A witness of the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Kolawole Oluwadare on Monday admitted at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory that he used some libelous words like “unlawful, invasion, intimidation and harrassment”in media publications to falsely depict the Department of the State Service (DSS) as...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja
The success of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, (NSITF), and that of its Employees’ Compensation Scheme (ECS), depends a lot on collaboration with financial institutions, labour unions, governments, and other stakeholders. The Managing Director and Chief Executive of NSITF, Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye made this known on Friday in...
Discussions and engagements held last week between a high-level Nigerian delegation and US officials will help strengthen security partnerships between the two countries and open new avenues for cooperation to protect Nigerian citizens. The delegation, led by the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, met with senior officials across the...
Bauchi State Government has ordered an immediate shutdown of all public and private schools amid escalating insecurity across the northern region, becoming the latest state to take such drastic action to protect students. The directive, announced late Sunday by Jalaludeen Usman, spokesperson for the state’s Ministry of Education, affects...
New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to stop “sitting on the fence,” insisting that the electoral body must immediately disown what it described as illegal congresses allegedly planned by the Kwankwasiyya faction led by Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. In a statement on...
Nigerian Army troops operating under Operation FANSAN YAMMA (OPFY) have intensified search-and-rescue operations for abducted schoolchildren in Niger, Kebbi and Zamfara states. A credible source at Army Headquarters informed the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that troops have in the last 24 hours, neutralised terrorists and destroyed their hideouts...
Federal High Court in Abuja has again put the brakes on the cybercrime trial of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as proceedings scheduled for Monday were shelved due to the absence of the presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Umar. The case has now been shifted to February 4, 2025, for the formal...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has arrived in Luanda, Angola, to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 7th AU–EU Summit. On arrival, he was briefed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. @YusufTuggar; Amb. Aminu Nasir (Charge d’Affaires, Addis Ababa); Amb. Faith Ekwekwo (Charge d’Affaires, Brussels); Amb. Maxy Ogbede (Charge...
By CLEMENT OMANIBE, Abuja Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, has charged senior officers to strengthen and demonstrate institutional discipline with a view to ensuring operational effectiveness in the Service. The CGC gave the charge during the just-concluded 2025 edition of the Comptroller-General of Customs’ Conference...
The Society of Nigerian Broadcasters (SNB) has conferred the Award of Excellence on Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum , for his contribution to the media industry. President of the Society, Professor Umaru A. Pate, presented the award at the 2nd annual national conference in Kano, stating that...
The sentencing of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Nigeria on charges related to terrorism, incitement, and organised violence, has elicited mixed domestic and international reactions. The court presided by Justice James Omotosho found Kanu guilty...
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has confirmed investigations of a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company, John Crane Middle East FZE. This followed an appeal for intervention from an indigenous company, Cona Engineering and Technical Services. The investigation is to ascertain claims of Nigeria’s Cona Engineering that...
The personal coordination by President Bola Tinubu of the strategies presented by heads of security agencies led to the successful rescue of all the 38 kidnapped church worshippers of Eruku, Ifelodun LGA, Kwara State by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) at about 3.20 pm on Sunday,...
Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has announced an investigation into reports that military personnel were pulled back shortly before terrorists abducted 25 students from Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State. The abduction occurred on November 17 in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area, following the killing of the school’s Vice...
Kaduna State Government has dismissed as false and politically motivated the allegation by former Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai that the administration of Governor Uba Sani paid ₦1 billion to bandits. The claim, made by El-Rufai during a Channels Television interview, was described by the government as baseless and deliberately...
Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has debunked a statement credited to the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, that the Nigerian government has handed a private firm, Xpress Payments, monopoly power over revenue collections under the Treasury Single Account (TSA). Reacting to Atiku’s remarks, Technical Assistant on Broadcast Media to...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has delivered a message of relief to Nigerians, confirming the rescue of all 38 worshippers of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) abducted in Eruku, Kwara State, following a violent attack by armed men suspected to be bandits. In a statement signed on Sunday by the President,...
After many days of hard work by security forces and government representatives, Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (CON), has announced the freedom of 38 persons who were recently abducted in an attack on Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Eruku, Ekiti LGA of the state. Governor AbdulRazaq in a statement by...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a scathing attack on President Bola Tinubu led administration following a series of mass kidnappings in Northern Nigeria, accusing the Federal Government of “surrendering to terrorists” through what it describes as weak, uncoordinated, and reactionary security measures. In a statement signed by its...