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Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, has chided the President Bola Tinubu administration over its ‘huge’ borrowing, saying particularly that the administration’s continuous securitisation of Ways and Means borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is against the law and the CBN Act. Obi insists that the Tinubu administration is flouting …

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, says the South-east region must achieve peace and security before demanding the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Mr Kalu said this while speaking with journalists in his Bende country home on Sunday. He spoke on how best the region could approach its demand for …

They come with backpacks carrying a few spare changes of clothes and whatever money and phones they weren’t robbed of by criminals or cartels along the way, arriving at the United States-Mexico border exhausted from the stress of the journey north. Like the hundreds of thousands of people around them who have also trekked weeks to reach the US, they’re driven by …

The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has declared the prolonged detention of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, without trial as a flagrant violation of his fundamental rights. The court slammed a total of N100m fine against the Federal Government and the Economic Financial Crime Commission and barred them from rearresting or detaining …

Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has debunked claim that a firm allegedly owned by him received N438 million as “consultancy fees” from the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu. He made the clarification when featured on Channels Television’s Politics Today, which was monitored by TRIBUNE ONLINE on Monday. According to him, “I am not a signatory to …

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, yesterday urged the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) to join forces with the government for national progress. In a statement signed by the Director, Press and Public Relations of the ministry, Olajide Oshundun, the minister said it was time every sector of the country, including education, moved on …

…We’ve strengthened our security apparatus, evolved an innovative approach to tackling crime, criminality, says gov Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said that as part of efforts to sustain the gains recorded in tackling insecurity in the State, his government plans to make the installation of surveillance cameras compulsory for businesses and designated premises in the State. Obaseki made …

Fresh developments in the financial sector have shown that despite the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s move to ameliorate the cash crunch situation by suspending charges for cash withdrawals above regulatory limits, scarcity of currency notes in the banks nationwide has continued to hit harder, even after the Yuletide season. Findings by Financial Vanguard revealed that banks across the country …

The Federal Government is currently investigating the reported payment made into the private bank account of a civil servant on the order of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, for vulnerable Nigerians. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this on Sunday in a press statement released to the media in Abuja. Mrs …

A key member of the Senate, Sen. Karimi Sunday, who spoke exclusively with Nigerian Tribune, said the whole idea started when members of the 10th National Assembly protested to Tinubu over how the previous administration used state governments in distributing palliatives without inputs from senators and members of the House, “the real representatives of the people who are very close …