Ndidi WILFRED Ndidi has turned down a chance to become Aston Villa’s most expensive player in history after revealing he is happy at Leicester City amid reports linking him with a £50m switch to Villa Park in the summer, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Steven Gerrard’s side are reportedly willing to pay £50m for …
Read More »Bank loans to private sector rise by N5.1tn, hit N36.7tn – CBN report
CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele Between January and December 2021, the Nigerian banking sector’s credit to the private sector rose by N5.1tn or 16.67 per cent, according to data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria. This was contained in the Money and Credit statistics released by the regulator. The report …
Read More »ASUU strike unnecessary, says Fed Govt
• Ngige: Union has been paid N100b Education Minister Adamu Adamu yesterday expressed shock over the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to go on strike. He said the contentious issues between the Federal Government were being sorted out. Adamu said this while responding to …
Read More »House Of Reps To Probe Aregbesola Over N165 Billion Prison Funds
By Akinwale Kasali 24 hours, after calling out All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader and Presidential Aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and former Interim APC National Chairman, Bisi Akande, over the re-election ambition of Governor Gboyega Oyetola, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, is swimming in troubled waters. Speaker of the …
Read More »BREAKING: Tinubu’s close ally, Prof. Tunde Samuel, is dead
Prof. Tunde Samuel, a close ally and top political strategist of the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is dead. Sameul, a chieftain of the APC in Lagos State is also a prominent member of the influential Governor Advisory Council (GAC), the elite group …
Read More »Reps to query MRS, Oando, others for importing methanol-lazed petrol
Hon. Abdullahi Mahmud Gaya, the chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), has assured Nigerians that his committee will ‘handle’ companies that imported methanol-blended Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) into the country. The chairman was responding to a question during the committee’s engagement with management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company …
Read More »Kyari to Nigerians: Fuel queues will disappear in few days
Mele Kyari, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPC), has said that fuel queues will normalize in a few days. Kyari gave the assurance when he addressed the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), on Wednesday on the situation which was caused by methanol-blended Premium …
Read More »Not sure if FG can meet ASUU’s demands in one month – Minister
Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education Adamu Adamu, minister of Education, has said that he is not sure if federal government could meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The union had declared a 30-day warning strike on Monday over the federal government’s failure to honour the …
Read More »We’ll Handle Erring PMS Suppliers, House C’ttee Tells Nigerians
…As NNPC CEO Assures Fuel Queues Will Vanish in Few Days The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Hon. Abdullahi Mahmud Gaya has assured Nigerians that his Committee will handle companies who imported methanol-blended Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) into the country. The Chairman was responding to a question …
Read More »Nigerian Leadership: How did we get here and whom should we have next, By Oluwole Daramola And Abubakar Shuaibu
Given the phenomenal promise and the prospects of Nigeria as an anticipated leading light of the black and African world back in the day, many are at a loss as to how low the nation has sunk presently. On the other hand, there is also the glaring challenge of who …
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