•Keyamo and KWAM1 The federal government says it will engage Fuji maestro Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, better known as KWAM 1, as an ambassador for airport security protocol after he attempted to block a moving aircraft at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Aviation regulator, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), had imposed an ...
The federal government has ordered the withdrawal of the case against Comfort Emmanson on an Ibom Air flight on August 10, 2025. The development came after Emmanson was remanded in prison following the incident, as earlier reported by The Frontier. Civil societies, the public, including the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), have condemned Ibom A...
•Sambo Dasuki A Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed September 24, 25 and 26 for the federal government to conclude the 10-year-old prosecution of a former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki, for alleged unlawful possession of firearms and money laundering charges. Justice Peter Lifu gave the directive today after he granted the...
The federal government has begun the process of appointing five new permanent secretaries, three of whom will head newly established ministries. According to a memo from the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, the positions are open to qualified directors in the Federal Civil Service. The memo, signed by the […]
•Aviation minister, Festus Keyamo and MMIA Lagos A coalition of civil society organisations has called on the federal government to immediately shelve its planned N712 billion reconstruction of Terminal One of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The organisations described the expenditure as excessive, misplaced and insen...
•Nigerian workers The federal government has paid the second tranche of the outstanding N35,000 wage award arrears to federal government workers. The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) made this known today in a statement issued in Abuja. Bawa Mokwa, the Director of Press and Public Relations, in a statement, noted that ...
•Flood The federal government has issued a fresh flood alert for 198 local government areas across 32 states and the FCT. Its agency, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), warned of high to very high flood risks between August 7 and 21, reports Daily Independent. The alert, with reference No: 32-25-003-06, was issued by NIHSA [&hel...
•Health workers protest Unless the federal government honours critical promises to the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) by the end of August, the health sector faces meltdown, with the union drawing a hard line and threatening to strike. The union is demanding the immediate fulfilment of longstanding agreements — especially the payment ...
•Olufemi Thomas The federal government has filed a notice of appeal to challenge the July 24 judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos, which freed a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Olufemi Thomas, on allegations of money laundering. Our correspondent obtained the 28-page notice of appeal, filed befor...
•Abubakar Idris a.k.a. Dadiyata Six years after the mysterious abduction of Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Dadiyata, in Kaduna State, the family and Amnesty International have faulted the federal government for what they described as its “deafening silence and shameful inaction” in resolving the activist’s disappearance seven years later. ...
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