The Federal government has accused the Government of Canada of a double standard in the way protesters deemed to be violent are perceived in Nigeria and in the West. 

“Dishonesty both in thought and deed were the prime bases of the Nigerian troubles.” Robert Collis, Nigeria in Conflict, p.187 (1970)

The tight trade in the international oil market since this year may have started impacting on the domestic foreign exchange market as positive sentiment strengthens the local currency. 

THE latest episode in the Nigerian drama of governance is the importation of at least 100 million litres of contaminated PMS which knocked car engines.

The Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has filed One million US Dollars,  ($1,000,000 U.S.), (Five hundred and sixty million Naira) equivalent as general damages, for each day he has been imprisoned in the Benin Republic, before the Community Court of Justice, the Economic Community of West African States,(ECOWAS) in Abuja against the Republic of Benin.

By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA— FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, commended Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State for his inclusive approach to governance and his reverence for God. Speaking at the Ecumenical Centre in Yenagoa, during the second anniversary thanksgiving of the Diri administration, Jonathan noted that God had a reason for everything under the sun, […]

“Inflation shock alone pushed about eight million more Nigerians below the poverty line in 2020 and 2021” — World Bank, February 4, 2022, in National Development Update report 2021

By Festus Ahon & Ochuko Akuopha UGHELLI—Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, weekend, warned communities against bloodletting over boundary disputes, lamenting the spate of  disagreements leading to loss of lives in some communities. Speaking at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Uzere, Isoko South Local Government Area of the state during the funeral service of renowned boundary […]

By Henry Umoru – Abuja The Senate has summoned the management of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, over contracts scam put at N100 billion. The Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo State-led Senate Committee on Public Accounts that is probing the NDDC, said it will personalize any refund that would be traceable to an […]

fter serious deliberations that dragged into the early hours of Monday, the National Executive Council, NEC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has voted to embark on one-month warning strike to press home its demands from the government.