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EVERY NIGERIAN NOW OWES N620,000 – DEBT PER CAPITA REPORT A dats review for the second quarter debt portfolio of the country released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that the debt owed by every Nigerian on the average stood at N619,501. According to the data published by the Debt Management Office, Nigeria’s public debt stood at …

UNLIKE YOU, I’M NOT A BIGOT, WICKEDNESS IS EXTRAORDINARY FOR T-PAIN, ATIKU REPLIES TINUBU Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies and approach to governance is killing Nigerians, and this should be his focus rather than attacking the opposition which is not in the saddle.Naija News reports that Atiku said this in a statement on …

TINUBU’S EX-MINISTER KICKS AGAINST REMOVAL,, SAYS HE’S NOT GUILTY The sacked Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Abdullahi Gwarzo, has kicked against his removal from President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet. Gwarzo claimed that he was not guilty of poor performance. In a cabinet reshuffle on October 23, 2024, Tinubu dismissed Gwarzo alongside four other ministers. The other dismissed ministers …

PRIVATE MEDICAL PRACTIONERS LAMENT ECONOMIC HARDSHIP The Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, ANPMP, says private hospitals in Nigeria are folding up due to the ravaging economic downturn. It also revealed that the nation’s economic situation has forced several Nigerians into self medication, resulting in organ failure and subsequently, death. ANPMP’s Chairman, Dr Odia Festus Ihongbe in an exclusive interview …

.RENO OMOKRI DEFENDS PETER OBI AGAINST GOOGLE Controversial political activist, Reno Omokri has defended Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 election following claims that he lied about building a branch of Savannah Bank in Anambra. Omokri said Google’s answer on the issue was wrong. Recall that Omokri since throwing his support for Bola Tinubu after …

TRUMP TO KICK-START MASS DEPORTATION OF IMMIGRANTS, PARDON JANUARY 6 RIOTERS ON FIRST DAY AS US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s plans for his first day in the White House are quite ambitious, to say the least. After being asked if he’d be a dictator if re-elected, Trump responded that he wouldn’t be, “except for Day 1”. His agenda includes mass deportation …

HOW TWO JOSEPHSGAVE NIGERIA A CRISIS OF JUMPY JUDGES, BYCHIDI ANSELM ODINKALU The unraveling of the regime of General Yakubu Gowon shortly after the end of Nigeria’s civil war in the decade of the 1970s began as a tale of two Josephs. One was Joseph Dechi Gomwalk, Gowon’s in-law and governor of his home state. The other was Joseph Sarwuan …

ABC NWOSU REPLIES GOWON ON FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT ABURI ACCORD Former Minister of Health and eminent statesman, PROFESSOR A. B. C. NWOSU, in this interview responded to some of the issues raised by General Yakubu Gowon in his recent interview, on his roles in the Nigeria – Biafra War. He is of the view that there are critical issues that …

AGAIN, PRESIDENCY ATTACKS ATIKU FOR SUGGESTING WHAT HE WOULD’VE DONE DIFFERENTLY FROM TINUBU The presidency has released the statement below as its second response to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who last week suggested things he would have done differently from the current government had he been elected president. In his statement on 3 November, Atiku listed some of the things …

NEW MINIMUM WAGE: FRESH BATTLE LOOMS OVER ARREARS With the battle for a new minimum wage settled in most of the 36 states, workers are now shifting attention to the payment of the arrears of their remuneration. Many of the states commenced payment of the new wage last month while some have promised to do so at the end of …