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Economic gains must show in Nigerians’ lives — CIBNk
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Nigeria @66: OPS demands productivity gains from reforms

By Yinka Kolawole As Nigeria marks its 66th independence anniversary, Nigeria’s organised private sector (OPS) has challenged the Federal Government to turn recent macroeconomic gains into measurable improvements in productivity, business competitiveness, jobs, household purchasing power, warning that stabilisation will have limited impact unless it lowers the cost of producing and living in Nigeria. In […]

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Alleged Fatal Assault: NLC declares strike in Delta
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Hardship: Federal, state, LG workers begin 3-day warning strike nationwide today

Public sector unions under the aegis of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, have directed all federal, state and local government employees, including staff of ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, nationwide, to begin a three-day warning strike from midnight today over the failure of government to address their demands.

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Tinubu and his incredible ministers, by Azu Ishiekwene
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Tinubu and his incredible ministers, by Azu Ishiekwene

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has failed to keep his promise to provide a constant electricity supply. He said at a business lunch in December 2022 that he shouldn’t be voted for a second term if he didn’t fix the electricity supply problem and end estimated billing in his first term. Although he modified that pledge […]

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Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, by Owei Lakemfa
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Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, by Owei Lakemfa

Slinger Francisco, better known as Mighty Sparrow, the “Calypso King of the World”, flew away on September 27, 2026. He was ninety. Calypso music was invented in the seventeenth century by African slaves in Trinidad who had mainly been taken from the Ibibio, Efik and Igbo peoples in present-day Nigeria and Congo. It is generally […]

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