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• Buhari seeks Senate’s approval for N402b promissory notes• FG, states more aggressive in local debt mobilisation• States’ external debt exposure falls by 78.3 billion in six months• Local debt rises by over 18 per cent in the same period• Govt silent on CBN overdrafts, undocumented sub-national debts The Federal Government’s total debts and contingent liabilities have hit N60.9 trillion even …

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday released the final list of candidates for national elections, namely presidential, senatorial and federal constituencies, in line with the 2023 elections timetable earlier released in the year. INEC, which confirmed this in a statement by the National Commissioner in Charge of Voters’ Education, Festus Okoye, also posted the list on its website. The …

He must not die in detention, Ohanaeze warns  Owerri—lead Counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Monday, said that the detained leader of IPoB, Nnamdi Kanu’s health condition has continued to deteriorate in the detention facility of the Directorate of State Services, DSS.  Ejiofor stated that in Owerri, after they visited Kanu at the DSS detention centre, …

Some civil society groups, on Tuesday, described as “insensitive” a post made by the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, on her Facebook page celebrating her daughter-in-law’s graduation from a United Kingdom university. They also urged Mrs Buhari to apologise to millions of Nigerian students stuck at home as the seven-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities lingers. Mrs Buhari …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), yesterday, dropped a hint that lecturers cannot be compelled to return to classes in the event of an order by the National Industrial Court of Arbitration. ASUU National President, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known during a parley with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. Osodeke, accompanied by ASUU executives, likened the …

The National Association of Nigerian Students has said its members will block the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja and Kaduna-Abuja Expressway on Wednesday (today) as part of its protest against the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Reps to meet Buhari, Ngige, Adamu absent at parley The PUNCH had reported that students, on Monday, blocked the access …

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for collaborative partnerships that would build a framework of ideas to transform educational systems globally. He spoke at a time the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, had been on strike for about eight months, following the failure of the Federal Government to meet the demands of its members. Buhari spoke on Monday while delivering …

Presidential bid of Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi and running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has received a boost with the endorsement of professionals under the aegis of Professionals for Obi-Datti Presidency (PODP). The group, in a statement,  yesterday, said the Obi-Datti ticket represents competence, integrity, prudence, accountability, transparency and inclusiveness, all of which, the country urgently needed if it must be …

Food prices in Nigeria are at their highest levels ever as the country faces its worst food inflation in 17 years, traders, consumers and producers across sectors of the food supply chains have told PREMIUM TIMES. Nigeria’s inflation rate surged to 20.52 per cent in August, the highest since September 2005. The figure rose from 19.64 per cent recorded in July, …

Nigerians are fed up with the inefficiencies and failures of government officials and other representatives and will reject the same if nothing is done to change the narrative in the 2023 general elections, Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has warned. Obaseki, therefore called on political leaders across the country to step up and assuage the pains of Nigerians on …