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The Chief Executive, ILEAD AFRICA, Yusuf Abiodun has urged Nigerians to get involved in monitoring and implementation of the budget process, to hold leaders accountable.  He said this during a Youth Budget Conversation, themed ‘Amplifying the voices of youth in political leadership and policy formation’, in collaborations with, BudgIT Foundation, Young Parliamentarians Forum of the National Assembly, and Federal Ministry …

·  Five cabinet members resign, cite personal reasons. . 27 defector-lawmakers defy court order, hold plenary ·  APC: We’ll fight illegality in Rivers State Blunt and quite unfazed by the political storm raging in his state, Governor Siminalayi Fubara signed the 2024 appropriation bill of N800 billion into law yesterday, less than 24 hours after he presented it before a four-member Rivers …

WASHINGTON — In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential contest will affect its future. They just disagree over who poses the threat. A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 62% of adults …

The Republic of Niger’s ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum, who has been held in detention since a July 26 coup, must be freed immediately, the court of the West African bloc, ECOWAS, ordered on Friday. The court called for his “immediate and unconditional release” and ordered that Bazoum be reinstated, according to the judge in the case heard in Nigeria’s capital, …

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the continuation of the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on terrorism charges. The case which started in 2015 had been put on hold at the Federal High Court in Abuja after the Court of Appeal dismissed the charges in a judgement delivered in October 2022. The Court of …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Suspected cultists have beheaded a 42-year-old man, sending fears and anxiety across the Uwelu community of Benin amid police intensified clampdown on criminal gangs operating in Edo State. The victim’s head and feet were carted away by his assailants. Police recovered the body of the victim along Powerline Street, Uwelu area, Benin City, about 7:30pm on December …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, swore in the newly appointed Special Advisers, charging them on the need to proactively address misinformation and misrepresentation by the opposition as the 2024 governorship election nears. Obaseki, who said the government has in the last seven years undertaken bold and transformative programmes and projects across various sectors of the State to …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria (RRIN), Dr. Lelia Dongo has said that the institute has made tremendous achievements which have grown the sector in the past five decades. The achievements according to her include development of improved high yielding and disease resistant rubber clones, increased rubber production in Nigeria with 482 …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON John Odigie-Oyegun Public Service Academy (JOOPSA), has hosted an Open House for journalists and social media influencers, offering firsthand insights into its organizational dynamics and milestones under the leadership of its Pioneer Director General, (DG) Precious Imuwahen Ajoonu. The DG of the academy noted that contrary to insinuations that civil servants are not productive, they constituted the …

• Population grows by 30 per cent in 10 years• Economy expands by less than three per cent• Number of severely financially distressed adults rise to 74%  If Nigeria’s economy tumbles off this current cliff the next moment, it would not happen for want of sufficient early warning signs but, perhaps, for lack of the required willpower to make necessary …