By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – In response to rising security concerns in educational institutions, the Nigeria Police Force has launched the Schools Protection Squad (SPS) in Plateau State, an initiative aimed at ensuring safer learning environments for students and teachers. Speaking at a two-day stakeholders’ forum in Jos, Inspector-General...
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The House of Representatives has directed Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Agency (ICRC) and Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to provide details of their budget performances to ascertain their compliance with extant financial regulatory laws. Chairman, House Committee on Finance, Rep. James Faleke, stated this in Abuja on Tuesday when the...
The Federal Capital Territory High Court, on Tuesday remanded the former governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello in Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of his bail application. Justice Maryann Anenih also adjourned the case until Jan. 29, Feb. 25, and Feb. 27, 202,5 for the continuation of the hearing....
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Tuesday named its state-of-the-art Command and Control Centre after President Bola Tinubu. The Comptroller General, NIS, Mrs Kemi Nandap, made the announcement during the inauguration of the centre in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the complex, which is the...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has adjourned till Dec. 12, to hear the application filed by the embattled ex-Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, challenging the jurisdiction of the lower court. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Emefiele had approached the Court of Appeal, challenging the jurisdiction...
A magistrate’s court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, on Tuesday, refused the bail application of human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, and ordered that he be remanded in the Correctional Centre. Farotimi is facing charges of defamation of Chief Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, in his book, titled,...
Ghana’s outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo, has congratulated President-elect John Dramani Mahama, on “his decisive victory” in the 7 December 2024 election and invited him to a meeting to initiate the transition process. “In the spirit of collaboration, the President has invited the President-elect for a meeting on Wednesday 11...
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday said the country must embrace technology, innovation, and knowledge-based opportunities to drive growth. The President said this while inaugurating the new Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) technology complex in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NIS complex comprises seven key components,...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo – Taraba State Governor, Kefas Agbu has appealed to students of Taraba State University (TSU), Jalingo to shelve their planned protest. In a statement released by the Special Adviser on Media and Digital Communication to the governor, Emmanuel Bello, stressed that sources had revealed that...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) have called on President Bola Tinubu to order immediate and unconditional release of journalists in detention. SERAP and NGE also called for the immediate and unconditional release of the human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi,...
The students of Taraba State University (TSU) Jalingo have suspended their planned peaceful demonstration against strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), giving the state government until Friday to resolve the crisis. The National Union of Taraba State Students (NUTASS) President, Aliyu Sulaiman on Tuesday, while...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Lagos State School Chess Championship, powered by NNPC-SNEPCo in partnership with Chess in Slums Africa (CiSA), led by founder Tunde Onakoya, took place on November 30, 2024. The event brought together 30 teams from secondary schools across Lagos and participants from the Chess...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In a landmark achievement, Borno State Government under the leadership of Governor Babagana Zulum has successfully reduced the number of out-of-school children from over 2.2 million to fewer than 700,000, representing a 70% reduction. Governor Zulum made this announcement during the inauguration of Government...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri– The Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development, in collaboration with various stakeholders, organized a one-day workshop to commemorate World Human Rights Day and raise awareness about gender-based violence. The event, held at the Women Development Center in Maiduguri, brought together participants from diverse backgrounds, including...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has called on the World Bank to assist in reconstructing bridges destroyed by recent flooding and dredging the silted Alau Dam. Zulum made the request during a courtesy visit by the World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Dr. Ndiame...
Justice Maryann Anenih o a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court on Tuesday struck out the bail application filed by former governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. Anenih struck out the application on the grounds that it was filed when the former governor was yet to be taken into...
Google, on Tuesday, unveiled the ‘2024 Year in Search’ for Nigeria with Bobrisky, Beta Edu, Shallipopi, and Ogechi lyrics leading the trends search. The Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Google West Africa, Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, said in a statement that the 2024 Year in Search offered a unique lens...
A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Osita Okechukwu, has told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to be thankful to God that its 16-year administration was not probed by the successive APC-led governments. Okechukwu stated this on Tuesday in Abuja, while reacting to a statement by PDP congratulating...
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has described the former Minister of Defence, retired Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, as one of the foremost architects of Nigeria’s stability. A statement issued on Tuesday by the spokesperson of the Vice-President, Stanley Nkwocha, said Shettima spoke at the 87th birthday celebration of Danjuma, held in Lagos....
The Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has strongly opposed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s contentious tax reform bill, which the National Assembly is currently considering. In a comprehensive nine-page memorandum obtained by Economic Confidential, RMAFC outlined a range of legal, constitutional, and technical objections to the proposed legislation....