Borno State Government has targeted more than 1.8 million vulnerable people across the state with a new palliative initiative to cushion the impact of the removal of fuel subsidies. Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, who flagged off the distribution exercise at Muna IDP camp in Jere Local Government Area, said the state has keyed into the presidential food emergency declaration. He said under the initiative, each eligible beneficiary will receive 0N5,00 cash, a bag...

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi lost his phone on Tuesday while sitting at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. Obi, who was dressed in his usual black attire sat close to his running mate, Ahmed Baba Datti throughout the court’s proceedings, but his phone was allegedly stolen. Obi discovered that his mobile phone was missing after court...

President Bola Tinubu has issued a directive to federal universities across the country to put an end to the increment in school fees. “President Tinubu has directed the authorities in all federal institutions of higher learning to avoid an arbitrary increase in sundry fees payable and where possible defer further increase so that parents and students don’t face too many difficulties,” Dele Alake, the President’s special adviser on special duties, communications and strategy, stated in...

President should’ve set the tone for reconciliation – Prof. Adibe Tinubu has addressed key things holding Nigeria down – Ogbe President Bola Tinubu in a nationwide broadcast on Monday said among other things that his government has saved over N1trn from subsidy removal policy in two months. He also talked about monitoring effects of exchange rate, inflation on gasoline prices. The President said that his government is set to spend N75bn between the months of...

Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, former Minister of Foreign Affairs has bertaed South Africa for insinuating that the coup in Niger happened because of the illegitimacy of President Bola Tinubu’s government. The former Minister in an interview on Monday said that the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) which Tinubu chairs is supposed to be the first to react to the coup in Niger, rather the African Union (AU) was the first to react in a...

In a rather dramatic turn of events, Chief Olisa Metu, the former National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, and Hon. Harry Oranezi, a former member of the House of Representatives, who were longtime allies, had fallen out. Preliminary investigations reveal that the two former leaders of the PDP might have contracted the nemesis to their relationship during the just concluded 2023 General Election in which Harry had sought Metu’s assistance to return to the House...