•UK Prime Minister Sunak The UK yesterday joined the United States and Canada in announcing a fresh set of sanctions against Iran’s drone and missile industries after its recent attack on Israel. Tehran launched its first direct military assault on Israeli territory nearly two weeks after an April 1 air strike — widely blamed on […]...
•Embattled former CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, for approving the printing of N684.5m notes at the rate of N18.96bn. In the fresh 4 count charge filed against him, the EFCC alleged that Emefiele disobeyed...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Scores of persons, mainly women have been killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Tilengpat village of Pushit District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. Sources emanating from the community indicated that fourteen females and one male were brutally murdered during the attack last night, with houses and proper...
•Bandits At least 23 people have been reportedly killed by bandits, who attacked the Anguwar Danko community near Dogon Dawa district in the Eastern part of Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Birnin Gwari shares a border with Katsina State. Although the police authorities in Kaduna are yet to confirm the incident at […]...
Organised labour, comprising the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, has demanded N615,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the country. An impeccable source, who is an executive of organised labour, who did not want to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, told our correspondent that […]
•Atiku and Tinubu Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has tackled the Minister of Works, David Umahi, for failing to immediately disclose the full cost of the Lagos-Calabar highway project. Atiku, who was the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election, had yesterday a...
•Emefiele The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a fresh 26-count charge bordering on abuse of office & corruption against the immediate former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele will be arraigned before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on Monday, April 8 on co...
An aggrieved governorship aspirant in Edo State, Hon. Anamero Sunday Dekeri, has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, praying it to declare him the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the impending election in the state. Dekeri, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Henry Akunebu, SAN, equally wrote the [&h...
•Gunmen Once again, tragedy has struck Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State, with reports indicating that at least 16 individuals have lost their lives. Suspected bandits, armed and dangerous, launched a brutal assault on several communities within the local government area last night, instilling fear and chaos, reports Nigerian Trib...
•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...