archiveAugust 16, 2018

  In spite of Nigerian government denial on multiple occasions, the United Nations (UN) has said that a splinter Boko Haram group that kidnapped the Dapchi girls in February was paid a “large ransom”. The girls were kidnapped from their school on February 18. One of the girls, Leah Sharibu,...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says poor understanding of current global economic dynamics and corruption were directly responsible for the accumulated N22 trillion national debt burden. The Party said this in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan on Wednesday in Abuja. Ologbondiyan said that...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) before the Federal High Court in Lagos asking the court to compel it to explain if the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun obtained any Exemption Certificate from the NYSC. The civil society organisation is specifically...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures inflation declined by 0.09 per cent to 11.14 per cent for the month of July, less than 11.23 per cent recorded in June 2018. This makes it 18th consecutive decline. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday said that the urban inflation...