On February 2, 2026, Onitsha Main Market — one of Nigeria's biggest commercial hubs — officially reopened its gates after a one-week temporary shutdown ordered by Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo.
The closure came as punishment for traders' continued observance of Monday "sit-at-home" orders (linked to regional security and IPOB issues), costing the state billions in lost revenue weekly. Governor Soludo had warned of stricter measures if markets stayed shut on Mondays, but today marks a return to normalcy — with security assurances from the state.
In this exclusive morning footage: Traders and shoppers gradually returning to shops and stalls
Busy walkways with people carrying goods and opening up for business
Signs of life in the usually packed market sections Some areas still quieter than usual, showing hesitation from fear or uncertainty Is this a big win for Soludo against sit-at-home enforcers, or just partial compliance?
I challenge this person to make a video of main market on any other working day and compare it to today's video.
Some mu.mu people are here jubulilating. When Main market opens, you won't even get a space to walk because cars would've blocked all the roads. No vehicular movement as well but see how empty the road is.
Make una no dey mumuni una self. This is not up to a tenth of the market when it is opened
Maybe she was the balling type, looking for the richest of the richest. When she was being advised back then, she didn't listen but now reality has dawned on her but it's too late. Her younger sisters and cousins are married. They will be calling her aunty gbegbegbe! I pray she finds someone at least after this publicity.
Menclothing1: Jokers and he won second tenure easily and he will contest for senate and win too that mean soludo have large percent of voting citizens like him than the one who don’t
You're not on ground so you can't reason like those who are concerned. Anambarians had a choice to make, either Soludo or an APC bandit who would bring insecurity and kill many Igbos. They voted Soludo not because he was worth it but because the choice was between two evils and the lesser evil was chosen
Ofunaofu: Lagos announces new tax law empowers state to seize funds from bank accounts, friends, family members
According to the service, the law permits direct recovery where a taxpayer fails to remit an established tax liability when due.
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service has disclosed that the new tax law empowers state revenue agencies to recover unpaid taxes by seizing funds from the bank accounts of employers, friends, business partners, tenants, and other third parties connected to a tax defaulter.
LIRS informed Lagos residents and business owners that the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, 2025 authorises the service to deduct outstanding taxes from rent payments, as well as from accounts belonging to business partners, family members and friends who hold money on behalf of a defaulting taxpayer.
According to the service, the law permits direct recovery where a taxpayer fails to remit an established tax liability when due, expanding enforcement beyond the defaulter’s personal accounts to include those of individuals or entities financially linked to them.
LIRS explained that under Section 60 of the NTAA 2025, the state may issue substitution notices to banks, employers, tenants and any person holding or owing money to a tax defaulter, directing them to remit such funds to the service in settlement of the debt.
“Where a taxpayer fails, neglects or refuses to settle any established outstanding tax liability when due, LIRS may exercise its power under Section 60 to direct any of the following persons to pay the amount owed by the taxpayer: banks and other financial institutions, employers, tenants, debtors, or customers of the taxpayer, agents, business partners, and any person holding money on behalf of the taxpayer and any person owing money to the taxpayer, whether presently due or accruing,” LIRS wrote in a statement.
In such cases, LIRS said it would issue a substitution notice to the defaulter’s bank or to those of third parties holding funds on the taxpayer’s behalf.
Financial institutions are mandated by law to notify LIRS of the account balance of the defaulter and those of their friends and family and remit the outstanding taxes “without delay.”
A receipt confirming payment of outstanding taxes is then sent to the LIRS e-Tax platform:www.stax.lirs.net.
The service warned that under the newly implemented law, failure to comply with a substitution directive constitutes an offence, noting that friends, business associates and other third parties connected to tax defaulters may bear financial responsibility where they are found to be holding funds belonging to the taxpayer.
The NTAA 2025, since its January 1 implementation, has generated rancour among lawmakers who accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of making unapproved alterations in the gazetted versions
This law automatically means that you can be relaxing at Canada then you get a debit alert saying a person, you probably have never met claims you have some money that belongs to him. Gbam! Your 20 million naira is cleared. You will run from pillar to post and the bank will tell you the tax office has taken the money.
The best you can do is empty your bank account or transfer it to an offshore account.
Tears go plenty this year. I know there's a tribe that's the major target.
jogojogo: I tell u. These guys loose every battle. The moment they start supporting you political, that's enough evidence for you to quit
Well, the ultimate battle which is the essence of it all has been won.
