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The PDP South-west Publicity Secretary, Chief Sanya Atofarati, has alleged that  the Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu is currently in talk with the authorities of the Supreme Court to negotiate the allocation of the state for his favour in the yet-to-be decided Governorship judgement in Ondo state.  Contained in a statement by his (Ondo state) Special Assistant, Comrade Omoniyi called on labour unions in the state to rise in defence of civil servants to prevent the menace purportedly concocted by the state Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, to negotiating their salaries with the forthcoming supreme court judgement which he believes would be in favour of his party, PDP. In his words, Omoniyi said; "It has come to our notice that the Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu Odunayo has been negotiating the forthcoming Supreme Court Judgement with the State allocations just for favouritism.  It is imperative to make this known to the general public and p...

A new World Bank report says that Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari will lose the economic gains it made in the last decade at the end of 2021. “By the end of 2021, Nigeria’s GDP is likely to approach its 2010 level, thus reversing a full decade of economic growth,” the bank in its new report said. The World Bank’s projection comes as Nigeria strives to recover from the multiple recession that hit the country in 2016 and 2020. The bank in the report said that there will be a constant decline in the country’s GDP per capita despite recovery from recession, projecting the country’s population to grow faster than its economy. The bank further forecasted that despite the country’s gradual recovery from the 2020 recession, Nigerians masses will continue to suffer the adverse effect of the economic downturn. Applauding Mr Buhari for taking bold steps to reform the country’s deteriorating economic condition, the bank advised the government to deepen its recent reforms that ...