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Covid – A petition urging the government not to introduce vaccine passports could be debated by MPs after it gained more than 200,000 signatures. The online petition says the passports could be “used to restrict the rights of people who have refused a Covid-19 vaccine”. On Tuesday, Boris Johnson announced a review of vaccine certificates, […]
Buhari – President Muhammadu Buhari has been giving two weeks deadline to investigate allegations that N106bn of public funds were missing from 149 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), as documented in the 2018 annual audited report by the Auditor-General of the Federation.” The two weeks deadline was issued by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project […]
Obaseki’s – The People Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum has urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to heed the advice of Godwin Obaseki, Edo state governor, on Nigeria’s monetary policies, rather than attacking him. The PDP governors tackled their APC counterparts under the Progressive Governors forum (PGF) for being “partisan” in their response to Obaseki’s […]
Corruption – Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said that Nigeria’s current poor corruption rating by Transparency International is as a result of inadequate data. Addressing journalists on Wednesday on TI’s January 2021 report in which Nigeria scored 25 out of 100 points (the country’s worst rating since 2015), the Minister stated that they found few […]
Ibori – The Governor of Delta State Ifeanyi Okowa has revealed that his government has sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over James Ibori’s loot recovered by the federal government. Okowa stated this when he appeared on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, on Wednesday. A few weeks ago, the UK committed to […]
Nnamdi Kanu – The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has vowed that the group will defend all territories of the South-East and other states where Igbo people reside in Nigeria at all cost. He disclosed this during his live broadcast monitored by SaharaReporters on Monday night. According to Kanu, the Nigerian […]
Nigerian – The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers in Nigeria (AUFCDN) has claimed that the Nigerian government has agreed to pay the
Biden – In a series of tweets on Saturday, Trump described Joe Biden as a “fake President”. President Donald Trump on Saturday said a young military man working in Afghanistan told him that elections in the country were better than the 2020 US presidential poll. In a series of tweets on Saturday, Trump described Joe […]
Obaseki – The All Progressives Congress (APC) and one Williams Edobor a chieftain of the party, had filed a suit against Obaseki, accusing him of forging the first degree certificate which he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to enable him contest the election. At the last adjourned date, Obaseki through Ken Mozia, […]
Gov Sanwo-Olu clearly violated the Lagos procurement law by choosing PAYTECH as the sole revenue collector for all the state-owned tertiary institutions without a competitive bidding process Facts have emerged on how Gov Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State, jettisoned the state’s procurement law to select Payment Technology Limited (PAYTECH) to collect revenues such as school fees, […]