•The ongoing NEC meeting of PDP The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party has queried the continued stay in office of the party’s acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, and National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu. Recently, many party members have raised concerns about the ongoing tenure of Damagum and Anywanwu in their respective posi...
A lecturer with the University of Maiduguri, Department of Physical and Health Education Abdulkadir Kamar has been found dead in his office at the university. The University’s Director, of Radio and Public Relations, Danjuma Gambo, confirmed the unfortunate incident in a late press release yesterday. Gambo noted that the police and other secur...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives today, Wednesday, March 20, passed into law an act to prescribe the salaries, allowances, and fringe benefits of judicial office holders in the country which provides a total monthly package of N5,385,047.26 for the Chief Justice of Nigeria. Under the bill which was submitted to the House ...
•Protesters at EFCC office in Ilorin today Members of the Kwara State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), today, stormed the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Ilorin, the state capital, to protest the continued detention of former Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed. The placard-carrying protesters chanted song...
•NIN SIM Telecommunication subscribers as well as students applying for the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) examinations yesterday besieged the Alausa, Ikeja enrolment centre of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). They were at the commission’s office in their thousands ...
At least 1,500 members of staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria will on Friday resume at its Lagos office following their redeployment from the headquarters, we learned. A source at the apex bank told our correspondent exclusively that the plan, though heavily criticised, was still in motion, and affected staffers would be resuming on […...
•EFCC operatives Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have besieged the Head office of the Dangote Group of Companies in Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the search, which commenced at the company’s head office in Lagos around 3 p.m. today, is still ongoing as of the time of filing this report, reports [&helli...
Death is inevitable! There is no doubt that the outgoing year, 2023, has proved to be a lethal year as it has claimed the lives of many Nigerians, including some prominent politicians and influential personalities. The news of the demise of Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has evoked the memory of governors who died as […]
•Anthony Joshua (R) and Otto Wallin Former world champions Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker re-established their heavyweight title credentials with victories on the same Riyadh bill yesterday. British boxer Joshua produced one of his best performances of recent times by stopping Sweden’s Otto Wallin, who was pulled out by his corner after the ...
•Senate chamber. The Senate Committee on Labour today said that there’s a need for reorientation in the budget office, as the situation is not in tandem with the President Bola Tinubu administration. The committee raised this observation when receiving officials from the Ministry of Labour and Productivity and agencies for the defence of their...