Vice President Kashim Shettima, has revealed plans by the Federal Government to build houses, clinics and schools at Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government area of Kaduna State. The Spokesman of the Vice-President, Stanley Nkwocha, in a statement on Thursday, said Shettima made this known when he...
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The National Judicial Council (NJC) chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, rose from its 104th meeting of December 6 and 7, 2023, affirming that Justice Adepele Ojo is still the recognised Chief Judge of Osun State. The Council directed Osun State to revert...
Former Special Adviser to the President on the Niger Delta and Chairman Presidential Amnesty Implementation Committee, Chief Kingsley Kuku, PhD, recently paid a courtesy visit to the incumbent Chief Executive Officer, Major-General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd) Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). The duo responded to questions from...
The Senate has threatened to step down consideration on the 2024 budget of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS) over insufficient information Sen. Adams Oshiomhole, the Chairman,Senate Committee on Interior, Sen.Adams Oshiomole, said this said this at the 2024 budget defence of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Interior...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved a nine-member governing council and management of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). The president’s approval was contained in a statement issued by the presidential spokesman, Mr Ajuri Ngelale, on Thursday in Abuja. According...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – For several hours, on Thursday, travellers along Lafia-Makurdi federal express-way were held hostage by students of Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), who protested over the kidnap of 10 fellow students. The students were kidnapped by suspected kidnappers at their off-campus lodge in...
Gunmen on Wednesday night abducted yet-to-be ascertained number of students of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia). The students were abducted in Gandu community near the university, Mr Abubakar Ibrahim, Head of Information and Public Relations of the institution, indicated. According to him, the incident happened outside the...
Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen will slug it out with Egypt’s Mohamed Salah and Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi for the 2023 CAF Men’s Player of the Year award. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) released the final three shortlist on its...
Trading activities on equity market of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd.(NGX) ended lower on Thursday, reversing some of the gains recorded Wednesday, due to sell-off in Tier-one bank shares. Specifically, the market capitalisation decreased by N192 billion or 0.49 per cent to close at N39. 103 trillion from N39.295...
Mr Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has inaugurated Phase II of the rehabilitation and resurfacing of roads in FCT, towards making Abuja a befitting capital city. Wike explained during the inauguration in Abuja on Thursday, that the Phase II would cover 49 roads in...
Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, says the culprits of the drone bombings in Tudun Biri community, Igabi Local Government of Kaduna State will not be spared. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that Shettima disclosed this on Thursday when he visited Kaduna to commiserate with the state government...
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, says his visit to Kuje Custodial Centre in the FCT was part of advocacy to commemorate his 8th-year ascension to the throne. He said in his palace on Thursday that his visit to the centre was not to visit embattled...
Sunshine Stars FC of Akure players were on Thursday attacked by gunmen on their way to Benin for a Nigeria Premier Football League match day 13 with Bendel Insurance of Benin. This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen by the club’s Media Officer, Michael Akintunde...
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi II, has called for a proper audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), noting that this call was what cost him his job at the apex bank. Sanusi made this known while delivering his remarks...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In a bid to ensure the 100% implementation of the country’s annual budget, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the country’s budgeting agencies to separate the budget of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) from Nigeria’s annual budget. ...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Amidst controversies surrounding the Gubernatorial election petition appeals in Kano, Plateau, and Zamfara states, the North East Coalition of Women in Politics (NEWPol) and Arewa Awareness Group for Political Stability (AAGPS), have urgently called upon the Supreme Court to thoroughly reevaluate the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has allocated the sum of $4.5 million to the FCT Fadama CARES programme to implement three disbursement linked Indicators (DLIs) out of a total allocation of $15 million made available to the FCTA by the World Bank...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A Member of the then Tinubu Independent Campaign Council, Godfrey Manasseh, has said that the President has forgiven former Speaker Yakubu Dogara despite refusing to support him during the election. He said that despite Dogara’s alignment with some Christian groups from...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, awarded a N500 million in damages against Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi for violating the fundamental rights of Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s candidate in the Nov. 11 governorship election in the state. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a...