December 29, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) not to give any money for food importation.

The Nigerian leader promised that administration will keep a keen eye on food inflation in 2021.

Buhari spoke at the fifth regular meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council held on Tuesday at the State House in Abuja.

‘The CBN must not give money to import food. Already about seven states are producing all the rice we need. We must eat what we produce’, he said.

Buhari wondered where the country would have found itself by now in view of the …

A Chinese court has convicted Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist who reported the early days of COVID-19.

On Monday, Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court sentenced her to four years in prison.

The charge was ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’.

Critics call it a punishment and warning to vocal nationals opposing government’s narrative of the pandemic.

Zhan, 37, becomes the first person to face trial for making revelations about coronavirus in China.

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In February, the former lawyer traveled to Wuhan, origin of the outbreak. She shared videos of crowded hospitals …

Nigeria’s House of Representatives, on Monday, rebutted the reports making around that the lower house had apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari over the uproar that followed his recent invitation to address the National Assembly over the state of insecurity in the country.

The Green Chambers debunked the report in a statement issued on Monday by the spokesperson of the House, Ben Kalu, saying that the Presidency never sought an apology from the House of Representatives for carrying out her constitutional responsibility to the Nigerian electorate.

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He stated that the …

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has expressed sadness over the passing away of the Chairman of the Pan Niger Delta Elders Forum (PANDEF), Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (retd).

Atiku in his tribute to Nkanga described him as a patriot, astute administrator and a pragmatic politician of no mean repute.

The former vice President in a statement issued on Monday by his Media Office and signed by Paul Ibe, said the death of Nkanga had left a vacuum that would be difficult to fill given his numerous contributions to the development of his native Akwa Ibom state, the …

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Rev. Fr. Mathew Hassan Kukah, over his comment on the station of the nation in his Christmas message.

Kukah had in a Christmas message titled: ‘A Nation in Search of Vindication,’ decried the nepotic nature of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration saying he is presiding over a country with prospects of a failed state.

He said the president had succeeded in sacrificing the dreams of Nigerians by pursuing a Northern hegemony. Kukah further said that there would have been a coup …