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Victor Osimhen to Replace Cristiano Ronaldo At Manchester United?

4Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Sports, Youths

Victor Osimhen to Replace Cristiano Ronaldo At Manchester United?

Manchester United are making efforts to find a suitable replacement for their unsettled legend, Cristiano Ronaldo with Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen being targeted. Ronaldo, disgruntled with United’s inconsistency in the league, have been reported to be considering his career somewhere else in the summer The five-time Ballon d'Or winner is not a long-term solution to the Red Devils' struggles in the attacking department based on his age with the team rather looking at younger options. United who played a goalless draw with relegation battlers, Watford over the weekend, have expressed interest in Napoli striker Victor Osimhen. Italian transfer expert Ciro Venerato reports United have enquired about Osimhen, with the former Lille man told he can leave Italy during...

IGP Warns Officers Against Using Roadblocks To Extort Money

3Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Corruption, News, Nigeria, Security

IGP Warns Officers Against Using Roadblocks To Extort Money

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, on Tuesday warned police officers in the Federal Capital (FCT) to not use crime prevention measures such as roadblocks and raids for extortion. Baba, who spoke in Abuja at FCT Command during a one-day duty tour, specifically handed this warning to the Divisional Police Officers (DPOs), Area Commanders, and Police Tactical Teams, saying their functions as security agents should not create difficult situations for road users and other law-abiding citizens. See Also: Heavy Security Deployment Not To Intimidate Voters, Says IGP, Warns IPOB He said, “We must ensure that they serve the purpose for which they are deployed. Don’t raid because you want to detain people and begin to ask for bail. Don’t be on the road doing stop and...

Nigeria In Process Of Total Collapse ― Jega

3Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Nigeria In Process Of Total Collapse ― Jega

The former Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, Wednesday said that Nigeria is in the process of collapsing, alleging that reckless elite in control of the governance process are blindly running the country aground.The former INEC boss, who stated this in Abuja at the 2022 Workers’ Political Conference organized by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, said considering the current situation in the country, 2023 general elections may be the ‘make or break’ epochal moment.Painting a gloomy of the situation in the country, Prof. Jega said that Nigeria is, undoubtedly, at a point in its history when the issue of national emancipation for credible national development, beneficial to the Nigerian people, requires being raised high on the fron...

2Mar

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Legislature, News, Nigeria

Senate Passes LG Autonomy Bill

The Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, passed the Bill granting full autonomy to the local government and council areas in Nigeria. Ninety-Two members of the red chambers voted overwhelmingly in support of the Bill, after a clause-by-clause consideration at the Committee on the Whole. Source: Daily Post

2Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Kwankwaso Sets To Dump PDP For NNPP

Barring any last-minute change, the former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, is set to once again dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP. Already Senator Kwankwaso on Tuesday met with the leadership of NNPP in a bid to finalize his coming to the party which he is expected to use for his presidential ambition. The outgoing National Secretary of the party, Ambassador Agbo Gilbert Major, disclosed this in Abuja, on the sidelines of the Special National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting. He said the meeting was aimed at making crucial decisions that will reposition the party ahead of the 2023 general elections. According to him, in a few days' time, the two-time Kano State governor would join the party alongside h...

Nigerians To Pay More For Bread As Russia-Ukraine War Rages

1Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Violence

Nigerians To Pay More For Bread As Russia-Ukraine War Rages

The price of bread, one of the most commonly eaten staples in most Nigerian homes is set to rise if the current Russian-Ukrainian war persists. Russia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat, accounting for more than 18 percent of international exports. The downside to the war is that if supply from Russia is distorted for whatever reason, Nigeria could be faced with further surging wheat prices in its local market as a result of the supply gap, which could lead to an increase in the price of some other by-products of wheat, such as bread, wheat meal amongst others. The price of bread was increased by more than 80 per cent between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN) had hinted at a 50 per cent increase in the price of b...

Jonathan’s Govt Tried To Bend Electoral System Against Buhari – Garba Shehu

1Mar

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Elections, News, Nigeria

Jonathan’s Govt Tried To Bend Electoral System Against Buhari – Garba Shehu

The Presidency has disclosed that President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration worked assiduously to bend the electoral system in its bid to scuttle the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 presidential election. The Presidency has disclosed that President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration worked assiduously to bend the electoral system in its bid to scuttle the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 presidential election. The Presidency’s position was contained in a statement signed on Monday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, titled, ‘Assent into law of the electoral act 2022: Landmark moment for the nation’. The Presidency argued that Jonathan’s government tried everything within its po...

Nigeria Loses As Russia-Ukraine War Escalates Global Oil Prices

28Feb

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News, Nigeria, Petroleum

Nigeria Loses As Russia-Ukraine War Escalates Global Oil Prices

The escalating war between Russia and Ukraine has sent oil prices to new highs, with the Bonny Light breaking the $100 per barrel resistance level on February 24 for the first time since 2014. As the United States and European allies of Ukraine threaten to tighten sanctions on Russia, oil traders are concerned about the prospect of supply in a market where demand is rising rapidly, as factories and broader economies open up to recover from the doldrums of COVID-19 restrictions. Like a tale of two halves, oil importers such as South Africa and Kenya are groaning as rising crude oil price sends the price of petrol, and by extension, other consumer good prices higher, escalating the current inflationary pressures in those countries. However, members of the Organisation for P...

ASUU Demands ₦1 Trillion From FG To Suspend Ongoing Strike

28Feb

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Education, News, Nigeria, Youths

ASUU Demands ₦1 Trillion From FG To Suspend Ongoing Strike

Ongoing industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is seen by some as one of the reasons people patronize private universities, as lecturers there are not members of the union and would not go on strike. Meanwhile, another set of people not participating in the strike are lecturers in some state universities and those in universities not yet unionised. On their part, newly-established public universities are given observer status for some years before being admitted into ASUU. Nigeria has 49 federal universities, 54 owned by state governments and 109 private ones. Federal universities are currently on strike while some state-owned are not part of the strike, the reason being that some major demands by ASUU are peculiar only to feder...

Imo By-Election: 100 INEC Staff Abducted, Forced To Thumbprint – REC

27Feb

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Elections, News, Nigeria, Violence

Imo By-Election: 100 INEC Staff Abducted, Forced To Thumbprint – REC

Hundreds of ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Saturday’s Imo by-election for Ngor Okpala State Constituency have been abducted and taken to an unknown destination where they were forced to thumbprint on the ballot papers. The INEC Imo state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Professor Chukwuemeka Ezeonu, disclosed this Sunday while briefing newsmen on the happenings around the bye-election. The REC warned that those ballot papers from the abducted INEC ad-hoc staff, would not be accepted by the NEC. He said: “We have received the report of violence of election and disruption of polls on some polling units and attacks on our personnel.” He said that so far no casualty has been reported. See Also: INEC To Conduct Outstandi...