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21/12/2021

15/09/2021

https://www.naijapolitical.com/post/okonjo-iweala-named-among-time-s-100-most-influential-people-of-2021

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has been named in Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people for 2021. Time Magazine’s annual list of 100 most influential people in the world accords recognition to “people whose ideas, example, talent, or d...

15/09/2021

https://www.naijapolitical.com/post/secessionist-group-writes-un-says-nigeria-on-verge-of-disintegration

The Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) has asked the United Nations (UN) to intervene in Nigeria, saying the country is on the verge of violent disintegration. NINAS refers to itself as a “multi-ethnic alliance of the indigenous peoples of the Middle Belt (pa...

14/09/2021

https://www.naijapolitical.com/post/i-have-no-immediate-plan-to-be-lagos-governor-says-gbajabiamila

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, says he has no immediate plan to become the governor of Lagos State. He stated this when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm, in reaction to speculations that he was making a move to contest the governorship...

14/09/2021

https://www.naijapolitical.com/post/sealed-banks-vow-not-to-reopen-niger-branches

Banks have threatened to shut down because of the decision of the Niger State Internal Revenue Service to seal off some of their branches over N456.7m tax liability. The affected banks are Stanbic IBTC with tax liability of N113.2m; Polaris Bank, N74.8m; UBA, N68.9m; Union Bank, N47.1m; First Bank,....

14/09/2021

https://www.naijapolitical.com/post/orji-kalu-to-fg-grant-amnesty-to-detained-ipob-members-igboho-supporters

Orji Kalu, senate chief whip, says the detained members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and associates of Sunday Igboho deserve to be granted amnesty. The former Abia governor said they should be given the same treatment as repentant Boko Haram insurgents and bandits. In a statement issued...

14/09/2021

https://www.naijapolitical.com/post/citizens-are-getting-poorer-because-nigeria-is-borrowing-for-wrong-reasons-peter-obi

A former vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi says Nigerians are getting poorer because the government is borrowing for the wrong reasons. Mr Obi, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, argued that while it is not a crime to borrow money, ...

14/09/2021

https://www.naijapolitical.com/post/anthony-stimler-former-glencore-trader-exposes-diezani-over-bribery-scheme-in-nigeria

Anthony Stimler, a former employee of Glencore Plc West Africa desk, has exposed Diezani Alison-Madueke, ex-petroleum minister in Nigeria, in a bribery scheme in Nigeria. According to Bloomberg, Stimler confessed in a cooperation deal at the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan. Bloomberg said sinc...

14/09/2021

https://www.naijapolitical.com/post/president-buhari-writes-senate-requests-fresh-loan-of-4bn-and-710m

President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly, seeking approval to borrow the sum of $4,054,476,863 billion and €710 million. The request was made known in a letter read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan at plenary on Tuesday. In the letter titled Addendum to Request For Senate’s...

05/09/2021

https://www.naijapolitical.com/post/fg-agrees-to-meet-resident-doctors-demands-but-insists-on-no-work-no-pay-policy

The federal government says it has agreed to meet all the demands of the striking resident doctors but the no-work, no-pay policy will be implemented. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has been on strike for the past one month over “irregular payment of salaries”, among other i...