•Peter Obi Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) at the 2023 polls, Peter Obi, today tackled the federal government over the “exclusion” of the North Central Development Commission (NCDC) from the 2025 budgetary allocations. He observed that the sum of N2.493 trillion was allocated to five other regional development commissions, whil...
The Organised Private Sector has kicked against the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria to limit the withdrawals from Point-of-Sale agents, stressing that the apex bank is not in touch with reality. CBN introduced a daily cash-out transaction limit of N100,000 per individual customer for Point-of-Sale agents as part of new measures to adva...
•NLC President, Joe Ajaero The Nigerian Labour Congress has described the drop in Nigeria’s unemployment rate released in a report by the National Bureau of Statistics yesterday as fiction, stressing that it contradicts reality. The NLC’s position was corroborated by the Organised Private Sector, with the OPS stating that the report was not re...
•Embattled former CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele The embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has filed applications to challenge the forfeiture of his assets to the Federal Government by the court. Since his removal from office, the Federal High Court, through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has ...
•Momodu and Fayose Prominent journalist and publisher, Chief Dele Momodu has criticised former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose over his recent comments that poor men having multiple wives and children is a hindrance to Nigeria’s growth. Fayose in an interview with Channels TV yesterday, claimed that poor men having many wives and children, ci...
•Protest leader Damilare Adenola (L) and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike One of the arrowheads of the planned #EndBadGovernance protest against economic hardship slated for August says the Eagle Square in Abuja is a public property and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike has no choice than to allow “hungry Nigerian youths”...
•Bayo Onanuga Ohanaeze Ndigbo has condemned what it called “Bayo Onanuga’s bizarre dispositions towards anything Igbo” and urged him to channel his energy towards helping President Bola Tinubu to address the challenges facing the country. Ohanaeze Ndigbo wondered why the presidential spokesman always harbours “unthoughtful, loathsome, cantanke...
•MASSOB The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has dismissed the opposition of Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, over the clamour for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from his “unlawful and illegal detention”, describing it as “completely inconsequential and irrelevant”. MASSOB descri...
•Emefiele Olalekan Ojo (SAN), lawyer to the former governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has criticized the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over its approach to prosecution of the defendant over an alleged gratifications, abuse of office and others. The lawyer who is representing Emefiele in his trial before ...
•Keyamo and Kila Renowned political economist and Commonwealth Institute Director, Prof. Anthony Kila, has condemned the order by the aviation minister, Festus Keyamo, to suspend operations of Dana Airline. The Frontier reports that the minister has directed the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to suspend Dana Air, a day after one of t...

