Network Against Corruption and Trafficking Initiative (NACAT) has called on the two anti-graft agencies to investigate the former governor of Delta, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, over alleged misappropriation of state funds. The Executive Director Investigation of the anti-corruption group, Tega Oghenedoro, made the call at a news conference on...
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Trial of Mamman Ali, son of a former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Ali, for alleged N2.2 billion oil subsidy fraud suffered a setback on Wednesday due to absence of lead prosecution counsel. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ali is...
The Benin Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Wednesday, decried the continued infrastructural decay, poor funding and proliferation of universities in Nigeria. Prof. Monday Igbafen, Zonal Coordinator, Benin Zone of ASUU, expressed the union’s stand at a news conference organised over the unresolved issues...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) of the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has flagged off the distribution of fabrics in commercial quantities to women in politics across the 36 states of the federation, including the FCT. Flagging...
The Senate has passed a resolution urging the Federal Government to allocate funds to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), to enable it to restore power to the Jos-Gombe 330KV transmission line. The followed the adoption of a motion by Sen. Haruna Manu (PDP-Taraba) and co- sponsored by...
The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu on Wednesday, gave out local fabric materials to the Forum of 36 State Women Leaders of the All Progressives Congress and the Federal Capital Territory. Tinubu said it was part of the Renewed Hope Initiative for their support. The First Lady, who...
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the abandoned erosion protection contract in Kolokuma/Opokuma in Bayelsa, awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Abonsizibe Oboku(PDP-Bayelsa) during plenary in Abuja on Wednesday. Presenting the motion, Oboku said that...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Assistant Corps Marshal Mohammed Shehu as the Corps Marshal/Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). Director, Information and Public Relations, office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Segun Imohiosen,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Yola – Gunmen suspected to be Kidnappers have abducted a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Oliver Buba. Fr. Buba was abducted on Tuesday in his residence in Numan Local Government Area of the Adamawa State. Confirming the incident, the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Most Rev....
Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. George Akume, has said President Bola Tinubu led administration is supportive of autonomy for Local Government Areas in the country. Akume said this during the Ministerial Press Briefing on Wednesday in Abuja to mark Tinubu’s one year anniversary in office....
Former Maj.-Gen. Umaru Mohammed has dragged the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Taoreed Lagbaja, and the Nigerian Army before the Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged refusal to release a copy of the certified true copy (CTC) of the judgment of the Special Court Martial. Mohammed told...
Executive Director/CEO of National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), Dr Shaibu Husseini, has said the Federal Government has approved the prohibition of money rituals and glamourising of vices in Nigerian films. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Husseini disclosed this at a National Stakeholders Engagement...
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, says the first anniversary of President Bola Tinubu led administration would be low-key. Idris made this known at the Ministerial Press Briefing on Wednesday in Abuja. According to him, the move is in line with Tinubu’s desire to...
The arraignment of Binance Holdings Limited and its executive, Tigran Gambaryan, by Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), on Wednesday, suffered a setback at a Federal High Court, Abuja. The matter, which was scheduled for arraignment before Justice Emeka Nwite, could not proceed due to the absence of Gambaryan...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has given directive for the immediate commencement of work at the proposed 1000 units housing estate under the Renewed Hope Housing Project in the state. Governor Ododo disclosed this while playing host to the Management of the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – As the world commemorates the 2024 World Family Doctors’ Day, the FCT Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmou , has called on Nigerians to adopt a healthy living condition. The Minister also urged Nigerians to collectively invest more in afforestation and discourage deforestation,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Police Command has confirmed the killing of a Superintendent of Police (SP) Pius Sunday, who was the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Marte Divisional Headquarters, Marte. SP Sunday was killed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists while responding to a distress call on...
The Kremlin on Wednesday criticised European Union plans to use income from frozen Russian assets to provide military aid to Ukraine as “expropriation.” EU ministers earlier on Tuesday gave final approval to use the proceeds of Russian assets frozen in the EU to help Ukraine. The agreement concerns...
A FCT High Court in Zuba, on Wednesday dismissed the application filed by the Medical Director, Alliance Hospital, Dr Christopher Otabor asking for variation of his bail conditions. Justice Kezziah Ogbonnaya held that granting the application would not be in the interest of justice adding that Otabor’s wife...
U.S. President Joe Biden has accused his predecessor and likely election opponent Donald Trump of using Nazi rhetoric following the publication of a video referencing a “unified Reich.’’ Trump is using “Hitler’s language’’. That’s not America’s, Biden said in a campaign video released. In the short clip, the...