BY GODWIN OBI A new Igbo socio-cultural organization named ‘Igboezuo Development Union’ has been unveiled in LagosThe organization, which ended the year with hopes high for the entire Igbos in Lagos state, seeks to protect the interests of Ndigbo in various aspects of life. Speaking at the Year-End-Party of theContinue Reading
•Seizes 5,460.34kgs of skunk in 6 states BY GODDY OBINWA The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted at least 1,760,460 pills of Tramadol and other opioids hidden in Indomie noodles packs and others at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos as well as in Gombe State.Continue Reading
•Old notes shouldn’t be in ATMs – Experts BY EFE MODESTUS Five days after the Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) began dispensing the newly-redesigned naira notes, depositors are lamenting the scarcity of fresh currency, as banks have continued to dish out the old notes slated to be binned by January 31,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has lambasted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over what he described as unwarranted media trial of the Kogi State Government as regards the fresh case against a nephew of the Governor and the previousContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBI The National Agency for Food and Drug, Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has again discovered another warehouse in Lagos, where unregistered food products, including sardines, cooking spices, and tomato pastes worth millions of Naira were stashed. The agency had earlier in the week uncovered a warehouse in LagosContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Twenty-four hours after the Central Bank of Nigeria directed deposit money banks to start giving the redesigned naira notes to customers, partygoers, high net worth customers and currency traffickers are mopping up the new notes from the banks even as the notes are being rationed to theContinue Reading
‘ BY GODWIN OBI People of South East extraction living in Finland would be meeting tomorrow to deliberate on the unending sit-at-home orders in the region and the consequences of such orders. A splinter group purporting to be Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been issuing sit-at-home orders, unleashing violenceContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBI The apex Igbo body said the completion of the all-important bridge was indicative that the president could still use the remaining few months in office to pursue some other transcendental objectives which will write his name with gold in the sands of time. National Publicity Secretary ofContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBI The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi has condemned what he described as the “targeted killing” of the party’s house of assembly candidate in Imo State Christopher Eleghu. Eleghu was killed by assailants in the early hours of Friday in his home with the attackers burningContinue Reading
BY ADOLPHUS DURU Nigeria’s inflation rate which began its upward trajectory has berthed at 21.47 per cent in November, 2022 as against October rate of 21.09 per cent. In a statement obtained from the website of National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the high food inflation rate in November 2022 wasContinue Reading