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    Mrs. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the widow of the late Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, the leader of Biafra, has said that she slapped the wife of former Anambra State governor because the latter tried to remove her hair tie, an act that is considered a sacrilege for a titled Igbo woman.    The former beauty queen […]

…apologises for Franca, Ebelechukwu Obiano fracas   Professor Charles Soludo, who was sworn in on Thursday as Anambra State governor, has made key appointments hours after taking office.   Soludo announced the appointment of Prof Solo Chukwulobelu as the Secretary to the State Government, thereby retaining the man who also served in the same capacity […]

Nigeria on Thursday, March 17, 2022, returned to the international capital market where it issued seven-year Eurobonds of $1.25 billion.   This makes the country the first African country to approach the international capital market in the year 2022, the Debt Management Office said in a statement issued late Thursday.   “Nigeria’s ability to access […]

The oil price spike following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had divergent effects on the currencies of Africa’s major oil producers, a report produced by AZA Africa’s largest non-bank currency broker by trading volume at over $1 billion a year.   Angola, currently Africa’s third-largest oil producer, has seen its currency, the Kwanza, jump nearly […]

 www.www.aso.rocks search engine can disclose that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has uncovered one million illegal institutional admissions    This was revealed in a statement issued by JAMB’s Head of Media and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin.   JAMB  blamed the inability of some candidates to obtain their admission letters which would qualify them to proceed […]

www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday arrested the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.   Obiano’s arrest came a few hours after he handed over the reins of power in Anambra to Professor Charles Soludo, who was sworn in […]

  Drama ensued on Thursday at the inauguration of Prof Chukwuma Soludo as the governor of Anambra when the wife of outgoing Gov. Willie Obiano, Ebelechukwu, slapped Mrs Bianca Ojukwu at the event.   The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who was at the scene of the event reports that the incident occurred immediately […]

The Nigerian government has admitted raising the electricity tariff in the country, even as the country’s power crisis worsened in the past four days. According to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Wednesday that meant that a subsidy on power projected to cost N600bn for the year, had been halted.   The NERC disclosed this […]

The  National Judicial Council has placed Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of the Federal Capital Territory High Court on watchlist over alleged misconduct.   This was announced by Soji Oye, spokesman of the Council in a  statement, saying the action was taken at the 97th meeting of the council on March 15 and March 16, 2022. […]

www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands that the crisis rocking the Nigerian aviation industry reached a new dimension on Tuesday, with a threat by the Airline Operators of Nigerian threatening to ground all their airplanes by Friday if nothing was done to curb rising costs.   The threat was handed down by Alhaji Yunusa, the President of […]

www.www.aso.rocks search engine can disclose that Operators of airlines in Nigeria on Monday warned that the lowest air ticket in the country could cost as much as N120,000, driven by the current exorbitant price of aviation fuel, or Jet A1.   This came as the intervention of the House of Representatives, the Nigerian National Petroleum […]

www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands that Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), a unit of Italian oil giant, Eni, has shut in 25,000 barrels of oil per day following a blast at its facility in Nembe, in Bayelsa State.   The blast and the disruptions have forced the company to declare a force majeure, the company said […]