Biafra is here already. The country will be split. Talks are ongoing already to Deamalgamate this evil company called Nigga-area. The Igbos will be free from the evil clutches of Nigeria and its agents.
Racoon: Why must the US govt be the one to prime the Nigerian govt that has been recycling the terrorist as repentant terrorists?
The shame and disgrace is on you lots and your irredeemably useless and irresponsible govt for failure to live up to its constitutional responsibility of protecting lives by safeguarding its citizens from terrorists.
Just wishing this government will make a fatal mistake that will anger the U.S government so that the country will be divided quickly. I can't wait to be separated from these evil lots that keep blaming Igbos for evil everything other tribes have done wrong.
The dissolution will be so sweet, those evil politicians won't have us to blame again. Or they will still blame us even when we are completely out of their evil reach.
Racoon: Why must the US govt be the one to prime the Nigerian govt that has been recycling the terrorist as repentant terrorists?
The shame and disgrace is on you lots and your irredeemably useless and irresponsible govt for failure to live up to its constitutional responsibility of protecting lives by safeguarding its citizens from terrorists.
Just wishing this government will make a fatal mistake that will anger the U.S government so that the country will be divided quickly. I can't wait to be separated from these evil lots that keep blaming Igbos for evil everything other tribes have done wrong.
The dissolution will be so sweet, those evil politicians won't have us to blame again. Or they will still blame us even when we are completely out of their evil reach
Dijita: I transferred #200k to from my Zenith to sterling bank account. I got charged total of #153.75. #53.75 for NIP=VAt and #50 for FGN stamp duty. Is this appropriate. Those in the know should educate
Biafra is here... There's nothing you can do about the charges just keep more cash at hand
Potvalor: A total of One Thousand, Two Hundred and Eleven (1,211) students will bag first class and distinction categories of degrees at the 56th Convocation Ceremonies of the University of Lagos.
The number is made up of 617 first-class honours and 92 distinctions, all in the Bachelor’s Degree category, and 502 distinctions in the Postgraduate category.
But the spotlight will be on UMEOZOR, Chukwuzubelu Benedict (Male), who made a perfect Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.00 in Business Administration as the 2024/2025 Overall Best Graduating Student and Best in Humanities while OLOTON, Deborah Isiuwa (Female) who graduated with a CGPA of 4.91 in Architecture is the Best Graduating Student in the Sciences for the year.
Further breakdown of the graduation statistics shows that:
- Four thousand, five hundred and forty-three (4,543) graduated in the Second-Class Upper category, - Three thousand, nine hundred and ten (3,910) are in the Second-Class Lower Division, - One thousand and twenty-three (1,023) are graduating with Third-Class, Sixty-nine (69) finished with Pass and - A total of three hundred and thirty (330) have degrees that are not classified (from the Faculties of Pharmacy, Dental Sciences, Health Professionals, and Clinical Sciences).
In the School of Postgraduate Studies;
- a total of four hundred and seventy-nine (479) students will bag Postgraduate Diploma certificates (PGD). Out of this figure, forty-one (41) made distinctions. - Five thousand, one hundred and forty-eight (5,148) will graduate in the Masters Degree category, with four hundred and twenty-nine (429) having Distinctions - One hundred and nineteen (119) will bag Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in various disciplines.
drstranged: This is not a gender war. I am specifically referring to women, and I want honest discussion.
I find this behaviour hypocritical and two-faced, and I’ll explain why.
A woman accuses her boyfriend of “disturbing her for sex,” says he’s too sexually demanding, and uses that as a major reason to end the relationship.
Fine. She has every right to leave.
But after the breakup, she goes on to date other men and ends up having the same sex she complained about — sometimes even more. Those relationships don’t work out. Then she comes back to the original man.A lady broke up with my friend because she said he was disturbing her too much for sex. After leaving him, she entered two separate relationships at different times and had sex with both men. Both relationships ended badly. She later tried to return to my friend.
The issue is not that she dated other men — that is her choice.
The issue is this: How do you accuse a man and blame him for wanting sex, end a relationship because of it, and then turn around to willingly give even more sex to other men?
To my friend, this came across as dishonest justification for the breakup, a clear case of blaming him for something that was not really the problem, and an attempt to return only after discovering the grass was not greener elsewhere. Naturally, he no longer saw her the same way. Respect was lost, and attraction died.
So my questions are straightforward: First, Isn’t it hypocritical to condemn a man for wanting sex, only to offer the same or more sex to others? Second, Why expect a man to accept you back after treating him like the problem? Don’t actions like this damage how a man values and respects you?
