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Half Year: Dangote Sugar posts N29:73 bn profit

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 3, 2022 154 Post a comment

 Nigeria’s largest sugar refinery, Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has recorded a profit before tax (PBT) of N29.73 billion for the half year ended June 30, 2022. According to the refiner’s unaudited results posted on the portals of the Nigerian Exchange, PBT rose by N10.97 billion compared to N18.76 billion recorded in the corresponding period in […]Continue Reading

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Dogara on APC Muslim-Muslim ticket: Nigeria going the way of the Nazi Germany

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 30, 2022 136 0

APC looking like a “janjaweed” party Nigeria of 2022 is not 1993 Tinubu has made a fatal error of judgment The adoption of a Muslim-Muslim Presidential and Vice Presidential ticket by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is capable of leading Nigeria to disintegration like Yugoslavia, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, the immediate past Speaker of […]Continue Reading

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 Why prices of local rice continue to increase in spite of increase in domestic production

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 29, 2022 207 0

Daniel Adaji The price of locally-produced rice has continued to increase in Nigeria despite the increasing volume of rice production in the country. In 2017, it cost N16,000 on average to purchase 50kg of locally-produced rice. Due to multibillion Naira intervention by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), under its Anchor Borrowers’ Scheme, the price […]Continue Reading

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Lassa fever casualties on the rise in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 29, 2022 159 0

Daniel Adaji Since December 2016, Lassa fever infection has been on the rise in the country, as the number of confirmed cases and deaths of health workers and their patients is on the increase. Between 2016 and 2022, Nigeria has recorded 4,308 confirmed cases and 978 confirmed deaths, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease […]Continue Reading

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Is it true that no presidential candidate wins if he does not receive overwhelming votes from the Muslim-North?

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 29, 2022 172 0

MYTHS, FACTS AND DATA ABOUT NIGERIA’S ELECTIONS By Daniel Adaji In the next few weeks, we shall make recourse to data to examine 10 myths about contemporary politics in Nigeria, especially in the context of the ongoing fears, tension, and hysteria over same-faith tickets in the race to change the baton of leadership in the […]Continue Reading

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No report of mass violence, vote-buying in Osun guber poll -Police

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 17, 2022 118 0

By Kelecho Ogunleye The police say they have yet to receive reports of violence or vote-buying in Saturday’s Osun governorship election. Mr. Johnson Kokumo, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) said this after a visit to ward 5, unit 5 Salvation Army alekuwodo polling unit in Osogbo. Kokumo said that […]Continue Reading

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Osun: Buhari congratulates Adeleke on election victory

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 17, 2022 176 Post a comment

By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Sen. Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), following the victory of the party in Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Osun. The President’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Sunday in Abuja. The president expressed conviction Continue Reading

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Muslim – Muslim Ticket : Time For A Referendum Not Election

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 16, 2022 187 Post a comment

By Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo With the hue and cry of some Nigerians over the Muslim – Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s decision to pick Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate, I cannot but ask why are they being unnecessarily emotional, sentimental, hypocritical and dramatic? As […]Continue Reading

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Zulum allots 259 houses, N110 million to Borno police

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 15, 2022 109 0

… IGP calls Governor’s support enormous Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday in Maiduguri, announced the government’s allocation of 259 houses and the release of N110m to the Nigerian Police Force in the state. Zulum made the announcement during the commissioning of Borno’s branch of the Nigerian Police Force Microfinance Bank (NPFM Bank). […]Continue Reading

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The Blunder in Not Having State Police

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 15, 2022 151 0

By Eric Teniola The non inclusion of State Police in the Constitution was an error. It was a grave omission. The lapse occurred in 1976, forty-six years ago. No one could have imagined forty-six years ago that our security challenges would become so grave to this level, that we now live in perpetual fear at […]Continue Reading

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When Supreme Court Justices turn whistleblowers

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 12, 2022 134 0

By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem  On Thursday, July 14, 2022, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) in collaboration with Yar’Adua Foundation will launch the Corruption Anonymous (CORA) whistleblowing platform at Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. The CORA platform is a secure civil society driven public whistleblowing tool through which Continue Reading

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‘Why Chibok Schoolgirls were abducted’- by former Borno State Governor Shettima

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 10, 2022 167 0

(This is an excerpt of an interview Governor Shettima granted Theophilus Abbah and published in Daily Trust on Sunday in May 2014) It’s about two weeks since Chibok schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram. Is there any good news for their parents? ‎That incident is one nightmare that troubles me so much as a father […]Continue Reading