Military veterans have continued their protest on Tuesday over delay in the payment of N134 billion Security Debarment Allowance approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in April. The veterans began the protest on Monday in front of the Ministry of Defence in Abuja. It would be recalled that the Minister...
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By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Troops of “Operation Forest Sanity’’ rescued seven abducted persons during a fighting patrol between Birnin Gwari and Chikun LGAs of Kaduna State. Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in Kaduna State, Mr Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the rescue in a statement he issued on...
Nigerian DJ, Florence Otedola also known as ‘Dj Cuppy’ has announced her graduation from the University of Oxford. In March of 2021, the artist revealed that she had been accepted into Oxford for a master’s degree programme. She took to her Twitter handle to mention how proud of herself...
Nigerian star Mikel Obi has retired from professional football after a sparkling career spanning twenty years. “There is a saying that ‘all good things must come to an end’, and for my professional football career, that day is today,” the 35-year-old former Chelsea man said on Tuesday. “I look...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that participation of citizens in democracy will continue to be encouraged through freedom of speech and robust political discourse. The president stated this when he received Letters of Credence from Ambassadors and High Commissioners of six countries at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday....
A Federal High Court in Abuja has refused granting an application by Mrs Seinya Luku-Briggs, Chairman, Board of Directors, Moni Pulo Limited, to vacate the EFCC’s warrant of arrest to probe her. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that it was the duty of the anti-graft agency to...
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has increased the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 14 per cent to 15.5 per cent on Tuesday to tame inflation. The committee had increased the MPR by a total of 250 basis points at its last two...
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill amending the Court of Appeal Act, 2013 increasing the number of Justices of Court of Appeal from 90 to 110 . This followed the adoption of the report of Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and legal Matters by Chairman of the...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Tuesday in Lagos, set ablaze 1.8 tons of cocaine recovered from a warehouse in Ikorodu area of Lagos on Sept 19. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the anti-narcotic agency had, on Sept. 19, stormed a warehouse in a...
Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD) has urged the Federal Government to ensure timely release of funds to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for 2023 general election. The Chairman, Council of the Wise, SCDDD, retired Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, made the appeal at a news conference on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Robbers have attacked the Executive Director of DAAR Communications Plc, Mac Imoni Amarere in Asokoro Area of Abuja. Amarere, DAAR Media Academy and Anchor of Peoples-Politics-Power on Africa Independent Television (AIT), was said to have been attacked and robbed during a traffic light stop...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya on Tuesday inaugurated the modernised and digitalised Museum of the Nigerian Army in Abuja. The museum, established in 1956 in Zaria, had housed the army’s historical artifacts in an analogue mode, until its recent transformation to the digital following its...
The House of Representatives has urged the Ministry of Works and Housing to urgently direct the contractor, Julius Berger Plc. to immediately return to site and complete its reconstruction of Abuja-Kaduna road. The house said that the reconstruction should start with the Jere–Kaduna stretch of the road. This followed...
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says it will not hesitate to prosecute any erring hospital or pharmaceutical company that undermines the workings of the health insurance scheme. Acting Coordinator of NHIA in Ogun, Mr Bode Adeleke, made this known on Tuesday at a one-day sensitisation workshop for stakeholders...
Qatar has called up hundreds of civilians, including diplomats summoned back from overseas, for mandatory military service operating security checkpoints at World Cup stadiums. According to a source and documents made available to Reuters, the deployment of conscripts, some of whom would normally defer national service because their work...
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has arrived in Enugu for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South-East Stakeholders Zonal Meeting. The PDP 2023 presidential candidate, who arrived in the Akanu Ibiam International Airport on Tuesday morning, is expected at the Baze Event Centre, Independence Layout Enugu, venue of the event....
The Executive Chairman, National Population Commission (NPC), Alhaji Nasir Kwarra on Tuesday said Post Enumeration Survey (PES) is designed to redress possible errors in the census process. Kwarra, represented by Dr Tony Ayejina, Federal Commissioner for Edo, said this in Abuja at the Master Trainers level on PES for...
The Senate on Tuesday at plenary, passed for second reading, a bill to amend the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act. Leading debate on the general principles of the bill, its sponsor, Sen. Sadiq Umar (APC-Kwara), said the bill was to enable the appointment of a person other than...
The National Industrial Court Abuja has struck out a suit instituted by one Umar Lawal, the President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, asking the Academic Staff Union of Universities, to call off its seven-month-old strike and return to school. Lawal had instituted the case on behalf of...
By BASSEY EFFIONG, Calabar – The 13 Brigade Nigerian Army, Calabar on Tuesday announced that it has concluded plans to hold a field training codenamed ‘Still Water’. The Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 13 Brigade, Capt. Dorcas Oluwatope, who disclosed this in a statement, said the exercise would commence...