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•Schools, electricity projects, road construction, Agric among key sectors of focus •State taps into Sukuk financing to accelerate growth Lagos State has set another record in accessing capital market funds to finance delivery of key infrastructure projects. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, presided over a ceremony where the State Government, issuing parties and trustees signed transaction instruments for first sets ...

By Christian Aburime Barrister Ifeatu Obiokoye has emerged as the Anambra State Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA. Barrister Obiokoye emerged after being unanimously elected to the position during the party’s 2023 State Congress. Governor of Anambra State and National Leader of APGA, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo observed the Congress for newly elected officers of the party which ...

…challenges them to stop killings in Benue and Plateau states The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has warned those it described as self-serving Northern politicians against blackmailing President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the filling of posts in the Tenth National Assembly and the Executive, saying that doing so would overheat the polity unnecessarily and spell doom for the country. OPC President, ...

By Christian Aburime Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has described the commissioning of the Second Niger Bridge as a fundamental change that will catalyze new waves of prosperity and economic growth in the South-East region. Governor Soludo made the disclosure at the commissioning and handover of the bridge, which was officially named as Muhammadu Buhari Second Niger Bridge. ...

By Raymond Ozoji,  Awka The Anambra State Government has declared that henceforth traditional rulers, presidents-general and other community leaders involved in revenue diversions would be arrested and the full weight of the law brought upon them as the state revenue courts begin operation. Government frowned upon a situation where touts and other revenue scavengers would be arrested and kept in ...

Amid encomium from eminent personalities, which included President Muhammadu Buhari and five other African heads of state, President of the pan-African Conglomerate, Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Aliko Dangote disclosed today that the newly commissioned 650,000pbd refinery would employ over 100,000 Nigerian youths as well as generate over $21 billion, therefore saving the country huge forex, that would have been used ...

•LASG has provided enabling environment for private sector growth, says Dangote  Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, said the stories of President Muhammadu Buhari; President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote are a testament that prosperity can be achieved when  leaders have shared vision for the people they are leading. Sanwo-Olu shared three ...

  The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, on Monday, rejected request to allow its day-to-day proceedings on petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election, to be televised. The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five member panel dismissed as lacking in merit, the application which was brought before it by the two major candidates that are ...

By Isidore Emeka Uzoatu. Permit this controversial entry. For you see, I’m one of those who ardently believe that all the democratic regimes we have had in this country suffered the same fate. Consecutively, they have been ruined by the daylight robbery passed off as rigging. I know many will disagree. After all, Nigerians have always advertised their peculiar penchant ...

As the scarcity of the Premium of Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, continued on Sunday, oil marketers have stated that the cost of the commodity would cross N800/litre once subsidy on PMS is removed. Industry operators had repeatedly stated that the high cost of subsidy on petrol was a burden on the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and was contributory ...