Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday, accused the Department of State Services, DSS, of denying him access to his medications for nine days. He also accused the secret police of starving him of food. Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor disclosed this after his routine meeting with the IPOB leader at the DSS facility. A […]
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United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday met the leaders of African nations that hold elections in the new year to press for a free vote. On the sidelines of a summit that has brought most African leaders to Washington, Biden and his top aides met separately with a group of six leaders as part of his democracy push. The […]
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As the federal government continues to search for a lasting solution to the bleeding in the oil sector, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) yesterday revealed that in the period spanning between 2009 and 2020, Nigeria lost as much as 619.7 million barrels of crude oil valued at N16.25 trillion to oil theft. In a statement signed by the […]
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• Cautions supporters against ‘baseless conspiracy theories’ • Insists polls will be one genuine voter-one vote, no PVC-no voting • Rigging will be impossible in 2023 general elections, says AIG • Committee on election security assures of credible polls in Kano Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, declared affirmatively that disappointment awaits politicians “still going about purchasing Permanent Voter […]
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The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has confirmed that Nigeria produced 171,000 barrels per day in November, still about 700,000 barrels per day less than its quota for the month. Making the disclosure in its Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) for December, OPEC stated that considering direct oil production report from the country, Nigeria’s output increased by about 171,000 […]
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The naira, on Monday, exchanged at N446 to the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window. The figure represented an appreciation by 0.11 per cent, compared with the N446.50 it exchanged at the close of business on December 9. The open indicative rate closed at N445.20 to the dollar on Monday. An exchange rate of N450 to the dollar was […]
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No fewer than 16 wedding guests, including four children, were taken away by a band of kidnappers, who reportedly struck at Gaube community in Gwargwada Chiefdom of Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. A resident of the area, Shuaibu Dantani, who gave details of the incident on Monday, December 12, said that the victims, who were […]
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Ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lamented that politicians now purchase Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, to rig and mar the credibility of the exercise. This disclosure is coming as voters across the 774 local government areas across the country troop out to collect their PVCs. This process commenced on 12th December and […]
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A prominent member and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has said he will not vote for his party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in next year’s presidential election, unless the issue of inclusivity in the party is addressed. George disclosed this on Tuesday morning while featuring on the Arise Television Morning Show programme. Recall that he had […]
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The crisis between the Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the five aggrieved PDP governors may be far from over, this is even as the duo of Governors Samuel Ortom and Nyesom Wike shunned Atiku at the Makurdi Airport in Benue State. Mr Abubakar whose presidential campaign is billed to hold in Nasarawa State on Monday decided […]
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