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Given the prevailing economic challenges and the soaring cost of living, how sustainable is the N70,000 minimum wage for the average Nigerian worker? Workers have been coping terribly. Many are living on shoestring budgets, flying by the seat of their pants. Life has become a daily strugglemarked by misery and uncertainty. Let me take you […]

The recent peace meeting between residents of Faskari local government area of Katsina State and some bandit leaders is drawing reactions from across the populace. Reports said wanted bandit kingpins Ado Aleru, Babaro and Kwashen-garwa attended the gathering, despite being on the federal government and Nigerian Army’s wanted lists. How the meeting was convened and […]

Troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) North East, Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), have intercepted a huge cache of logistics supplies concealed in a trailer in Yobe State intended for delivery to terrorists. A statement by the media information officer OPHK Lt-Col Sani Uba said the troops under Operation DESERT SANITY IV on Tuesday while […]

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has cautioned the President Bola Tinubu administration not to celebrate the outcome or its new tax reforms, adding that the purchasing power of Nigerians is still nothing to write home about. He said the value of the N14 trillion allegedly collected […]

Senator Sadiq Suleiman Umar, Chairman of the Nigerian Senate Committees on Trade and Investment, and Rules and Business, has called on African youth to take the lead in unlocking the continent’s economic potential through leadership, trade, and strategic collaboration under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Speaking at the 2025 Africa and the Middle […]

The Coalition of Nigerian Youth Leaders (CONYL) has declared support for Seyi Tinubu’s in the 2027 governorship race in Lagos State, describing his aspiration as a “divine call to leadership.” In a statement signed by its president-general, Comrade Goodluck Ibem, the umbrella body of youth groups across the six geopolitical zones said Seyi Tinubu possessed […]

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and other stakeholders have convened to review the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) life events and draft technical standards for Nigerian Data Exchange. This was the highpoint of a two-day public review with the theme; “Advancing Nigeria’s Digital Public Infrastructure through Standards, Data Exchange, and […]

New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) leader and former presidential candidate, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has outlined conditions under which he would consider rejoining the All Progressives Congress (APC), emphasising that any political alliance must respect his influential Kwankwasiyya Movement. At a stakeholders’ meeting in Kano, the former Kano State governor said while he remained open to […]

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has strongly advised post-graduate foreign scholarship beneficiaries of the programme not to abuse the opportunity to further their studies. He gave the admonition at the orientation programme for the third batch of the foreign scholarship beneficiaries, which make up the over 140 deployed for […]