Rising debt: IMF urges FG to boost revenue, cut waste
The Fund also backed targeted transport subsidies to cushion vulnerable Nigerians against rising fuel costs, warning that blanket subsidies are expensive and less effective than directing assistance to those who need it most.
Insecurity: Protesters block Mokwa-Bida highway over persistent banditry
One of the protesters, Saliu Mohammed, claimed that suspected bandits recently abducted 15 residents of the community.
NDLEA busts drug syndicates shipping cocaine in phone chargers, backpacks to Saudi Arabia, Europe
…Nabs Italy-based businessman at Enugu airport with 98 cocaine wraps By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA — The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has foiled attempts by suspected drug trafficking syndicates to export 1.2 kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in 25 phone chargers to Saudi Arabia through a courier company in Lagos. The agency also intercepted another […]
Six days to Osun election: 18 ‘killed’ as fears of more violence mount
Fresh fears of further violence have gripped Osun State ahead of the August 15 governorship election, with the two major opposition parties, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Accord Party, claiming to have lost a combined 18 members in the build-up to the poll.
Ibadan meeting: Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso still have opportunity for grand alliance — Ologbondiyan
Few opposition figures have witnessed Nigeria’s political twists and realignments from as close a vantage point as Kola Ologbondiyan. A former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he now serves as Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Senator David Mark, placing him at the centre of fresh efforts to forge a formidable opposition ahead of the 2027 general election….
‘Lagos is not Rivers’ – PDP tackles Wike over Bode George
“And who gave you the authority to determine which legitimate aspiration of a party member should live or die?”
