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Ndume expressed concern over recent government policies, such as the cybercrime levy, which faced public opposition. Senator Ali Ndume, the Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, has issued a scathing indictment of the Nigerian government, characterising it as a “kakistocracy”, a system where the most incompetent, corrupt, and unscrupulous individuals hold sway, and decrying the reign of ineptitude and malfeasance …

Reforms in the Edo State’s healthcare system in the last eight years have been targeted at strengthening and repositioning the State’s healthcare system to tap from the over $3bn expended on medical tourism by Nigerians, the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, said on Thursday. The governor stated this while delivering his keynote address at an event to mark five years …

Ahead of Edo State gubernatorial election slated for September 21, 2024, Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Thursday, inaugurated a 20-member transition committee to pilot the smooth transition of power and knowledge to the next administration. The Committee is chaired by a former Commissioner for Finance in the State, Mr. Joseph Eboigbe. Obaseki inaugurated the committee members, at the EXCO Chambers, …

United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will on July 17, 2024, host the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (“Americas Partnership”) foreign affairs track Ministerial meeting. Foreign ministers from the 12 Americas Partnership countries – the United States, Barbados, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay – will discuss ongoing collaboration to …

Abuja, Nigeria – A frontline Nigerian social critic and human rights activist, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta has called on the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede, to resign his appointment, for reneging on his promise to arrest and prosecute the former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello. Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, an international conflict resolution expert, who …

The Nigeria Labour Congress has said it would press for N250,000 minimum wage during a planned meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, on Thursday (today). The Head of Public Affairs of the NLC, Benson Upah said Labour would insist on its N250,000 proposal during the session with the President. “We are going to the table with …

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, remanded a former Minister of Power, Mr. Saleh Mamman, in Kuje prison. The erstwhile Minister was remanded after he pleaded not guilty to a 12-count money laundering charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him. Trial Justice James Omotosho said he should remain in custody till Friday, when …

The Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Zephaniah Jisalo, has expressed his support for the Supreme Court’s decision to grant autonomy to local governments in the country. The seven-justice panel of the apex court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, ruled that the 774 local government councils in the country should independently manage their own funds. The …

Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, has described the recent Samoa Agreement as “a threat to the sovereignty and values of Nigeria”. This was part of a 25-point communique, issued yesterday, after their meeting and signed by the President and Secretary, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji and Most Rev. Donatus A. Ogun, respectively The Bishops said: “The Agreement looks innocuous …

WASHINGTON— As he prepares to accept the Republican nomination for the third time, Donald Trump has promised new efforts to expand his coalition — and, in particular, to win over more of the nonwhite voters who largely rejected him during the 2020 election. But an AP analysis of two consecutive polls conducted in June by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that …