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BREAKING: Popular Nollywood Actor, Mr Ibu Is Dead

Wendy R.

Nollywood actor, John Okafor, popularly known as Mr Ibu, is dead. He was said to have died on Saturday, March 2, 2024. In October 2023, the veteran actor was reported ill and required financial assistance. But in November 2023, Okafor’s family confirmed that one of his legs had been amputated to keep him alive. The amputation became necessary because of an infection of the arteries at the ankle that was not detected early enough, his former manager Emeka Chochoo told PUNCH Online in November 2023 in an exclusive chat. Family sources have confirmed the passing of Mr Ibu to newsmen.…

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Tinubu Inherited A Dead Economy – Soludo Says

Wendy R.

Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has stated that the administration of President Bola Tinubu took over a “dead economy” bequeathed by its predecessors. The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria stated this on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Thursday, Nov. 23, while analysing the naira’s decline under the new government. Soludo said that Tinubu’s administration inherited a dead economy before it assumed office. He blamed this on past violations of the apex bank’s establishment law, which bars deficit financing above five per cent of prior year revenues. He accused the CBN under past management of illegally granting trillions…