 soldiers shot dead, 240 inmates freed

  A midnight attack by gunmen on Sunday on the Medium Security Custodial Centre (prison) in Kabba, Kogi State, leaving two soldiers dead...

Ex-Governor in Northern Nigeria, after closed-door meeting with Obasanjo, says Nigeria is bleeding profusely

  Upset by the hemming in of Nigerians amid deteriorating insecurity in the country, a former Jigawa Governor Sule Lamido, says Nigeria is...

Nigeria requires between $3 and $5 billion annual spending in power sector in next 15 years, says Schneider Electric

  In a bid to actualize Nigeria’s industrialization goals, stakeholders in the nation’s power sector have been urged to upscale their investment in...

Suspension of internet in Zamfara, Katsina: Reverse it now, SERAP tells Buhari

  “Shutdowns exert significant chilling effects, with direct implications on participatory democracy, whose existence depends upon an active and informed citizenry capable of...

Constituency projects: House of Representatives get N10.9bn, each member pockets N100m

The 109 members of the House of Representatives receive annually N10.9 billion with each lawmaker getting an envelope of N100 million, according to...

300 #ENSARs protesters still languishing in Lagos prisons without trial — New Nigeria Network

  “It is disheartening to note how the system is mangling the lives and destinies of those captured by government over #EndSARS disturbances...

Stamp duties: 36 states’ Attorneys-General haul Justice Minister, Malami to Supreme Court, demand N176bn collected from 2015 -2020

  For its failure to remit revenue generated from stamp duties into the accounts of the 36 state governments, the Federal Government has...

Nov. 6 Anambra polls: FG threatens to breathe down the necks of trouble makers, separatist groups

  A strong warning has been given to separatist groups in the Southeast that the Federal Government would not fold its arms and...