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Barely 19 months to the end of his administration, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday directed ministers and permanent secretaries to redouble their efforts and work in synergy toward total delivery of the set target to improve livelihood of all Nigerians. He gave the directive at the end of the two-day mid-term ministerial performance review retreat at […]

Despite being vaccinated against the coronavirus disease, Nigerians may be required to take extra shots of the vaccine to stay safe. This is according to the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi. He made the remark on Tuesday during a briefing in Ikeja, the state capital. “So we know that the vaccine is […]

The president of the Association of Capital market Academics and Nigeria’s first professor of capital market, Uche Uwaleke has said the Naira has suffered several devaluations in the recent past, and doing so yet again is a recipe for high poverty and unemployment levels. Uwalake was responding to the comment of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo who […]

Chidinma Ojukwu has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga. The 22-year-old did so on Tuesday when she and one Adedapo Quadri, who are the key suspects in the murder case were arraigned before Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square. Both suspects […]

A human right organisation, Save the Children International, has said that child marriage kills over 60 girls daily. The organisation quoting a report said it had been estimated that 44 per cent of girls in Nigeria get married before their 18th birthday, one of the highest rate of child marriage globally. The organisation said these […]

Over 50 per cent of Nigerian women are offline, with no access to the internet, while 20 per cent were less likely than men to own smart phones, creating an exclusion gap, the United Nations Children’s Fund lamented on Monday. The organisation also expressed concern over the rate at which adolescent girls in Nigeria drop […]

Nigerian naira on Monday opened the week’s trading at N570 per dollar at the market – as vice president Yemi Osinbajo called for the devaluation of the currency. Street traders across forex markets in Lagos quoted the naira at N570 to a dollar. Since the suspension of trading information by abokiFX — citizens have resorted to street […]

A former governor of Anambra State and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, Peter Obi, has said he was a trader who ventured into banking before he became a governor. Obi said this during an interview on The Morning Show, an Arise TV programme that aired on Monday. This is amid […]

The presidency has set aside a whopping N1.6 billion for purchase of vehicles and spares. This is contained in the budget proposal President Muhammadu Buhari presented to a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday. The N16.39 trillion budget has a deficit of N6.26 trillion. The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, had said the […]

Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCG), Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to spearhead the change of the 1999 constitution.  He said the constitution is the harbinger of the problem confronting Nigeria, describing it as “a glorified death certificate.” Speaking in his state of the station broadcast, Bakare challenged […]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says President Muhammadu Buhari is Nigeria’s most popular politician in generations. The Vice President said this during an interactive session with top officials of Nigeria’s High Commission in the United Kingdom on Saturday. Osinbajo said the popularity and credibility of Buhari are crucial factors needed in galvanising the entire system to resolve […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said improving security, the economy and fighting corruption are still the core priorities of his administration, six years after the triad of promises first won him the presidential election. The President made the remark in Kaduna at the Passing Out Parade for Cadets of 68 Regular Course (Army, Navy and […]

 Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the special counsel to the incarcerated leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Bi­afra, (IPOB), has cried out that the right of his client is being trampled upon. In a statement made available to SUNDAY IN­DEPENDENT at the week­end, Ejimakor lamented that the IPOB leader’s case was being unnecessarily delayed in court. He […]

Marketers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, well known as cooking gas, on Saturday, expressed worry over the supply shortage leading to persistent increase in the price of the commodity. They warned that 12.5kg of cooking gas currently selling between N7,500 and N8,000 could rise to N10,000 before December if nothing was done to address the crisis. […]

President Buhari will spend a total of N12.5bn in terms of expenditure on the Presidential Air Fleet in 2022. This is according to the breakdown of the 2022 Appropriation Bill currently before the National Assembly. Buhari presented the fiscal document to a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday. The Minister of Finance, Budget […]