•Samuel Anyanwu Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja has declared Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the valid National secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Delivering Judgment, Justice Ekwo made an order of injunction, restraining the national leadership of the PDP from appointing any person as acting national secretary when...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio Major stakeholders in the polity, including the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, and Labour Party, LP, among others, were up in arms yesterday with the National Assembly for jerking up the 2024 budget by N1.2trillion. Recall that President Bola Tinubu had sent a ...
•National Assembly complex, Abuja The National Assembly yesterday passed the 2024 Appropriation Bill, increasing the sum to ₦28.7 trillion from the initial ₦27.5 trillion presented by President Bola Tinubu late November. The lawmakers in the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the bill after raising the budget size by N1.2 trillion,...
•NASS complex, Abuja The joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Appropriations are currently putting final touches to the compilation of the 2024 Appropriation bill in order to meet tomorrow Saturday, December 30, 2023 deadline for the passage of the budget for the 2024 fiscal year. Sources close to the workings of the joint [...
•National Assembly Complex The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has revealed that the National Assembly will pass the 2024 Appropriation Bill on December 30 to sustain the January-December budget cycle. He disclosed at a session with journalists in Iyin-Ekiti, Ekiti State on Monday, saying all federal lawmakers would have to cut short their ho...
•Adamu The former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu has announced his decision to quit partisan politics. According to Adamu, he noticed that he had started developing allergies for political activities. He made the disclosure over the weekend at the presentation and launching of a book titled, ‘Progress...
•National grid Nigerians have taken to social media to lament the collapse of the national electricity grid which resulted in a blackout in the country. They lamented the collapse of the national power grid, amid dollar exchange rates, diesel and fuel price increases in the nation, reports Nigerian Tribune. Lamenting for the frequent occurrenc...
•Electricity grid Nigeria’s electricity grid has once again thrown the country into darkness as the government operated system went down this afternoon. The system collapsed at about 1pm cutting down electricity from 4,032.80 megawatts at about 12pm to 43 megawatts 1pm and a meagre 303 megawatts at about 5:00 pm, reports The Guardian. Most Dis...
Protesters today stormed the National Assembly premises in Abuja, over the killing of many innocent citizens by a military drone on Sunday. The protesters, who besieged the National Assembly entrance gate for over two hours, demanded justice for victims of the bombing and asked the Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru, to either live up to [&h...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said the commencement of negotiation of the new National Minimum Wage in 2024 would be based on the prevailing cost of living in the country. Mr Joe Ajaero, NLC President, said this at the ongoing 19th edition of the NLC 2023 Harmattan School, organised by the Congress today in […]

