•US President Joe Biden The US House of Representatives voted yesterday to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, escalating Republicans’ battle with Democrats ahead of the 2024 election in a move Biden himself slammed as a “baseless” stunt. Republicans, seizing on Biden’s son Hunter’s controversial international dealings, ...
The World Bank has said the Tinubu-led federal government may still be paying for petrol subsidy as fuel prices in Nigeria are currently not cost-reflective. It said Nigerians should pay about N750 per litre as against the current price of N650 in some places. Petrol is already selling at around N690 in Kano and Sokoto, […]
•Speaker Obasa and Governor Sanwo-Olu The Lagos State government is considering banning beer parlours and other drinking joints from operating near or around the school environment in the state. The state is also still consulting with relevant stakeholders over the 65 years’ retirement age policy against the current 60 years for teachers in th...
•Ariwoola Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, yesterday, charged judges on faultless verdicts. Opening the 2023 yearly Judges’ Conference of the Federal High Court (FHC) of Nigeria in Abuja, he urged jurists on fairness and dispensation of justice, reports The Guardian. According to the CJN, it is the right of litigants and law...
•Fubara and Wike A fresh twist crept into the political tension in River States, yesterday, as no fewer than 10 bulldozers charged into the House of Assembly complex and reduced the imposing structures to rubbles. A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, said the decision to demolish and rebuild the c...
•Emefiele A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama has scheduled January 8 for judgment in the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele. Justice Olukayode Adeniyi chose the date after lawyers to the parties in the case made their final submissions. Justice ...
•Israeli army tanks near Gaza Strip Israel declared its determination yesterday to press on with its Gaza war “with or without international support” after it came under mounting pressure even from its key backer the United States. Now in its third month, the war was launched after the unprecedented October 7 attacks on Israel by […]...
•Captain Musa Nuhu The Presidency yesterday said the suspended Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Musa Shuaibu Nuhu, will be probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Earlier, President Bola Tinubu suspended Nuhu as the head of the NCAA, replacing him with Capt. Chris Najomo. Presidentia...
•Lalong and Tinubu The Minister of Labour, Simon Lalong has tendered his resignation from President Bola Tinubu’s government. He submitted his resignation letter at the federal executive council meeting held today. His resignation is for him to resume as the senator representing Plateau South Senatorial district. This followed reclaiming his m...
Three persons were feared killed as armed robbers attacked two commercial banks in Ikere-Ekiti, the headquarters of Ikere local government area of Ekiti State. It was gathered that the daredevil armed robbers numbering twenty stormed the town around 5:15pm and carried out the attacks on the two commercial banks simultaneously, reports The Nati...

