Economic Hardship: Stop Complaining, Go Back To Farming – APC Chieftain Tells Nigerians The Ebonyi State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Stanley Okoro-Emegha, has said that farming is the only panacea to avert the increasing hunger facing Nigerians. Emegha made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital on Wednesday. He called on Nigerians to go back to crop and livestock farming, explaining that if every family turns their backyard into vegetable garden and poultry farm it would reduce the increase in demand to meet household needs. He emphasized that the country’s present challenge…
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WATCH: Tears As Hungry Nigerian Children, Elderly Women, Others Dehumanised As They Fight For Food Amid Hardship Under Tinubu Government Amid the hunger ravaging Nigeria, residents of Madara ward in the Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger State, North Central Nigeria have been captured in a video struggling for food given as palliative by the government. It could not ascertain the exact date of the incident, but the video on Wednesday scores of residents of the ward including children, women, and elderly struggling to get a share in what look like two 50kg bags of rice and beans. Amid the…
Labour Asks To Make Plans For Indefinite Strike; Nationwide Mass Action Against Tinubu Regime The Revolutionary Socialist Movement (RSM) has put its weight behind the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to embark on a 2-day nationwide. The planned protest is against the rising cost of living, insecurity and other anti-people policies of President Bola Tinubu’s government. The RSM’s statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Kayode Salako, on Wednesday, said it was in support of the resolution reached by the NLC at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Friday, February 16, 2024. It said the…
JUST IN: Naira Further Depreciates Massively As EFCC Arrests Bureau De Change Operators Over Free Fall Of Currency Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arrested Bureau De Change operators in Enugu city, the Enugu State capital in southeast Nigeria. An X user and human rights activist, Chude Nnamdi, who made this known in a post on Wednesday evening said the anti-graft agency operatives stormed BDC spots on Owerri Road and Ogui Road in the state capital where they arrested the operators. “EFCC has just arrested the BDC Mallams along Owerri Road, Enugu, and the BDC…
BREAKING: Edo Primary: APC Sacks Uzodinma As Chairman, Names Replacement The All Progressive Congress (APC) has removed Imo State Governor Senator Hope Uzodinma from his position as chairman of the Edo State Governorship Primary Election Committee. This development comes in the wake of a crisis that is now rocking the state’s party after numerous individuals emerged as candidates in the just concluded primaries overseen by Uzodinma. According to an amended list provided by the party’s National Organizing Secretary, H.E Sulaiman Muhammad Argungu, OFR, the committee will now be chaired by the Governor of Cross Rivers state Bassey Otu, while Alh.…
JUST-IN: FG Unveils N115K Per Night Hotel In Abuja The federal government, on Wednesday, unveiled the first-ever hotel at the main building of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja (NAIA). Speaking at the unveiling of the hotel, called Sami Court, the minister of aviation and aerospace development, Festus Keyamo, said the management of the hotel has been a major stakeholder in the Nigeria’s aviation sector for long and the initiative was one of the contributions to the sector to improve passengers’ comfort while on transit. He also said: “This is not just a one-off event, it is part of the…
JUST IN: FG Open Job Centres To Tackle Unemployment The Nigerian government will open physical and virtual job centres across the country to tackle unemployment. Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation disclosed this at the second ministerial press briefing he hosted on Wednesday. Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, was the special guest at the event. The minister noted that the physical and virtual job centres to be opened across the country are part of the moves by President Bola Tinubu’s administration to “address the challenges of skilling and job creation”. A statement by…
BREAKING: NIS Gets New Comptroller General President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Kemi Nanna Nandap as the comptroller-general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), effective from March 1. According to a statement on Wednesday by Ajuri Ngelale, presidential spokesperson, Nandap takes over from Caroline Wura-Ola Adepoju, whose term in office will expire on February 29. More to follow…
JUST IN: Dozens Of Passengers Kidnapped By Terrorists Again Bandits, on Tuesday, abducted scores of passengers in two attacks along the Funtua-Gusau highway. According to Daily Trust, 26 passengers were abducted by the bandits in Unguwar Boka village, Faskari local government of Katsina state. The passengers who boarded two commercial vehicles, a Hummer Haice and Sharon, were headed for Gusau, Zamfara State capital, from the Funtua axis when the unfortunate incident occurred. The second operation, a source told Daily Trust, occurred at Gidan Kaji in Magazu village, Tsafe local government area of Zamfara. According to the source, residents could not…
BREAKING: Armed Police, Others Raid Ibadan Bureaux De Change Hub Over Free Fall Of Naira Some Nigerian security operatives on Wednesday went after the Bureau De Change operators in the Sabo area of Ibadan. Sabo in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital in Southwest Nigeria, is the hub of bureaux de change in the state. The operatives include officials of police and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission personnel. A video posted by Oyo Affairs on its X handle, on Wednesday, shows tens of armed security personnel and their convoy of vehicles slowly moving on the popular Sabo Road in Ibadan. “These…