Nigeria’s central bank said it has adequate reserves to keep defending the naira as the slumping currency prompted a selloff of the country’s stocks, with the all-share gauge posting the world’s worst performance today. “There is a great need to defend the currency because we don’t want volatility,” Central Bank of Nigeria Deputy Governor Sarah Alade…
The Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, on Saturday said the unity of Nigeria remains sacrosanct as he pledges that the traditional institution will continue to work toward keeping the country united. The Emir spoke when President Goodluck Jonathan paid him homage in his palace in Kano. The President was in Kano on an official visit…
A former military head of state and presidential candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has blamed the problems confronting the country on the twin evils of bad leadership and insecurity, which he said could be addressed by a shift in the style of those in positions of authority.…
Hmmmm! Yorubaland has slowly but surely started to catch the religious intolerance bug. The APC leadership has previously been accused of being too Muslim, and so in trying to sideline them, the other side does exactly the same thing. Yorubas are tolerant people o. These leaders should stop trying to sow religious division. It is…
Governor Obi once again called on international organizations to come to the aid of Anambra State on tackling the menace of erosion in the State. He made this call yesterday at the Sacamori site , Onitsha, while conducting the House of Representatives Committee on Erosion led by the Chairman, Hon. Uche Ekwunife around some erosion…
The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has threatened to embark on strike if the ongoing divestment in the oil sector by some multinationals was not halted.Mr Igwe Atuche, the President of NUPENG, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Friday.Atuche deplored the ongoing divestment, saying…
Facing a crackdown by the military in cities, Islamist militants are targeting villages in the northeast, killing about 160 people this year alone in Borno State and signalling there’s no respite in their five-year-old insurgency.In one of the latest assaults, suspected members of the Boko Haram group killed 39 people on February 11 when they…
The Valentine’s Day celebration turned sour in Enugu on Thursday as no fewer than 26 persons were crushed to death at Oji-River junction in Enugu State. The victims, who were alongside others enjoying the mood of the day met their untimely death when a lorry-tipper lost brake and ran into them. DailyPost gathered that other…
Zamfara State police command has disclosed that cat-tle rustlers killed 20 people, including a po-lice corporal who lost his life during the gun battle in the two communities in the state. Saturday Sun gathered that suspected cattle rustlers attacked Tungar Bawo and Bingi communities in Maru Emirate Council in the state at night where 20…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has demanded the immediate reopening