A  Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) survey report has shown that businesses and consumers’ confidence in the country’s economy will rise this month.

THE story of Nigeria is a dramatic irony; it is a geographic space of inequality where wealth and suffering both coexist in abundance. With so much wealth, many Nigerians also suffer so much on a range of issues, from education to health, infrastructure and food and human insecurities. Over 13 million children are out of school and more than 23 million Nigerians are unemployed. The working majority are underpaid while the ‘doing nothing minority’ get welcome packages in billions with several millions of commonwealth money stuffed in their pockets for wardrobe and furniture allowances. To earn their illicit billions, they do not set up committees to determine if indeed the country can afford it. But in the same country, where ‘justice shall reign’ exists only in our national anthem and never practised by those who sing it; the real working public workers must wait for months before N30, 000 is paid to them.

Chairman of Nigerian Young Professionals Forum, NYP, Moses Siloko Siasia has blamed some governors in the Niger Delta region for not fully tapping into what he called the economic potentials of the region, saying they are creating an army of youths who may soon rise up against the zone.

Skin on your hands can become discoloured, with an uneven, dull texture that is more revealing of age than wrinkles. The culprits: natural aging (skin gets thinner over time) and photo ageing (sun exposure causes age spots).

Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that ‘God is a Nigerian if not, the country would have ceased to exist’.

The people of Agbada Nenwe in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State, members of the Hausa/Fulani community and Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, in the South-East geo-political zone, have denied the video trending on social media on the purported expulsion of some herders and their cattle out of the community.

Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State, yesterday, said he and his deputy, Gerald Irona, are still operating from makeshift offices.

ONITSHA—Anambra State chairman of Vigilante Supervisory Committee/Senior Special Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano on Vigilante Matters, Chief Ikechukwu Aduba, a retired Commissioner of Police, has warned that if Miyetti Allah goes ahead to establish a vigilante operation in the state and, by extension, in any part of South-East zone, they would apply legal means to stop them.

THE Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, worldwide, yesterday,  rejected in its totality, the Federal Government’s proposed Ruga settlement for herdsmen, insisting that it was a subtle attempt by the government to forcefully cede lands across the country to the Fulani people who constitute less than five per cent of Nigeria’s total population.

THE Bayelsa State Broadcasting Corporation also known as Glory FM 97.1 located along Azikoro road, in the State capital has been gutted by fire.

LAFIA—A four-year-old boy, whose identity was given as Ritse Micah, has been reportedly killed and dumped in an open well in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.

By Bashir Bello The District Head of Daura and President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown, Musa Uba, has regained his freedom after over sixty days in the captive of his kidnappers. The Katsina State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, in the early hours of Tuesday confirmed the release of the District head (Magajin Garin Daura). […]

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC ) on Monday night announced the re-election of Nigeria’s Mohammed Barkindo as Secretary General for a three-year tenure.

Yenagoa—A pregnant policewoman and three other officers on duty were, yesterday morning, killed by gunmen that invaded Agudama-Ekpetiama Police Station in Yenagoa Local Government of Bayelsa State.

Opposition has continued to mount against the Federal Government’s Ruga settlement programme for herdsmen in the country, as the South East governors insisted, yesterday, that there was no land for it in the region, even as Benue State government debunked claims by the Presidency that land had been gazetted in Benue and others states for the settlement.