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Court Bars Labour Unions From Planned Wednesday Strike

A federal high court in Abuja has restrained the labour unions from embarking on their planned nationwide strike to protest the government's abrupt removal of petrol subsidy. The order...

Senegal: Govt Cuts Off Mobile Internet Access Amid Deadly Riots

Senegal's government has cut access to mobile internet services in certain areas because of deadly rioting in which "hateful and subversive" messages have been posted online, it said in a statement on...

Imo May Get First Female Deputy Governor As Hope Uzodinma Picks New Running Mate

In a deft political move, Gov Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has ditched his current deputy governor Placid Njoku to pick a female lawyer from Mbaitoli LGA as his...

46 Persons Reportedly Killed In Benue Community In Renewed Attacks

No fewer than 46 people were killed in Umogidi village of Entekpa-Adoka district, Otukpo of Benue state when armed bandits stormed the village shooting sporadically. The son of the...

“Nigeria’s Hollow Democracy” – By Chimamanda Adichie

Dear President BIDEN, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians...

Visiting Macron Fails To Persuade Xi Jinping To Drop Support For Russia In War...

Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday played host to his visiting Frech counterpart Emmanuel Macron but didn’t commit to any serious changes to China’s position on Russia’s conflict with Ukraine after talks Thursday...

Human Trafficking; Obasanjo Intervenes On Behalf of Ekweremadu In The UK

Nigeria’s ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has intervened in the Modern Day Slavery legal ordeal faced by Nigeria’s former deputy senate President Ike Ekwerenmadu in a UK court. Ekweremadu along with...

Nigerian Govt Secures $800 million World Bank Loan For Post-Oil-Subsidy Palliatives

The federal government of Nigeria has secured an $800 million loan from World Bank it says will be used to offset hardships to the most vulnerable in the country when it finally...

Peter Obi Under Pressure From Agents of Govt To Abandon Election Petition – Labour...

The Labour Party says its presidential candidate, Peter Obi is under pressure from agents of the Nigerian government and the ruling party to abandon his election petition in the court and flee...

Peter Obi Denies A Leaked Tape Of Controversial Conversation With Bishop Oyedepo

Labour Party presidential candidate in the February election, Peter Obi has dismissed a circulating audio recording of an alleged conversation between himself and fiery cleric Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church.