The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) for the third time this week, has been forced to step down hearing in the petition filed by Mr Peter Obi and the Labour Party due to poor scheduling of documents. Obi and his party are before the election petition court challenging the...
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By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has debunked media reports alleging that the apex bank has devalued the country’s currency, Naira to N600 per US dollar at the parallel market. Ag. Director, Corporate Communications, Dr. Isa AbdulMumin, debunked the report in a statement issued...
President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) on Wednesday objected to the admission of some documents sought to be tendered in evidence by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Alhaji Abubakar Atiku. At the resumed hearing of the...
Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, on Wednesday shot dead two people and also abducted two others at a farm in Awo Village in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun. One of the deceased was an area commander of Ogun security outfit, So-Safe Corps, identified as Saheed Ogunrinde. The...
By AUSTINE TSENZUGHU, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Deputy Governor, Mohammed Auwal Jatau on Wednesday said the state government is working to regulate transport activities thereby tackling insecurity being experienced in the sector. Mohammed Jatau made this known while receiving members and officials of the state branch of the...
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), says it enrolled two million indigent Nigerians into Basic Minimum Package of Health Services through the State Health Insurance Agencies (SHIAs). Dr Kurfi Abubakar, Head, Policy, Planning and International Collaboration, Division, said this on Tuesday at a two-day Joint Learning Agenda (JLA), on...
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has said that increase in pump price of fuel would further accelerate inflation, which would distort and destabilise economic activities. Its Director General, Mr Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, made the assertion in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos. Oyerinde said also, that the increase would...
The Niger Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has arrested three suspected ‘black marketers’ for fabricating huge extra tanks in their vehicles. The Public Relations officer of the corps, DSC Nasire Abdullahi, stated this while addressing news on the arrest in Minna on Wednesday. He...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigator, Mr Denis Kasari, on Wednesday testified against one Mamman Ali before an Ikeja Special Offences Court in a N2.2 billion fuel subsidy scam trial. Ali, son of former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) retired Gen. Ahmadu Ali, is standing trail...
Thirty-Eight-year-old, Mr Sylvester Ezeokenwa emerged as the new National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) on Wednesday in Awka. Ezeokenwa was elected at the party’s national convention to succeed Chief Victor Oye. Delegates from the 36 states of the federation and the FCT attended the convention which saw 31...
Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has emerged the new Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) for the next four years. He succeeds outgone Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna. Uzodinma emerged at a joint meeting of immediate past governors, reelected governors and newly-elected governors held on Wednesday in Abuja,...
A police officer, Drambi Vandi, who allegedly shot and killed a Lagos-based lawyer on Christmas Day has closed his defence, before a Lagos High Court, Tafawa Balewa Square. Vandi, is standing trial on a count charge of shooting and killing a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, on Dec. 25,...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – United Nigeria Airlines has confirmed that one of its aircrafts skidded off the runway at the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 in Lagos . No fewer than 50 passengers were on board in the aircraft which flew in from the airport in Abakaliki on Wednesday. Head,...
The Lagos All Progressives Congress (APC) has refuted claims by People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s achievements in his first term in office was characterised by an increase in poverty and unemployment. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that PDP’s Publicity Secretary , Alhaji Hakeem Amode, in...
Nigeria’s under-20 women’s football team, the Falconets, will face their Ghanaian counterparts in the final match of the first edition of the WAFU B Under-20 Women’s Tournament on Saturday. Nigeria defeated Republic of Benin 3-0 in the semi-finals of the event on Wednesday to set up a clash against...
Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the APC National Chairman has charged governors elected on the party’s platform to adhere to its manifesto. He gave the charge on Wednesday in Abuja, when the party’s governors under the agies of Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) met with the National Working Committee (NWC). “For us,...
The North East Progressives Coalition, a group of professionals from diverse fields, advocating for good governance, has endorsed Alhaji Tajudeen Abbas for the speakership position of the 10th National Assembly. During the group’s meeting on Wednesday in Gombe, the State Co-ordinator of the group, Mr. Khalid Abbas, said by...
Clinical and academic activities have been grounded at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, as the nationwide strike embarked by the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) enters its sixth day. A check by the ews Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the hospital reveals that the outpatient departments, cash...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government to immediately instruct the Nigerian Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) to withdraw the just released pricing template to allow free flow of discussions by the parties. Mr Joe Ajaero, the NLC President, made the call in a statement signed by...