•Fred Itua Edo State Governor-Elect Monday Okpebholo has approved the appointment of Fred Itua as Chief Press Secretary ahead of tomorrow’s assumption of office. Itua’s appointment which will take effect on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, marks the first official designation of the incoming administration. Itua, a distinguished journalist wi...
•Susie Wiles and Donald Trump US President-elect Donald Trump yesterday made his first cabinet appointment after his decisive election win, while signalling his intent to ditch the outgoing administration’s policies by talking to Vladimir Putin. Trump’s campaign manager Susie Wiles will serve as his White House chief of staff, the first woman ...
•Protesting UNIZIK students The crisis at Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State, has escalated, with members of the institution’s Senate calling for the dissolution of the newly appointed governing council. During a Senate meeting yesterday, protests erupted as members held placards with various messages, urging President Bol...
•Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun and the Administrator of the National Judicial Institute (NJI), Justice Salisu Abdullahi have advised judicial officers to desist from seeing their appointment as an opportunity for self-enrichment. Justices Kekere-Ekun and Abdullahi said, inste...
•Super Eagles Coach Augustine Eguavoen The appointment of Bruno Labbadia as the head coach of the Super Eagles has been botched by stringent regulations of German tax authorities, the Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed. The NFF said that in the event, Technical Director of Nigeria Football Federation, Coach Augustine Eguavoen will now t...
•Iran’s Vice-President Mohammed Javad Zarif Iran’s Vice-President Mohammed Javad Zarif has resigned from President Massud Pezeshkian’s cabinet just 11 days after taking office. Zarif announced his resignation on X, stating, “I am not satisfied with my work and regret that I have not been able to fulfil expectations.” The resignation is attribu...
•Edward Onoja Natives and residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have strongly condemned the appointment of Chief Edward Onoja, former Deputy Governor of Kogi State, as the FCT Commissioner for the Public Complaints Commission, calling for an immediate reversal. Danjuma Tanko Dara, a major stakeholder and elder statesman in the FCT, ...
•Attahiru Jega President Bola Tinubu has offered a fresh appointment to former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega. The appointment was announced when Tinubu inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Implementation of Livestock Reforms at the presidential villa in Abuja, yesterday He named ...
•Ganduje and son Umar Engr. Umar Abdullahi Umar, Executive Director, Technical Services of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), is the son of ex-Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). President Bola Tinubu had appointed Umar into the new REA management team following the indefinite suspens...
•Urum Kalu-Eke One of the five nominees by President Bola Tinubu for appointment as members of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Urum Kalu-Eke, has declined the appointment. This is even as the Senate confirmed four other nominees for appointment as members of the Board of Directors of the CBN, […]

