DEBT BURDEN: EVERY NIGERIAN NOW OWES N624,527 Nigeria’s public debt has surged significantly, with the amount owed by each citizen increasing by 63%, according to a review of the data released by the Debt Management Office. When President Bola Tinubu took office in June 2023, the country’s debt stood at N87.3 trillion. However, by September 2024, this figure had ballooned …

RIVERS CRISIS: MISSING DOCUMENTS STALL PRO-FUBARA LAWMAKERS SUIT AGAINST PRO-WIKE LAWMAKERS A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Obile, has adjourned the case challenging the legitimacy of Martin Amaewhule as Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, along with 26 others following their defection. The case was delayed due to the alleged mysterious disappearance …

FG FAILS DIRECT ALLOCATION TO LGS, RELEASES JANUARY MONEY THROUGH STATES The federal government through the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has released N860.252 billion to state governments for January, with the local governments expected to get N361.754 billion of the allocated sum The councils will not receive their allocations directly due to their inability to meet the deadline for …

MAMBILLA POWER PLANT: EX-MINISTER ACCUSES FORMER PRESIDENT OBASANJO OF SPREADING FALSEHOODS A former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of deliberately spreading falsehoods to obscure his own record regarding the Mambilla power project. Agunloye, who was accused of a six-billion-dollar Mambilla Hydroelectric plant fraud, had earlier sought the intervention of the Minister of …

PRESIDENT TINUBU MAKES 45 FRESH APPOINTMENTS President Bola Tinubu has approved the fresh appointments of board persons and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of various government establishments.The President, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, appointed board chairpersons for 42 federal organizations and a secretary to the board of the Civil Defence, Immigration, and Prisons …

THERE’S NO VANDALISATION OF ELECTRICITY INSTALLATIONS IN ENUGU COMMUNITY – CHIEF ENEOLI A former President General of Udi Town Union, Chief Emmanuel Eneoli, has said that there was no truth in the allegation made by one Flavour Eze and Benjamin Onyia about vandalisation of electricity installations at Umuoka Village in Udi town, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. Reacting …

HOPE FOR REVITALIZATION OF PREMIER CASHEW INDUSTRY OGHE RISES ASENUGU, FUNGUTAI ENGINEERING, NATIONAL CASHEW ASSOCIATION SIGN MoU TO BOOST AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIALISATION The Enugu State Government and Fungtai Engineering Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for the production of cash crops on 7,221 hectares of agricultural land at Ugwujoro, Nimbo, in Uzo-Uwani LGA, in line with Governor Peter Mbah’s …

TRUMP ORDERS RELEASE OF LONG-SECRET FINAL FILES ON JFK, RFK, MLK ASSASSINATIONS President Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification and release of long-secret files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, 78, announced the actions in the Oval Office — after decades of speculation and …

ENUGU GOVT JUSTIFIES INCREASE IN TAXES, CITES NEED FOR IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE, ECONOMIC GROWTH The Enugu State Government has justified the recent increase in taxes, citing the need to improve infrastructure and boost economic growth. The Deputy Governor, Ifeanyi Ossai, provided the explanation on Thursday during the Annual General Meeting of the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture, held …

NO NORTHERN STATE HAS 50% QUALIFIED TEACHERS – BABANGIDA ALIYU Former Governor of Niger State, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said that no state in North Nigeria has 50 per cent qualified teachers. Aliyu stated this at the 22nd Daily Trust Dialogue themed “Food Security: Availability or Affordability” and held at NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, on Thursday. The former governor …

LABOUR CRIES FOUL AS POWER MINISTER PLANS TO MIGRATE BAND B ELECTRICITY USERS TO BAND A The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has described the service-based tariff, which assigns electricity users to different bands according to the service delivered by distribution companies, as the highest form of fraud. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, during a …

Reresenting Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu state and Barr Olangwa Ezekwu Special Advisor to Enugu state Governor on Diaspora Matters during the Zonal Sensitisation and Advocacy Programme on Promotion of Diaspora Investment in Enugu state. A statement issued by the Director, Media and Public Relations and Protocol Unit NiDCOM, Abuja, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, quoted Dabiri-Erewa to have also pointed out NiDCOM’s …

LOTS OF NIGERIANS WILL BE CAUGHT IN THE WEB. OF TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BAN – AKANDE A former presidential media aide, Laolu Akande, has faulted President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship. The former lecturer of African history at New York College expressed this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday. The move was part of Trump’s …

FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP EXECUTIVE ORDER A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday heard a request made by four Democratic-led states to issue a temporary restraining order against the executive order signed by Trump that purports to limit …

FORMER MILITARY PRESIDENT, IBRAHIM BABANGIDA, WRITES MEMOIR 32 YEARS OUT OF OFFICE Former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) is set to launch his long-awaited autobiography. The memoir titled: ‘A Journey In Service’, will be released on February 20, 2025, at the event billed for the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja. The development is coming 32 years …