•IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, has deployed three Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs) to oversee security arrangements for Saturday’s governoship election in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said this at a media briefing in Abuja. The DIG...
•Nigerian Senate As the public continues to frown at the enormous powers granted state Governors in matters relating to land, an appeal has gone to the National Assembly to as a matter of urgency; reconsider expunging the power given to state governors in assenting to title deeds before they become legal documents. Mr.Adedayo Adedoyin, a [&hel...
•Tunji Ojo The federal government has stepped up efforts at enhancing Passports processing. It unveiled e-Passport facilities at some designated Nigerian Embassies in Europe, reports The Nation. Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo inaugurated the facilities at the Nigerian Embassy in Rome yesterday. The minister emphasized the commitment of P...
•Osifo (l) and a brutalised Ajaero (r) The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, has said that his colleague in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, was not in Imo State on November 1, 2023 for politics but to fight for the rights of aggrieved workers in the state. Osifo, who […]
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of three new Executive Commissioners to serve in the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and the redeployment of one current Executive Commissioner, pending their confirmation by the Nigerian Senate. They are: (1) Mr. Bashir Indabawa — North West — Executive Commi...
The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned eleven students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) before Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel of the Federal High Court, Osogbo, Osun State for their alleged involvement in internet fraud. In a release signed by the head media and publicity EFCC, Dele Oye...
•Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga A South African minister said today she had a gun pointed at her head before being robbed and her bodyguards’ weapons stolen in what police called an “unprecedented incident.” Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga said she was unhurt but traumatised by the ordeal in the early hours of yesterday, reports AFP “I am [...
•AGF Oluwatoyin Madein The federal government has commenced the implementation of an automatic 40 per cent deduction of Internally Generated Revenues of Federal Universities and other partially funded institutions across the country. The auto-deduction policy of gross IGR is in line with the Finance Circular with reference number FMFBNP/OTHERS...
•A boat accident No fewer than four residents of Nasarawa State have lost their lives in a boat accident that occurred in the Awe Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the boat which was conveying Rice Farmers from Ubbe District in the Nasarawa Eggon LGA, had a tragic accident while crossing […]
•Street beggars Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly today discussed the idea of a law to curb street begging across the State. The law, if it comes into existence, would also penalise encouragement of street begging by residents. In this way, it would be an offence to give money to a street beggar. […]

