COMMERCIAL activities were for more than three hours grounded in Benin City Centre popularly called Ring Road and adjourning streets as the Edo Civil Society Organizations, (EDOCSO) staffed an early morning protest against economic hardship in the country and called on the president to Bola Tinubu to address the problem of hunger in Nigeria or resign.

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The embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has appeared in the courtroom of the Federal High Court as his trial is set to commence today.

“Importing food abroad at this point will help reduce the hyper-inflation of food in the country. FG should allow the importation of food items for Nigerian consumption within the next two weeks.”

Everton’s penalty for breaching Premier League financial rules has been reduced from 10 points to six following an appeal, the English top flight announced on Monday.

Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, says the Light-Up Nigeria Project signals a new dawn for power and industrialisation of the South East region, saying other sectors would fall in place once power challenge is fixed.

The National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has urged President Bola Tinubu to roll out economic policies that will ameliorate the hardship currently being experienced in the country.

“Freeing the market is the right thing to do. And the reason we’re where we are is that something that I thought we had done before we already freed it was reintroduced. The control was reintroduced and that is what we now have to find our way out of.”

The League of Arab States on Monday called Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories an “affront to international justice”, saying failure to end it amounted to “genocide”.