The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has drawn attention to Nigeria’s escalating poverty crisis, attributing it to a severe leadership deficit in the country. Obi highlighted this when he spoke at the installation ceremony of Rotary International’s new District Governor in Awka, Anambra State. “This leadership failure has resulted in Nigeria having the
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The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, says protesters who wish to use Eagles Square must apply properly and pay security costs for their scheduled #EndBadGovernance protest on August 1. The Minister stated this at a Town Hall Meeting held in the Conference Room of the Federal Capital Development Authority in Abuja on Saturday. Recall that a
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has terminated the involvement of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc in transactions between distribution companies and power producers concerning the purchase of electricity. In its new order on the Transition of Bilateral Trading in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry released on Friday, NERC stated that distribution companies (Discos) can
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To empower young women in the Obokun State Constituency, the Adewumi Adeyemi Foundation, in collaboration with the Enterprise Development Centre of Pan-Atlantic University, has commenced the first phase of an entrepreneurship training programme. The initiative, which began this week, according to the Foundation, aims to equip participants with essential entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, fostering economic
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A United States team spearheaded by Caeleb Dressel stormed to the men’s 4x100m Olympic relay gold medal ahead of Australia on Saturday. The quartet of Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Dressel came home in 3min 09.28sec with Australia taking silver in 3:10.35 and Italy bronze in 3:10.70. But they had their work cut
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The Minister of State for Environment, Ishaq Salako, on Saturday, assured Nigerians that the economy is on its way to full recovery following the radical economic reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu in the past year. This came as the Special Adviser to the President on Tourism, Prince Ademola Adetokunbo begged Nigerians ‘not to allow
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Four graduates of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, have bagged N1,500,000 each in the 2024 British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation Agripreneur Programme. The winners, identified as Mustapha Ibrahim, Olajire Adekunle Sherif, Oluwadare Ogunmoye and Anuoluwapo Akinboye, emerged from the eight innovative project proposals presentations in various aspects of agriculture. According to a statement on
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