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EKPA SLAMS SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS: SAYS THEY LACK LEGITIMACY TO NEGOTIATE FOR KANU’S RELEASE The Simon Ekpa-led Biafran Republic Government in-Exile, BRGIE, has told South-East governors and other leaders in the region to stay clear of negotiating for Biafra declaration and the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu with Nigeria. Ekpa, who is known as the Prime Minister of BRGIE, disclosed …

FG ALLOCATED N732B ON VALUE EMPOWERMENT PROJECTS IN 2024 BUDGET – TRACKA Tracka, a subsidiary of BudgIT, has said that Nigeria allocated N732 billion on vague empowerment projects higher than the N646.5 billion allocated to health projects in the 2024 national budget. Ayomide Ladipo, the Head of Tracka disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Tracka maintained that Nigeria’s empowerment …

ENUGU LEADS SOUTH EAST IN EXTERNAL DEBT OF $494.72M, RECORDED ZERO FOREIGN INVESTMENT – DMO/NBS Nigeria’s five South-East states have accumulated a total of $1.89 billion external debt in four years, between 2020 and 2023; but recorded a paltry $261.6 million foreign investment during the period, The South-East region comprises Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states. Data from the …

WHAT STARMER’S ELECTION VICTORY MEANS FOR JAPA The United Kingdom has a new leader. After more than a decade of Conservative rule, Labour Party’s Keir Starmer has been named the new British prime minister following a landslide victory at the general elections on Friday. “The work for change begins immediately,” Starmer said in his first speech outside of 10 Downing …

HOW AGITATION FOR CREATION OF MORE STATES BREEDS RANCOUR IN SOUTH EAST The Senate, on Tuesday, July 3, 2024, passed for first reading bills seeking to create two additional States in the South-East, to increase states in the zone to seven. A bill seeking the creation of Etiti State in the South-East geo-political zone was also read for the first …

COURT ORDERS BUHARI’S MINISTER TO ACCOUNT FOR N729B ‘PAYMENTS TO MILLIONS OF POOR NIGERIANS’ A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered Ms Sadia Umar-Farouk, former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development to account for the payments of N729 billion to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months. The court also ordered the former minister to provide …

DAILY TRUST REPLIES FG ON     SAMOA AGREEMENT REPORT The Management of Media Trust Group, owners of Daily Trust, Trust TV and Trust Radio, has reacted to the threat of the Federal Government to sue the publication over a report on Samoa agreement. At a media briefing in Abuja, on Saturday, Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information, had described the report on …

EFCC KEEPS MUM ON BETA EDU SIX MONTHS AFTER SHE WAS SUSPENDED Several months after her suspension as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, nothing seems to have happened with the case involving Dr. Betta Edu over allegations of corruption, being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. As the anti-graft agency delays to absolve or indict the ex-minister, or …

LAGOS ISSUES 48-HOUR EVICTION NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS BLOCKING DRAINAGE The Lagos State Government has issued a 48-hour vacation notice to squatters and owners of illegal structures along the Gbagada-Bariga drainage channel. The announcement was made by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, via a post on social media platform, X on Sunday. Wahab explained that …

IGBO SHARE ANCESTRAL LINKS WITH YORUBA, BUT MANY DON’T KNOW – OONI OF IFE The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, a foremost traditional ruler in Yorubaland, is, no doubt, one of the most talked-about traditional rulers in Nigeria. Last month, he spoke exclusively with PREMIUM TIMES at the Eko Hotel in Lagos on the sidelines of a ceremony announcing the …