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DOMESTIC air fares paid by passengers on specified routes for a single journey within Nigeria have risen by 52% over the past 12 months according to recent data published the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

IJAW elder statesman and former federal commissioner Chief Edwin Clark has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman Senator Iyorchia Ayu to resign his position immediately following the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has warned the people of Ohaji Local Government Area of Imo State against ceding their land to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.

FORMER Imo State governor Senator Rochas Okorocha has been granted bail in the sum of N500m ($1.2m) by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the federal high court in Abuja after he was arraigned on a 17-count charge of fraud.

ENGLISH Championship side Hull City are looking to purchase Nigerian striker Anthony Nwakaeme from Turkish side Trabzonspor during the summer transfer window as part of a major squad strengthening programme.

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[1] Nigeria currently has about 21.7m unemployed people, 10.5m out-of-school children, about 3m internal refugees and 90m people living below the UN acknowledged poverty of surviving on less than $2 a day

FORMER Imo State governor Senator  Rochas Okorocha has filed a suit in Abuja seeking a declaration that the recent invasion of his residence by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials was illegal and unconstitutional.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State blamed southern governors for his recent loss in the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) presidential primaries saying that they betrayed their region at a time when they were needed.

FORMER Anambra State governor Peter Obi  has been adopted as the Labour Party's presidential candidate after his sole opponent Professor Pat Utomi stood down at the party’s presidential primary in the Delta State capital Asaba.