By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Judicial Council (NJC) at its 104 Meeting recommended the appointment of 11 Supreme Court Justices, one Justice of Court of Appeal, 6 Heads of Courts and 26 other Judicial Officers. The NJC’s Director of Information, Mr Soji Oye, disclosed...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – Ogun State Police Command has arrested two persons, Akeem Usman and Niyi Ifadowo, for allegedly killing 18-year-old 100-level Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) student, Quadri Salami, for rituals. The Command’s spokesman, SP Omolola Odutola,, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on...
Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo decorated the new Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Caroline Wura-Ola, with her new rank on Wednesday in Abuja. Tunji-Ojo also decorated six officers of the Service confirmed as Deputy Comptrollers-General. He told the decorated officers that their elevation came...
Sokoto State Government on Wednesday approved the purchase of vehicles worth N1.1 billion for the governor’s office. The approval was part of other contracts awarded at a sum of N19 billion. Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Bello Danchadi, told newsmen in Sokoto at the end of the weekly cabinet...
The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on Wednesday said that the emigration of Nigerians to developed countries contributed to the underdevelopment of the country. Oloyede made the assertion at the 17th Convocation lecture of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Awka, titled -‘Mainstreaming Uncertainty:...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A Bauchi based Civil Society Organization, Young Leaders Network, has condemned the description of the management of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) of its students, who came out to protest the killing of their schoolmate as “miscreants.” Recall that a final...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday said it has completed over 80 per cent of the power project under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) N123 billon intervention in power sector. The Programme Manager, TCN, Lagos Mr Matthew Ajibade, disclosed this during the inspection of different...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has signed two major agreements to deliver Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to the domestic gas market and the international LNG market. Held on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), NNPC Ltd. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
Some lawmakers in the third Republic, numbering over 18, on Wednesday besieged the National Assembly, demanding the payment of their entitlements and salaries. Mr Basil Okafor, a third republican lawmaker who led the delegation to the House of Representatives in Abuja, said they had not been paid their...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd.(NGX), Mr Temi Popoola, on Wednesday, said that the transition to virtual trading, following the incursion of the COVID-19 pandemic, remained a game changer in the capital market. Popoola stated this while delivering an address at the induction for newly qualified...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested five suspects in possession of five guns and security agencies’ uniforms were intercepted during the convention of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in Abuja. The Command’s spokesman, SP Josephine Adeh, said...
No fewer than 50 repentant hoodlums, on Wednesday surrendered their weapons to the Police in Gombe. The hoodlums who operate in Bolari area of Gombe, said they had renounced crime and ready to support law and order in Gombe State. The Commissioner of Police in the state,...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – In pursuance of his infrastructure expansion agenda, Governor Ademola Adeleke has launched road dualisation construction activities at Ede and Osogbo while documentation processes are almost completed on planned flyovers across the three senatorial districts. The roads which is a total of 11.17km...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Wednesday forwarded a list of commissioner-nominees to the State House of Assembly. The Permanent Secretary, Government House, Barrister Mustapha Ali Busuguma, in a statement made available to newsmen said, “Earlier today, on the instruction of His...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has pledged its commitment to support members of the House Committee on FCT Area Councils and Ancillary Matters in the discharge of their constitutional oversight functions. FCT Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, made this commitment...
I saw a ridiculous and defamatory propaganda from the usual quarters regarding the 2024 Appropriation Bil, particularly the provision of N21,221,703,748.00 under the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President. Although, people who spread such lies and propaganda deserve a perpetual life of ignominy, they are...
By BARBARA KALU, Port Harcourt – The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has warned Nigerians to beware of a fake social media account being used to deceive members of the public, claiming that Commission is registering people for an empowerment scheme in the nine states under its mandate. According...
National Chairman of Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch of NUPENG, Comrade Lucky Osesua and his Deputy, Comrade Dayyabu Yusuf Garga on behalf of their executives and members have again accused their parent body of coercing and luring members into signing an undertaking to pledge loyalty to an illegitimate faction...
The Secretary to the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, David Mike, said gunmen carted away the petitions of four parties challenging the electoral victory of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Usman Ododo, in the November 11, 2023 poll. This was according to the spokesperson for the...
The Chairman of the Senate Appropriation Committee, Senator Adeola Olamilekan, on Wednesday, directed the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, to appear before the committee in 24 hours. Olamilekan, who asked Kyari to appear in company of the Executive Secretary...