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One of the traders in Onitsha Main Market, Gibson Okafor, has explained the reasons behind traders’ inability to open their shops on Mondays. The Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, had on Monday ordered that Onitsha Main Market be shut down for one week due to traders’ perceived compliance with the Monday sit-at-home order by non-state

A viral video circulating online has captured Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, expressing displeasure over the pace and sequence of work on a hospital project in the state. The footage, shared on Wednesday by Uche Nworah, former Special Adviser on General Duties to the Director-General of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, shows the governor addressing

The United States has started unblocking Venezuelan funds that were frozen under sanctions, the South American country’s interim president said Tuesday in the latest sign of rapprochement between long-term foes. Caracas has been under US sanctions, including an oil embargo, since 2019, following Nicolas Maduro’s first disputed claim to reelection the previous year. During his

A coalition of pan-Igbo self-determination activists, under the aegis of the Rising Sun Foundation, has condemned Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo’s use of security forces to enforce the closure of Onitsha Main Market. DAILY POST reports that armoured tanks and heavily armed security agents were deployed at the market on Tuesday after Soludo, on Monday,

A professor of political science at Nasarawa State University, Jideofor Adibe, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s foreign travels, saying the trips have taken a new dimension in recent years. Adibe spoke in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, while reacting to the president’s ongoing three-day state visit to Türkiye. “I think it’s

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be in China from January 28 to 31, barely two weeks after the state visit of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Starmer’s trip, the first British leader’s visit to China in eight years, followed an official invitation sent by the Premier of the State Council, Li Qiang. During previous