With inflation at 16 per cent, spike in food prices, housing construction and transportation costs are forcing many families to make difficult survival choices, including abandoning decent accommodation and resorting to unhealthy living conditions. The inflation report showed that restaurants and accommodation services contributed 2.06 percent...
•Police The Imo State Police Command, in synergy with other security agencies, has deployed watertight security to forestall any breakdown of law and order. The Command said it has uncovered following intelligence report, plans by certain groups to stage protests demanding the release of Nnamdi Kanu, who is standing trial for treasonable felon...
•Samuel Anyanwu In a dramatic fashion, management and staff of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Secretariat, yesterday shut their offices and staged a mass walkout in protest against Samuel Anyanwu’s attempt to forcibly reclaim his position as national secretary. The protest came after the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, appoin...
The Senate has passed through second reading a bill seeking to amend the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023, to require social media platforms to establish physical offices within the country. The bill, titled ‘ A Bill for an Act to Amend the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023, to Mandate the Establishment of Physical Offices within […]
Men of the Department of State Security, DSS, and Nigeria Police, in the early hours of today, stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly, sealing up the offices of the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, her deputy and clerk of the house. As of 10 am, armed security personnel have taken over the premises at Alausa, Ikeja, […]
•NLC President Joe Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) has described the raid on its office as a new low in operation of security operatives. It was earlier reported how the police raided headquarters of the Congress (NLC) over allegations that members of the organised labour sponsored the #EndBadGovernance protest. Some labour leaders who...
•Federal secretariat, Abuja deserted The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, today, witnessed a surge in vehicular movements on the fifth day of the nationwide protests, indicating a gradual return to normalcy. However, government offices at the Federal Secretariat Complex remained deserted, with only a few staff members reporting for duty, repo...
Telecoms giant, MTN, has shut all its stores and service centres across Nigeria. It was gathered that the decision was due to the vandalisation of the company’s offices by aggrieved customers whose lines were disconnected in line with the government’s NIN-SIM linkage policy, reports The Nation. Yesterday, a group of angry customers had pulled ...
The Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Tanko Sununu, has launched the construction of seven new state offices for the National Examinations Council (NECO) to enhance its operational activities. The groundbreaking ceremony for the permanent NECO state office in Lafia, Nasarawa state, along with the symbolic inauguration of offices in other ...
•Used plastic containers at a dumpsite The federal government yesterday banned single-use plastics in ministries, departments and agencies of government. The Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Salako, stated when he briefed reporters at the Presidential Villa after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by President Bola Tin...

