archiveMarch 13, 2018

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has slammed the Nigerian government for continuing the bad practice of discriminatory cut-off points into federal government-owned schools in Nigeria. In a statement yesterday by its spokesman, Uche Achi-Okpaga, the group alleged that under the guise of educationally disadvantaged areas, some states...

  Governor of Kano state, Umar Ganduje has described the calls for Restructuring of the country as a plot against the North. Speaking at the state government house on Monday, Ganduje made this comment after receiving a progress report from the Kano state committee on true federalism. The panel inaugurated...

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) to impose 100 per cent increase in excise duty rates on all alcoholic beverages and cigarettes to conform to global norm. The recommendation, contained in its 2018 Mission Report on Nigeria, is higher than the...