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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 Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu in Umuahia, […]

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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 instalments, adding that the outstanding arrears would be paid 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, the firms have failed to remit billions of naira in […]

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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 the debtors of the failed bank. It also includes amounts […]

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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 five man federal government delegation to the funeral of Pope […]

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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 now crucial to develop a “Sui generis” seed protection system […]

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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 community workers, had raised an alarm on the alleged diversion […]

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Business

Tribunal Backs FCCPC’s $220mn Ruling Against Meta, WhatsApp

By Oluwakemi Kindness The Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal has upheld a $220m fine imposed on Meta Platforms Incorporated, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp LLC, by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC). The Tribunal affirmed the Commission’s authority, saying it complied with prevailing laws, discharged its mandate, and exercised its powers within the confines of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). It ruled that the multiple actions by WhatsApp and Meta, for which the Commission made findings […]

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Nigeria Needs Urgent Electoral Overhaul—NILDS DG Sulaiman

By Julian Adetinuyo The Director-General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Professor Abubakar Sulaiman, has called for urgent reforms to strengthen Nigeria’s democratic institutions and restore trust in its electoral system. Speaking at a high-level national dialogue on electoral reforms in Abuja, Professor Sulaiman said Nigeria’s democracy cannot thrive without a credible, transparent, and inclusive electoral process. “Electoral reform is not an option—it’s a necessity,” he declared. “We must build institutions that can withstand pressure, resist […]

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