The Bauchi State government, through the Ministry of Education, has announced the closure of all schools in the state in preparation for the 2025 Ramadan fast for five weeks. The announcement is contained in the approved school calendar for the 2024-2025 academic session in the state. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in…
Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the senator representing Kogi Central, has accused the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio of sexual harassment on a live television programme. Natasha and Akpabio have been in the news since last week following her refusal to move to a new seat the Senate President allocated to her. Telling her side of…
Days after dumping the Labour Party (LP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Valentine Ozigbo hopes Peter Obi would join him in the ruling party. Obi was the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, his first presidential contest that challenged the structure and popularity of the ruling and the main…
Notable personalities including Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, former Ogun State governor, Senator Gbenga Daniel; the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams; former deputy governor of Lagos State, Senator Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele and others, yesterday, blamed leaders and citizens for the problems confronting Nigeria. They spoke at the Freedom On-line’s 6th annual lecture, titled: ‘Nigeria’s…
His Royal Majesty, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi (Kusenla III), has debunked the misinformation going round in a section of the media, over the purported withdrawal of security details attached to him. In a statement Friday signed by Otunba Temitope Oyefeso, the popular Monarch’s Special Assistant on Public Affairs, he stated that contrary to the peddled…
Reinforcing its reputation as an institution committed to empowering SMEs, Wema Bank, Nigeria’s foremost innovative bank and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, has undertaken an initiative to empower 800,000 Nigerian Businesses; following its MOU Signing with Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) on February 25th, 2025 in Lagos, Nigeria…
President Bola Tinubu, yesterday in Abuja, told the Airtel delegation led by its Chairman, Sunil Bharti Mittal, that his administration is prepared to learn and not ashamed of copying what is working in other climes. The President also said the telecoms sector’s regulatory framework and operations would be reviewed to reflect global best practices, with…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has called on Nigerians to take a stand against corruption by refusing to defend individuals accused of looting public funds. Speaking at the 38th Anti-Corruption Situation Room (ACSR) Conference organized by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) on…
Former Senate Minority Leader and Senator representing Abia Central District (APGA), Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has urged former Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, to write his own book and document his firsthand account of the 1966 coup, which has been misleadingly labeled an “Igbo coup.” Abaribe issued this challenge on Thursday while addressing a…
Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has suspended the acting Head of Service and Permanent Secretary, Establishment, Salisu Mustapha, with immediate effect over alleged salary deductions and non-payment of some civil servants’ salaries. In a statement issued by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature, the governor directed Mustapha to step aside to allow for an unhindered…
