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Nigerian government, on Tuesday, applied to withdraw the charge of illegal possession of firearms pending against the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mohammed Bakodo Abubakar, who approached the federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos with an oral application […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, have lampooned the Presidency for rejecting the European Union (EU) final report on the February 25 presidential election. The EU Observer Mission in its report faulted the polls owing to “enduring systemic weaknesses.” The Presidential […]
Continue ReadingHuman Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has issued a 72-hour ultimatum to Nigerian government, for the immediate arrest of ex-Niger Delta agitator, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo. The group threatened that should the Nigerian government refuse to arrest Asari-Dokubu as it demanded, it would mobilise its members to embark on a nationwide protest across all 36 states […]
Continue ReadingTransmission Company of Nigeria and the Market Operator have begun a massive disconnection of debtor electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) from the national grid over debt. This came after notices of disconnection from the grid served on some of the Discos by the Market Operator. Punch reported that the MO, a division of the Transmission Company of […]
Continue ReadingPeter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, has expressed displeasure over the Nigerian government’s delay to evacuate Nigerians trapped in the war-torn Sudan. While other countries including the US and the UK have been evacuating their nationals from Sudan as the war in the African country escalates, the Nigerian […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has denied news making the rounds that it bailed out the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi of detention ordeal in London, United Kingdom last week. Reports have it that Obi was briefly detained at Hearthrow Airport in London over a mistaken identity during his trip to celebrate Easter in […]
Continue ReadingSpokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council (PCC), Daniel Bwala has charged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi to sue President Muhammadu Buhari-led government over his detention in the United Kingdom (UK). The UK Immigration, had a few days ago, detained Obi at Heathrow Airport in London over a case of duplicated identity. Mr. […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has spoken about the Naira swap policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and its effect. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Sunday, February 19, Ezekwesili alleged that the Naira swap policy is targeted at criminals the federal government knows. The former minister stated […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Government has collaborated with the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to distribute cash grants to poor and vulnerable residents of the state. The state Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mrs. Yetunde Arobieke, at the event held at the Police College in […]
Continue ReadingThe Buhari-led administration has been dragged to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja by Kudirat Abiola’s children over the unlawful killing of their mother. Kudirat’s children, Khafila Abiola, Moriam Abiola, and Hadi Abiola said in the lawsuit that “the failure or refusal of the Defendant to protect the life of Late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola in the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, has ordered the Nigerian government to pay the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N500 million as damages following his illegal abduction and human rights abuse from Kenya. The Court presided over by Justice E. N Anyadike, […]
Continue ReadingHaving formally registered the unions, the Nigerian government has hence presented certificates of the registration to two more academic unions of universities in Nigeria. The two new unions are the Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA), and the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA). “These associations will exist side by side with ASUU […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has suspended its proposed excise duty on telecommunication services. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy in Nigeria, Isa Pantami announced this on Monday during the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Committee on Excise Duty for the Digital Economy Sector in Abuja. Pantami said that the telecommunications sector is already overwhelmed by excessive […]
Continue ReadingAn application filed by the Nigerian government seeking to extradite suspended deputy commissioner of police (DCP), Abba Kyari to the United States to face criminal charges, has been dismissed by a federal high court sitting in Abuja. Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo, on Monday August 29, held that the extradition request filed by the Attorney General […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has questioned the Nigerian Government on how the farmer-herder crisis is being handled. In a pre-recorded interview with Channels Television which was aired on Monday August 22, the literary icon wondered why the government was yet to ban the cattle group, Miyetti Allah, while it had proscribed the […]
Continue ReadingData obtained from the National Universities Commission (NUC) has revealed that a total of 33 private universities were approved by the administration of the President, Muhammadu Buhari within 16 months. The period under review is January 2021 and April 2022. According to Punch, while 21 of the private universities were approved in 2021; 12 were […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government-funded Phase 1 of the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), slated to commence in August appears to have been mired in uncertainty and had been put on hold as a result of allegations of fraud by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) against some of the Meter Asset Providers (MAPs). One source, who pleaded […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has banned the sale and consumption of bush meat in the country in a bid to curb the spread of monkepox disease. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr Mohammad Abubakar on Tuesday May 31, directed hunters and dealers of bush meat in the country to stop the business. Abubakar also urged Nigerians to avoid […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, presided over by Justice Muhammed Sani, on Monday May 23, 2022 convicted a certain fraudster, Ajewole Oluseyi David, based in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, for offences bordering on internet fraud. The judge also ordered the forfeiture of a duplex situated at Lekki, Eti-Osa Local Government Area […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has amended the charges against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. One of the counsels for the IPOB leader who was said to have made this known also said the Nigerian government listed some lawyers representing Nnamdi Kanu as accomplices of the defendant. Among the lawyers said to […]
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