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Petrol subsidy removal not to be implemented until after June, says Tinubu’s media officials

“The panic-buying that has ensued as a result of the communication is needless; it will not take immediate effect’’ President Bola Tinubu’s...

Ahead of inauguration, NGF to induct new, returning governors May 15-19

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is set to conduct an induction for incoming and returning governors ahead of the May 29 inauguration....

Brain drain: Can 5-year compulsory service bill curb Nigerian medical doctors’emigration to other countries?

What the proposed legislation may achieve if passed into law would be to increase the pool of unemployed and disenchanted Nigerians rather...

Organ harvesting: Ex-Pres. Obasanjo writes UK govt, pleads for clemency for Ekweremadu, wife

Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has risen to the occasion by writing to the United Kingdom government to temper justice with mercy...

NSIA’s Audited Financial Results: Net Assets Grow By 10.5% To N1.02trn and volatility, headwinds across markets

In spite of volatility and headwinds across markets, the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), managers of Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund, has recorded...

Tony Elumelu, the last man standing

By Simbo Olorunfemi The 20 years between 1985 and 2005, especially the 90s in between, must pass as the most consequential years...

U.S. to repatriate $954,000 ex-Bayelsa Gov. Alamieyeseigha loot

The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, has signed an agreement with the Nigerian Government officials to repatriate funds stolen by the...

Turkey-Syria earthquake, deadliest ever, death toll exceeds 28,000

... more than a week after, rescuers have pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble on Sunday

Reprieve as Abuja court vacates interim forfeiture order on Ekweremadu’s 44 properties

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday came down hard on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),...

China’s Population Falls For First Time Since 1961

By Tosin Deba China’s population has fallen for the first time in 60 years with the national birth rate hitting a record...

Buhari’s ally, Pastor Bakare spits fire, urges Nigerians to reject Tinubu’s politics of entitlement at the polls

"This is the moment for a new breed of leaders to emerge; a new breed of leaders that can situate themselves between...

Reverse hike in electricity tariff now or face litigation, SERAP tells Pres. Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to intervene in the furtive raise of electricity tariff in December 2022 by the Nigerian Electricity...

Medical doctor’s murder over patient’s death in hospital angers NMA, talks tough

The killing of a medical doctor, Dr Uyi Iluobe, by relatives of a patient, who died at a hospital in Oghara, Delta...

SERAP hauls Buhari to court over trillions of Naira sunk into poverty alleviation, social safety-nets

For failing to investigate the several trillions of Naira allegedly spent on all social safety-nets and poverty alleviation programmes and projects between...

U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Secretary of State, Blinken, Tony Elumelu, convene U.S.-African entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers forum

About 300 entrepreneurs, investors, and celebrities have participated in the opening reception for the US-Africa Leaders Summit, the investment-focused “Innovators Gathering”, honoring...

US-Africa Leader’s Summit:US commits $55 billion to Africa

The US on Tuesday welcomed dozens of African leaders to a summit aimed at strengthening partnerships across the continent. Persecondnews.com gathered that one...