By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Joe Ajaero on his emergence as the new president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The president, in a congratulatory message by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday in Abuja, also hailed the National Executive Committee of...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Rashida, wife of Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi and a relative for alleged fraud. Rashida was arraigned before a federal high court in Abuja alongside one Ali Bello, identified as a nephew to the Kogi...
The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) of Nigeria has said that the Supreme Court ruling of Wednesday stopping the February 10 deadline for the validity of three old naira notes is designed to enable corrupt politicians to share old N200, N500 and N1,000 notes during the February 25...
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) says it is on high alert and will identify, arrest and prevent foreigners from participating in the forthcoming 2023 elections.. The NIS Comptroller General, Isa Jere said this during an election retreat organised for NIS Zonal Coordinators and Command Comptrollers, on Wednesday in Abuja....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday re-arraigned a social media influencer and comedienne, Adedamola Adewale alias Adeherself, for alleged of N7.9 million internet fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adewale was charged alongside two others at large, on a three-count charge of conspiracy...
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), said it intercepted 68 pieces of military camouflage, 1,235 wraps of hemp weighing 1,163kg and others in January. The Acting Controller of the unit, Hussein Ejibunu, said this at a media conference on Wednesday, adding that...
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, APC presidential candidate, says the Supreme Court ruling on the implication of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) re-designed naira notes and cashless policy has saved Nigeria from political and economic shutdown. Tinubu in a statement issued by Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity, APC Presidential...
The MTN Foundation, on Wednesday, donated science laboratories worth N60 million to Aquinas College, Akure, Ondo State. Chairman of MTN Foundation, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, who inaugurated the laboratories, said that the gesture was to strengthen the scientific knowledge of students in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. While noting that the...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Richard Ogunwole, on Wednesday, advised Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to abide by the Supreme Court’s temporary order halting the move by the Federal Government to ban the use of old naira notes from Feb. 10. Ogunwole, who gave the advice in...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday swore-in new executives, with Mr Joe Ajaero as the new president to lead the workers for the next four years. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ajaero, former General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Union, was voted on...
The Court of Appeal on Wednesday affirmed Peter Obi as presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February elections. In a unanimous decision, the appellate court struck out the appeal challenging Obi’s candidacy and awarded N200,000 each in favours of INEC and the LP each. The court...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has all the support and confidence to win the presidential, governorship and other positions in Katsina State at the forthcoming general elections. The party’s gubernatorial candidate, Sen. Yakubu Lado-Danmarke made the declaration at a campaign rally on Wednesday in Matazu Local Government...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The National Directorate of Employment (NDA) through its Small Scale Enterprises Department has commenced a 5 day basic business training for 65 school leavers and artisans in Sokoto State. In his keynote address, The Director General of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fipko said it...
The Federal Ministry of Education has approved the use of corporate/cape size hijab as part of the school uniform of female Muslim students in all the 112 Federal Unity Colleges, together with Federal Science and Technical Colleges. The approval was contained in a circular released by the Office of...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT), in line with its mandate, has rolled out some advisories in the first few weeks of the year 2023 as cyber threat actors continue to devise means of compromising their targets. The advisories are...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former governor of Cross Rivers, Donald Duke, are among the dignitaries to grace the Golden Jubilee celebration of the Federal Government College, Ilorin, on Feb. 18. The Chairperson, Local Organising Committee, Dr Banke Balogun, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of...
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Dr Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, has revealed that his Ministry, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has registered about 1.6 million beneficiaries of the National Social Investments Programmes (NSIP) on the e-Naira platform. The...
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) says the 2023 general elections will hold as scheduled. Yakubu said this on Wednesday in Abuja when he fielded questions from State House Correspondents after he briefed the Federal Executive Council (FEC)on level of preparedness for the...
Some Nigerians, on Wednesday, lauded the Supreme Court’s ruling which invalidated the Feb. 10 deadline imposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria for the old N200, N500 and N1000 notes to cease to be legal tenders. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the seven-member panel of the...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, is being buffeted by a platoon of vested interests in Nigeria. His ‘sin’ is that he redesigned the naira, thus rendering the old notes invalid from a particular date. No sane person will find himself in Emefiele’s position...