The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has undertaken a decisive move in the fight against rising insecurity, crushing 639 impounded commercial motorcycles, commonly known as “Okada” in Abuja. Dr Abdulateef Bello, the Director of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services at FCTA, addressed journalists after the operation. The motor...
•Nnamdi Kanu The Supreme Court will tomorrow, Friday December 15, deliver judgment on the appeal seeking to compel the federal government to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. A five-member panel led by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun had in October fixed the date after counsel for both the [...
•Siminalayi Fubara The Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has signed the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N800bn into law. Fubara, who presented the bill yesterday, December 13, to a four-member House of Assembly led by Speaker Edison Ehie, was said to have signed the budget today at the Government House, Port Harcourt.
Less than 24 hours after sacking all heads of aviation agencies, the federal government has relieved all the directors of the agencies of their appointments. The Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development announced the sack of the directors in a statement signed by the Head of Press and Public Affairs, Odutayo Oluseyi. The directors were [...
•Justice Kazeem Alogba The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba, has advised judges not to die on the job, but retire if they can no longer do well on the bench. Alogba gave the advice at the public presentation of book written by the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Lawal […]
•Trade minister, Doris Anite The Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment has debunked a report that claimed that it allegedly allocated the sum of N1 billion for a foreign trip to Geneva, Switzerland in 2024. The Ministry’s spokesperson, Toluwalase Moyan, in a statement, refuted the report, saying it was an extreme misrepresentation of the...
•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...
•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 ...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has sacked the six Managing Directors and Directors-General of parastatals in the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development. This was disclosed in a statement today by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Ajuri Ngelale. The affected directors include the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Nigerian A...
•Labour leaders and Tinubu (center) The Organised Labour has rejected the planned privatization of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, as announced by the federal government, warning that among others, it would worsen the socio-economic conditions of Nigerians. President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, said the planned priva...