This is not hatred. It is a real pattern I’ve observed, and it deserves honest conversation.
I have good news for you and your friend. While others are advising you, just know that BIAFRA IS HERE. Prepare to live a better life than the zoo ever had to offer
lecowas: You see, she has a plan from the beginning and she has only succeeded in phase 1(sx) and phase 2(stop paying rent). She has started executing phase 3(scatter u and ur fiance) strategically. But the good news is the plan reach phase 6-7.
At the phase 7, he will be evicted from his house because by then she would be married to him with a kid. She will keep custody of the house.
These heeidiots really take us for fools... No dead bodies, no bandits running or shooting back. No gun fire, just a stupid helicopter with bottled of water hovering around destroyed buildings (probably belonging to natives).
You people should be able to do better Na, the operation seems to be on going but there's no exchange of gun fire, no KIA, no one has caught. This federal government of terrorists should keep deceiving themselves. Only heeeediots will believe this.
Sonnobax15: A Nigerian banny can go to any length just to secure a man to herself from the very first moment she senses the man in question is well-to-do .
She fell in love with the innocent man from the moment she saw the photos of the young man on IG . Just take a look at how she described how the man flew down with speed just to pay her dowry and I know she wouldn't waste a second to say YES to his proposal cuz she was already in a joyous gold digging mood
promami: Do you know how much the so called working remotely is costing the state even though it's his personal residence? Do you know how much he spends on foods even though it's his personal residence?
Some of una no just get sense at all... The question is, is the man performing at all??
Make una go rest, Nigeria fit una. Very backward thinking people. Out of everything, this is what you lot can come up with. In less than 3 years Otti has done what others haven't done in 24 years. Make una rest.
Abbeytoy: In the last two years, things have not been going well with my brother and his wife. My brother will call me and lament about his wife's behaviour, he told me that anytime they have a misunderstanding, this lady changes the key and locks him out in the cold. Though he's the one who pays the rent and all the bills, the lady gets child support and spends lavishly on unnecessary things while the apartment is given to his wife by the government.
But the last one she did, my brother left the house and swore never to have anything to do with her again. Even my brother did it to the extent that he requested the DNA of the son; unfortunately, he's the owner.
This lady has been begging everyone, and both her parents and some family members have travelled down to our place to plead on her behalf, but my brother insisted he's not interested in the marriage again.
He was scouting with one of our cousins before, and we thought that when he got tired, he'd move back home as usual, but this man has gotten an apartment and does not let anyone know the location.
The worst of it all is that he did not talk to his 7-year-old son and didn't take on any responsibilities for him again.
The boy keeps crying to see his dad, but my brother keeps saying her mother is only using him to get his attention, saying the boy will see him when it's the right time.
This lady called me last week and said he wanted to pack from the house and my brother should come move all his belongings, but my brother sent me back to her that she should throw everything away, he mentioned that the lady can frame him up or call the police for him and turn to legal battles.
I believe whatever happened between them, the boy did not cause it, and cutting off his only child emotionally and financially is not self-protection but abandonment.
I know marriage can end, but fatherhood should not. You can abandon marriage and still fully show up as a father. The two are not the same contract
All the family are tired, and even I, his closest brother, am tired. I only want him to be a responsible dad to his only child.
Please, what can I do? I really love my brother and want peace for him, however I pity his child.
Are you sure you're not the lady that chased him out of his own house?
Let him be... He knows what he has seen and how wicked the woman can be. When the boy grows up, he will get to see his dad, period!
tophumble: Temu will fade out soon with all these nonsense
Unfortunately, they won't. Many Nigerians have refused to read the details of what they are buying that's why they keep falling victim to outrageous prices for miniature products.
I've bought many stuffs from Temu and I'm expecting more packages.
Read description and dimensions, then never forget to read reviews. If there are no reviews showing pictures of that product which others have bought, just leave the product.
Read reviews always irrespective of what you see. Good luck!
babydioku: BREAKING NEWS: Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'adu Abubakar, has reportedly left his palace for an unknown location, sparking concerns and speculations. The Sultan is the spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslim community and head of the Sokoto Caliphate, a position he has held since 2006.
The palace, a symbol of Islamic heritage and governance in northern Nigeria, is usually bustling with activities, but the sudden departure has left many wondering about the circumstances surrounding his exit.
If he has nothing to hide, why is he going into hiding? I hope it has nothing to do with the US bombings. Abi this guy hand no clean??
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