•As currency outside banks increased by N108.67bn to N2.84trn in October BY GODDY OBINWA Damaged Naira notes continue to surface following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) redesign of the nation’s currency unveiled by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, November 23, 2022. But in a video making rounds on socialContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has revealed how he will move Nigeria from consumption to production if he is elected president in 2023. For quite a while, the LP Flagbearer has been of the opinion that only a move to moreContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBI A fire outbreak that started around 2am on Monday razed two blocks of shops at the Kano Street section of the Main Market in Onitsha, Anambra State. Although the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, the Anambra State Fire Service has since deployed itsContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBI The police have succeeded in arresting 25-year-old private school teacher, Umar Isah for allegedly sexually assaulting five female schoolchildren in his class whom he repeatedly lured into the toilet to fondle their private parts. The incident occurred at Dutsi Local Government Area of Katsina State North-West NigeriaContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA Former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain and wife of the late Igbo leader, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, yesterday, said that the Igbo are missing her husband, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, at this critical moment in the nation’s history. She said that the people of Southeast, in particular, lack strong,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that its in-house model-based simulations indicate that inflation rate could fall steadily to less than 15 per cent by the end of 2023. This was even as the apex bank reiterated that it is determined to maintain its stableContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA A human rights advocate, Mikar Ojokoro, has condemned alleged threats and defamatory comments against Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a legal counsel to the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, by Simon Ekpa, describing it as offensive and unacceptable. In a statement by Ojokoro which wasContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Ahead of the 2023 governorship poll in Oyo State, unfolding events have shown that the era of political thuggery and hooliganism might return if all hands are not on deck to tackle the menace headlong. The fear, as gathered, stemmed from the political violence that preceded theContinue Reading
■ Says scarcity caused by shortage in fuel supply BY GODDY OBINWA As the fuel shortage continues to bite harder, the South West Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Mr Tajudeen Adigun, has warned that the scarcity might extend to the Yuletide season unless it isContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Friday congratulated his rival in the 2023 race, Atiku Abubakar, on the occasion of the latter’s 76th birthday. Mr Abubakar is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. “My Dear Elder Brother, HE Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, IContinue Reading