A frontline human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, has said President Bola Tinubu, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar; and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi should be in prison. Adeyanju said Tinubu and other presidential candidates failed Nigerians, hence the suffering in the country. Addressing a protest in Abuja, the constitutional lawyer decried…
The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has warned camp officials to avoid over-socialization with members of the scheme. The coordinator of the scheme in Katsina State, Hajiya Aisha Mohammed, gave the charge while addressing officials in preparation of the three-week orientation course billed to hold between February 15 and March 6 2024. Mohammed said the…
President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday depart Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to participate in the 37th ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) heads of state and government. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday night. According to him,…
The only policy that the university administration developed was to control the construction of religious spaces on campus. Prof. Florence Obi, Vice Chancellor, University of Calabar (Unical), says the university did not ban worship centres within its campus. At a gathering hosted by the Chapel of Redemption on the University of Chicago campus, Obi made…
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Pgun State has announced a N5 billon palliatives in all sectors of the state economy. The governor who spoke at a press briefing in Abeokuta said that the palliative was meant to cushion the socio-economic hardship experienced by residents of the state. Abiodun noted that food palliatives for about 300,000 vulnerable households across…
Northern traditional rulers and the Nigerian Bar Association on Wednesday decried the hardship in the country precipitated by the fuel subsidy removal which had resulted in higher transport costs and food inflation. The traditional rulers and the NBA asked the Federal Government to quickly address the situation just as President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday…
Lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Independent People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has dragged the President-General of Oraifite Improvement Union, in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State, Mr Vincent Dike, to a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja claiming N50 billion damages for defamation. In the suit, number CV/1224/24, sighted by South-East…
Gov. Godwin Obaseki should take the fallout if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) does not field a candidate in the next Edo gubernatorial election, according to Mr. Hilary Otsu, Secretary of the PDP’s Edo Chapter. In an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday, Otsu stated that the party’s National Working…
The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has resolved to sanction Ministries, Departments, and Agencies of government over violation of the Treasury Single Account. The chairman of the committee, Bamidele Salam, said this at the resumed hearing of the committee in Abuja on Wednesday. The committee also summoned the Governor of the Central Bank of…
According to Femi Gbajabiamila, the President’s Chief of Staff, the eagerly expected student loan program might begin in two or three weeks. When a group from the National Association of Nigerian Students, or NANS, visited Gbajabiamila in the State House in Abuja, they were led by NANS President Lucky Emonefe. He urged the Nigerian students…
