Dr Ngozi Okonjo-lweala is a global finance expert, an economist and international development professional with over 30 years of experience working in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. Currently, Dr Okonjo-lweala is Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Since its creation in 2000, Gavi has […]
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Nigeria’s two-term finance minister (2003-2006 and 2011-2015), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is presently on a hot seat as the United States (US) plans to veto her nomination for the job of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General (DG). Okonjo-Iweala, who was the first female Nigerian foreign Minister (2006), among eight nominees […]
Protests at the Lekki Toll Gate on 20 October were part of the #EndSARS protests that began on 8 October 2020. Nigerians have been taking to the streets, peacefully demanding an end to police brutality, extrajudicial executions and extortion by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit of the […]
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, on Sunday threatened to publish “fraudulent financial transactions between Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB and politicians sponsoring his activities through third parties” The group, a strong advocate for Igbo Presidency come 2023 in a series of press statements had claimed the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) […]
Lagos State Government says that 181 students and staff of a private boarding school in Lekki area of the state have tested positive to COVID-19 infection. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Abayomi said that the cases were detected […]
The US Department of State — Bureau of Consular Affairs has included Nigeria in its list of ineligible countries to apply for the 2022 Visa Lottery. A United States (US) federal judge had in September ordered the Donald Trump-led administration to resume issuing diversity visas for immigrants from underrepresented countries, […]
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has on Tuesday pleaded with the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom for an out-of-court settlement in a suit against him. The former National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) had in a press briefing on July 27, 2018, accused Governor Ortom of masterminding the death […]
The Edo Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin has received petitions from five political parties and their candidates, challenging the declaration of Governor Godwin Obaseki as the rightful winner of the September 19 poll. The Secretary of the tribunal, Sunday Martins, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria […]
Neo-feminism in Nigeria is taking a rather strange dimension. Young girls and ladies seem to be using this old form of political and social struggle to communicate their innermost feelings in ways that feel irrational to a lot of men. While the country struggles in a time of recession, and […]
The Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been rumoured by some Biafra agitators to have been dead and long buried. According to their claim, the president was replaced by a look-alike from Sudan named “Jubril”; thus an impostor. Thou there is no concrete evidence to validate this, this group has never […]
