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Nigeria is the leading nation in the world with the highest number of extremely poor people, report of Brookings Institution has shown. Before now, India used to hold the position with a population of 1.324 billion people as against Nigeria’s 200 million. According to the report, the number of Nigerians in extreme poverty increases by six people every minute. “According to our projections, Nigeria has already overtaken India as the country with the largest number of extreme poor in early 2018, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo could soon take over the number 2 spot,” it read. “At the end…

Two major telecom operators in the country, 9Mobile and Barti Airtel, Monday publicly opposed the proposed transfer of operating licence and resources, including 800MHz spectrum, from Visafone Communication limited to MTN Nigeria. The duo raised the objection at a public hearing organized by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, at its headquarters in Abuja. Responding to the proposal, Mr. Chidozie Arinze, the Head of Regulatory Affairs, 9Mobile, said spectrum remained a scarce national resource available in limited quantity and, as such could not be leased to only MTN as an operator to the detriment of other operators that do not have…

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has asked the Federal Government to review Nigeria’s security system to make it more effective. Rev. Samson Ayokunle, CAN President, who stated this Monday  in a statement in reaction to the recent killings that claimed at least 86 lives across the three local government areas of Plateau State, said the inability of security agencies to gather relevant intelligence before the attacks and deliver rescue operations during the attacks was questionable. Ayokunle also urged the Federal Government to do more than assuring citizens that perpetrators of the Plateau carnage will be brought to book; saying similar…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, Monday warned said it was wrong for judicial officers to discuss matters of public interest on the internet. Onnoghen who spoke at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Induction Course for newly appointed Judges and Kadis, at the National Judicial Institute, NJI, in Abuja,warned judges to desist from uploading pictures of their personal activities on social media platforms. The CJN, said, “As judicial officers, you must refrain from matters of public interest on the internet and social media. “You must also desist from uploading pictures of your personal activities online. In…

The one-year-old son of a Nigerian singer, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo popularly known as D’banj, who drowned Sunday has sent trauma to the family. Daniel Oyebanjo III who turned a year last May died Sunday after he drowned in a swimming pool at Dbanj’s residence in Ikoyi, Lagos state. Confirming the death of his son, the popular Nigerian Singer and entertainer posted a black photo on his Instagram account with the caption; “Trying Times. But my God is Always and Forever Faithful”. According to local media, D’banj was in Los Angeles to attend the 2018 BET Awards when the death of…

A fierce Nigerian critic and public affairs commentator has held President Muhammadu Buhari by the jugular for his inability to have stopped the slaughter of more than 200 persons in Barkin Ladi, Plateau State. In what looked like a planned and well-coordinated attacks, some suspected Fulani herdsmen said to be dressed in military uniforms were unabatedly doling massacre pills on innocent people in some communities in the area as the All Progressives Party, APC, National Convention that ended Sunday was going on at Eagles Square, Abuja. Femi Fani-Kayode, a one-time Minister of Aviation in his Twitter handle Sunday alerted “Fulani…

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, said All Progressives Congress, APC, in the past three years brought nothing but hunger, afflictions and daily bloodletting to the nation. The PDP saw this as a direct insult on the intelligence of Nigerians, advising the party, to perish the thought of deceiving Nigerians with its change of slogan from ‘CHANGE’ to ‘PROGRESS.’ In a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s national publicity secretary, the party asked, “How can the APC think that by changing its slogan, Nigerians will suddenly forget that in the last three years of its administration, the nation has not…

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Sunday, stated that oil and gas companies are enjoying an unfair advantage over the country’s failure to review the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Agreement, also known as Production Sharing Contracts, PSC, between Nigeria and the oil companies. NEITI, in a statement in Abuja, stated that in the early years after the signing of the agreement, PSCs were contributing less than one per cent of the country’s crude oil production, but from 2012 till date, companies under the PSCs, sensing the Federal Government’s reluctance to review the agreements, had stepped up…

Former Governor of Edo, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has been sworn-in as the new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the party’s on going National Convention. He emerged after an affirmative vote by the party’s delegates from the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory at the party’s National Convention which began on Saturday in Abuja. Oshiomhole became the sole chairmanship candidate before the convention after his opponents, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor and Chief Clement Ebri, both former governors of Edo and Cross River, respectively, withdrew from the race. His election, along with those of 18…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, National Convention held at Eagles Square, Abuja ended with some casualties during the election. The major surprise in the eight contested positions Saturday was the defeat of Senator Osita Izunaso in his re-election bid as the National Organising Secretary. Izunaso who spearheaded the Allied Forces in his Imo State to take the structure of the party from Governor Rochas Okorocha was defeated by Okorocha’s candidate, Barrister Emma Ebidero in an intriguing game in which the party’s governors reportedly came to the aide of their besieged colleague. Izunaso’s defeat followed what Vanguard gathered as the decision…