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Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, Obi of Ogwashi Uku, Aniocha South local government area of Delta State in Nigeria and father of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, is dead. Okonjo died in the United States at 91. The late monarch, a professor of mathematics, ascended the throne of his ancestors in 2007. Following the completion of traditional rites, a new monarch has been crowned. Ngozi who announced this Friday in a Twitter said “The new monarch, Ifechukwude Chukuka Okonjo, is a financial management expert and CEO of Chevy Chase Consulting.”

“Full Moon tonight — “Friday the 13th”. Rare-ish. Occurring every one to two dozen years. Know what’s just as rare? A Full Moon on “Thursday the 12th”, but nobody makes movies about it,” Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist from New York City tweeted on Friday. So, Friday, September 13, 2019 marks full moon. The full moon has been associated with strange or insane behavior, including suicide, sleepwalking and violence. Straightnews delves into the ways the full moon supposedly affects mankind. Lily Feinn writes in Bustle “Here are the many ways that the full moon supposedly affects the human body. The…

By Akanimo Sampson Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has taken on some unnamed governors on the platform of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), alleging that most of them wear the face of Janus. Janus is a two-faced god in the mythology of ancient Rome. He did not also spay All Progressives Congress (APC) political potentates from the state for not attracting federal projects to Rivers in spite of their status as a big oil and gas state. By implications, Wike is unequivocally claiming that some PDP governors play the PDP card in the day and largely APC…

By Akanimo Sampson The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has unfolded what it considers as the best response to the disturbing challenges posed by climate change. According to the UN agency in its Commodities and Development Report 2019, economic and export diversification is the best response. The diversification could be horizontal, which entails venturing into new goods and sectors to reduce dependence on a narrow range of commodities, or vertical, which involves moving the value chain of a commodity up to increase its worth, says the report entitled “Commodity Dependence, Climate Change and the Paris Agreement”. According…

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, said Thursday that President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC were ready to meet the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate at the February 23 Presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at the Supreme Court. Briefing State House Correspondents when he led the APC women to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Comrade Oshiomhole accused the opposition PDP of blackmailing every institution in the country in its bid to take over power.  The APC chairman also jokingly said that if the PDP and its Presidential…

The Federal Government has approved $5.3 billion for the Ibadan-Kano standard gauge rail project. The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, stated this in a statement issued in Abuja Thursday by his media aide, Mr Israel Ibeleme, after the 3rd Maritime Stakeholders Interactive Forum held in Lagos. “Thursday, we got approval to complete the $5.3 billion Ibadan to Kano rail project and we have also applied for funding to commence coastal rail for the Port-Harcourt to Warri segment,” he said. Amaechi explained that Gbemisola Saraki, the Minister of State for Transportation, had been assigned the responsibilities of overseeing all the…

No fewer than 22,000 persons currently were missing in the North East, due to a decade of conflict in the zone, the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, said Thursday. The ICRC in a statement signed by the President, Peter Maurer, who was on a five-day visit to Nigeria, said the figure remains the highest number of missing persons registered with the ICRC in any country. An insurgency in Nigeria’s North-East, led by Boko Haram, a Jihadist group which seeks to establish an Islamic state in the country, has caused tens of thousands of deaths in the region and…

By Akanimo Sampson The battle for the soul of the Nigerian Presidency between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not likely to end so soon in order to help calm the turbulent waters of the dangerously polarised country. Analysts fear that the lingering political dispute between President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC and former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, all prominent Fulani leaders, could have a negative impact on the economy of the country. At the moment, the unemployment rate in the country appears to be on the…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has asked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate in the last elections, Atiku Abubakar, to apologise to Nigerians for willfully distracting the Buhari administration with a “frivolous election petition,” instead of appealing the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. On Wednesday, the presidential election petition tribunal gave its verdict, dismissing the petition filed by the PDP and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, saying the petitioners failed to prove their petition beyond reasonable doubt. In a statement by his spokesperson, Segun Adeyemi, Thursday, Mohammed said while the PDP and its candidate…

President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday that his administration has no intention of inflicting more suffering on Nigerians. This is even as the leadership of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, told the President that the enthusiasm of workers on the signing into law of a new minimum wage was becoming a nightmare, following the delay in the implementation of payment of the new approved salary. Buhari spoke on a day Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, and some financial experts faulted the proposed increase in Value Added Tax, VAT, to 7.2% from 5%, saying the increment would devalue the new minimum wage.…