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Nigeria’s Democracy Must Reflect All Voices — Speaker Abbas

By Oluwakemi Kindness The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, says Nigeria’s democracy must be measured by how much the critical stakeholders in the nation are involved in the processes. He stated this while addressing a group of social media influencers, most of whom were youth, at the National Assembly on Monday, highlighting the importance of the teeming youth population and their voice on the Internet to democracy. […]

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Education

NILDS Records Sharp Rise in Postgraduate Enrollment

By: Julian Adetinuyo The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS, has recorded a sharp rise in postgraduate enrollment, with two hundred and forty-four students matriculated for the twenty twenty-four to twenty twenty-five academic session — a nearly ninety percent increase compared to the previous year. Speaking at the matriculation ceremony in Abuja, Director-General of NILDS, Professor Abubakar Sulaiman, said the surge in enrollment reflects the growing relevance […]

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2027: Monarchs Pledges To Deliver 70% of South-East for Tinubu’s Re-Election Bid

By Oluwakemi Kindness Traditional rulers across Igbo land in the South east of the country have pledged to deliver at least, 70 percent of the region's vote to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 general elections. The monarchs under the aegis of Ndi Igbo Progressive Traditional Rulers Council, stated this when their chairman, His Royal Majesty, Eze Nnamdi Oforegbu from Abia State paid a courtesy visit to the Deputy […]

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Economy

Federal Government Set To Pay Arrears Of Wage Award

By Oluwakemi Kindness The Federal Government on Monday says it is set to pay the outstanding five months N35,000 wage award arrears to federal government workers. The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) made this known in a statement issued in Abuja by the Director Press, Bawa Mokwa. The OAGF explaines that the Federal Government had earlier paid five months wage award to federal government employees in […]

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Economy

PenCom, NERC Crack Down on GENCOs, DISCOs Over Pension Arrears

By Oluwakemi Kindness The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has sought the intervention of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to compel electricity Generation Companies (GENCOs) and Distribution Companies (DISCOs) to remit outstanding pension contributions owed to their employees. PenCom’s Director General, Ms. Omolola Oloworaran, stated this when she led a delegation to seek NERC’s intervention in addressing the non-compliance by 16 electricity companies. According to a statement by the commission, […]

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Economy

Liquidation Dividend: NDIC pays ₦46.6bn To Depositors Defunct Heritage Bank

By Oluwakemi Kindness The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has declared the first tranche of liquidation dividends of ₦46.6bn from the proceeds of sales of the defunct Heritage bank's assets and recovery of debts owed to the defunct institution. Liquidation dividend represents amount paid by the Corporation to depositors of a closed bank, in excess of the maximum insured limit, from the proceeds of sales of assets and recovery from […]

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Draw Line Between Activism and Slander, APC Chieftain Warns VeryDarkMan

By Chinedu Echianu The South South Zonal Organizing Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Blessing Agbomhere Esq has warned social media influencer, Martins Vincent Otse popularly known as VeryDarkMan to immediately tender an unreserved apology to the President of the Senate and number three citizen of Nigeria, Senator Godswill Akpabio following what he described as Otse's unwarranted and slanderous verbal attack on the person of Akpabio for leading a […]

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Protect Farmers’ Rights: Experts Urge Nigeria to Exit UPOV Treaty

By Oluwakemi Kindness The Federal Government has been urged to withdraw from the International Union for the Protection of New Plant varieties (UPOV 1991). The call by a coalition of Ecological and Environmental Rights Activitists says the continuous membership is a threat to Nigeria's food system. They made the call in a statement at the weekend in commemoration of the 2025 World Seed Day day stressing that it is […]

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Education

Investigate Alleged Fraud in Students Loan Disbursement – CONUA

By Chinedu Echianu The Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) has called for an immediate investigation into alleged diversion of student loans by some Universities in collusion with certain Banks. CONUA is a Union of lecturers in tertiary institutions in thirty universities and inter University Centres across Nigeria, which broke away from the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU in 2022. Recall that the National Orientation Agency (NOA), through its […]

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