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…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the proposed education loan scheme will keep students in permanent debt. According to a statement on Thursday after its National Executive Council meeting at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, ASUU said it was surprised by the reports it received on the failed promises of…
The crisis rocking the leadership of the Labour Party took a deeper dimension on Wednesday when the National Working Committee of the party slammed a six-month suspension on its National Treasurer, Oluchi Opara. The suspension was officially announced at a media parley held at the party secretariat in Abuja. Opara had on Monday challenged the…
The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has resolved to sanction Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) of government over violations of the Treasury Single Account (TSA). Rep. Bamidele Salam, Chairman of the Committee, said this at the resumed hearing of the committee in Abuja. The Committee also summoned the Governor of Central Bank of…
The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, has assured members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) that no student will be left out of the Students’ Loan Funds policy. Gbajabiamila gave this assurance when he received in his office a delegation of NANS led by its president, Lucky Emonefe, on Wednesday….
The Borno government says it has cleared 500 suspects of involvement in terrorism and released from the Army detention facility at Giwa Barracks, Maiduguri. The Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo, made this in Maiduguri while responding to a leader of some aggrieved women in Borno, Hajja Gana, who alleged that some of their innocent…
