DEBT BURDEN: Nigeria needs help, says AfDB’s Adesina
PRESIDENT of the African Development Bank, AfDB, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has said Nigeria needs help from the international community in tackling its debt burden. Speaking at the Nigeria International Economic Partnership Forum in New York, yesterday, Adesina said financing is critical to solving Nigeria’s development challenges. “Financing is critical because the debt to GDP ratio […]
PAP: Ex-N’Delta militants back Buhari on Ndiomu’s appointment
By Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT— Ex-Niger Delta agitators have thrown their weight behind the appointment of Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu (retd), as the new Interim Administrator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP. National Secretary, First Phase Ex-agitators, Nature Keighe, in a statement in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday, hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for not allowing any vacuum […]
Aisha Buhari’s insensitive showboating
Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, returned to the public glare after a prolonged time off, to engage in what many Nigerians see as an obscene show-off with a tweet she published on her verified handle on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. She was pictured celebrating the graduation of Zahra, her son’s wife, from a United […]
Ukraine war: Russians flee to border after military call-up
QUEUES have sprung up along Russia’s border as men attempt to leave the country amid a military call-up for the war in Ukraine.
CNN’s Amanpour refuses Iranian President’s demand to wear headscarf for interview
CNN’s Chief International Anchor, Christiane Amanpour said yesterday she turned down the first-ever interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on U.S. soil after he demanded she wears a headscarf during the filming.
No way out of misery for Nigerians?
By Adekunle Adekoya “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables AS an individual, I ponder my situation and that of fellow country men and women and I simply shudder at what we have to endure on a daily basis as we […]
