Barely one year after his sack as the Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Aliyu Abdulhameed, has been arrested, Daily Trust reports. NIRSAL, a $500m non-bank financial institution, is a creation of the Central Bank of
An agrarian community in Abia State has cried out over the devastating blow that gully erosion is dealing to the area after every self-help effort has failed to stem the menace. The distress call rang out in the Iberenta community in Ikwuano Local
The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Security at Umunneochi, Abia State, has commended Governor Alex Otti for the positive steps he has taken to restore security and order in the state. According to the press release issued by the Chief Press Secretary
The Northern Consensus Movement (NCM), an amalgam of community based socio-cultural and economically inclined northern organisations, has withdrawn a 14-day ultimatum issued to Igbos resident in the North to evacuate. The NCM rescinded its order after a meeting convened at the instance of
As Forbes magazine released a list of 2,460 individual billionaires for its 2023 Billionaires list, three Nigerians made the list of individual billionaires globally Here are the three Nigerians on the list: 1. Aliko Dangote: Aliko Dangote is the founder and president/chief executive of
By Kenneth Uwadi. The euphoria that greeted the so called performance of the Imo State Government headed by Senator Hope Uzodinma particularly, on the construction and rehabilitation of roads has begun to wane. With the rainy season, most people have now woken up
Following the blackmail effort against the state, Abia State Government has described as false news making the rounds that it has directed Northerners, who live and conduct their businesses at the Lokpanta Cattle Market, around the Enugu-Umuahia-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway by Umunneochi, to leave
BY CHIBUEZE CHUKWUMA, ENUGU Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has condemned the recent one-sided, biased and unnatural developments surrounding the Federal Committee on Livestock, led by His Excellency Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje erstwhile governor of Kano State, now the National Chairman of
The much awaited South East Summit, a forum that created room for the political and economic leaders to seek a common ground on which they zone can tackle its economic and security challenges, has come and gone with all agreeing to work together
The atmosphere was electric as his Owerri residence witnessed the allure of the creme of the society in their numbers even as children were not left out in party. Chief Okeke in T-Shirt conversing and dancing with one of his guests during his
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State has been embroiled in a controversy surrounding
The Briton accused of inciting insurrection against President Bola Tinubu’s government, Drew Povey has urged
The unending wave of kidnappings in Nigeria has left the nation reeling in shock and
Mr. Maxwell Opera, a lawyer to the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe