[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Warns Against Shutting Out Southeast from Presidency in 2023. The founder and Bishop of The City of Refuge Ministries International, Oscar Okwudili Ossai has warned of dire consequences if in 2023, Nigeria did not accommodate the aspiration of the Igbo nation for the presidency. Ossai also stated that it would have been surprising…
Court Workers Down Tools in Rivers
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Court workers in Rivers State on Tuesday locked the gates of the judiciary complex in Port Harcourt as part of actions to execute a nationwide strike called by the Judiciary Staff union of Nigeria, JUSUN that called out its members on strike to demand the implementation of Presidential Executive Order authorizing financial autonomy…
Nigeria Begins COVID-19 Vaccination Friday
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] If the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, which arrived Nigeria Tuesday passes the test by the Nigeria Agency for Drug and Food Administration, NAFDAC, vaccination will begin Friday. According to Boss Mustapha, chairman of the Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19 and secretary to the government of the Federation, SGF, who took delivery of the…
IMF: “The Nigerian Economy at Critical Juncture.”
[responsivevoice] The International Monetary Fund, IMF, in its latest Country Report on Nigeria released on Monday, February 8, said the Nigerian economy is “lackluster” and at “a critical juncture” amidst the roiling COVID-19 pandemic crisis, and is “grappling with multiple shocks” thereof. This was reinforced by a weak pre-crisis economy marked by falling per capita…
Onne People Picking Up The Pieces After The Storm (Photo)
[responsivevoice] After the ferocious storm that swept through the town of Onne, Eleme Local Government Area, the host community of Nigeria’s second largest seaport on Monday, the people have begun fixing their damaged homes and shops. The storm, which came with the rains felled more than a hundred power pillars and aluminium conductors, which crushed…
FG in Dilemma over Surge in COVID-19 Cases
[responsivevoice] The Federal Government of Nigeria is facing an unenviable dilemma over the resurgence of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria. As at Monday January 4, a total of 1,204 new cases, the highest daily incidence since the first case on February 27, 2020, were reported across the country with Lagos State confirming the highest figure of…
I Have no Interest in Coming Back as Chairman – Oshiomhole
[responsivevoice] Former National Chairman of the All Progressives congress, APC and immediate past governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole says he remains resolute about his position of accepting the dissolution of the national working committee, NWC of the party led by him. According to Oshiomhole, “That chapter of my political life is closed”. Oshiomhole stated…
Recession: Peter Obi Predicts Long Haul for Nigeria, Warns Economy may Run Out of Control
Former vice presidential candidate in the 2019 general election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and one-time governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has predicted that the present recession that Nigeria has slipped into would be worse than what it was in 2016. Obi, a businessman and financial expert, also painted a…
If Nigeria Dies, Hatred Killed Her – Femi Adesina
What a week it has been for our own dear native land! Just at the beginning of the month, as the country turned 60 as an independent entity, President Muhammadu Buhari had charged us to “begin sincere process of national healing, eliminate old and outworn perceptions that are always put to test in the lie…
“We Must Join Hands to Fight Criminals in Our Midst”, Says S/African Envoy
Thami Mseleku, the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, has called for a concerted effort between Nigeria and South Africa to isolate criminals creating bad image for the two countries. The new envoy made this call when he led a delegation of South African officials to pay a courtesy call on Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/Chief…
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