By Austin Isikhuemen Edo gubernatorial election is scheduled for September 2024. The umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), blew the whistle to mark the take-off of formal campaigning by the political parties and their candidates on 24th April 2024. Very soon we will begin to see the candidates on soapboxes throwing light on their […]
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Life after the expiry of gubernatorial immunity in Kogi By Austin Isikhuemen This morning, following the hide and seek game between Yahaya Bello and the EFCC that occupied all media platforms yesterday, I read this stanza of a poem titled ‘For It Is A Human Number’ by Jude Herrick. It had popped up when I […]
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Says intervention is timely and meaningful Renowned Political Economist and Commonwealth Institute Director, Prof. Anthony Kila, has hailed the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), for his statement about the ongoing attempt by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest and interrogate the former Governor of […]
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Distributors wanted all over Nigeria by portacabin manufacturing company based in Lagos Nigeria. Yes, we are looking for smart investors (and smart business-minded people) like you to become one of our portacabin distributors! This vacancy for distributors (and manufacturer’s representatives) is for people who have capital to invest and who are looking for an investment […]
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Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has cleared the $7 billion foreign exchange (FX) backlog inherited by Governor Yemi Cardoso. Gatekeepers News reports that this was disclosed In a statement on Wednesday, CBN’s Acting Director of Corporate Communications, Mrs. Hakama Sidi Ali, confirmed settlement of all valid FX backlog claims. This move fulfills a key pledge […]
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The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has condemned the abduction of a Lagos based journalist and editor of FirstNews, Segun Olatunji by suspected soldiers. Olatunji, a veteran journalist was whisked away last Friday by ten armed men from his Lagos home and till date has not been found, causing panic about his health condition and […]
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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday rejected the bail application by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako, rather, granted an accelerated hearing. Counsel for the IPOB leader, Alloy Ejimakor, had at the last adjourned date urged the court to admit Kanu to […]
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Former Commissioner of Information, Delta State and Managing Director, MacFolly Hospitality Ltd (Owners of The Lagos Marriott Hotel), Ikeja, Lagos, Chike Ogeah, has lost his wife. Olufunke Ogeah died yesterday after a prolonged illness at the age of 62. Mrs Ogeah was a 1985 graduate of the University of Lagos. She died in Lagos, Sunday […]
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…. Bank operations wobble …. Communication sector depletes …. Nigerians cry out Since Thursday, March 14, 2024, Nigerians have been going through untold hardship accessing their bank accounts as communication nosedived in the finance sector, causing problem in the flow of commercial activities and other engagements. Banks in Nigeria, it was gathered, have been affected […]
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Dear Compatriots, Last month, we buried Prof Ben Nwabueze, SAN CON, an outstanding scholar and iconic patriot. Please allow me to use this medium to personally and on behalf of his family and our group of Eminent National Leaders of Thought, known as the Patriots, led by our beloved Ben Nwabueze till his last days […]
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