The Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal in Abuja, has ordered that its interim order, restraining MultiChoice Nigeria Limited from increasing the DSTV tariff, be pasted at the firm’s corporate headquarters, or any known address of the branches across Nigeria. The chairman of the tribunal, Saratu Shafii, who made the order dated April ...
•Document Management System (DMS) The federal government has ordered the Computer Professionals (Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), to crackdown on all individuals and corporate organisations practicing Information and Technology in Nigeria without due registration with CPN. Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu who gave the dir...
•Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf Kano State Deputy Governor Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo has directed all the 44 Local Government Areas (LGAs) Caretaker Committee Chairmen to reside or relocate to their designated LGAs. Gwarzo issued the directive while receiving defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the New Nigerian Peoples Party (...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre owners to arrest any parent, who is found near any of their facilities during the 2024 UTME exercise. A statement signed by Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Spokesman explained that the directive was issued at the final briefing of the Computer-Based T...
•Emefiele The Ikeja High Court in Lagos State has ordered the remand of a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He is to be remanded till the next adjourned date, Thursday, April 11 when the court will give its […]
•IGP Egbetokun The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun, today authorised the promotion of 10,581 junior officers of the Inspectorate Cadre, and the Rank and File. The Deputy Inspector-General of Police overseeing the Department of Finance and Administration (DIG DFA) has been tasked with coordinating efforts with the Commissione...
Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Alonyenu Iduh has ordered a discreet probe of circumstances surrounding the death of a 14-year-old girl at a popular Yenagoa hotel on Easter Sunday. According to investigations, the police attention was drawn to the incident by the management of the hotel located along Isaac Boro Expressway, Yenagoa, repor...
The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Gashua in Yobe State Maimuna Waziri has directed the closure of academic activities in the school following a fire incident that ripped through a female hostel, killing one. A statement from the school’s registrar Abubakar Mamudo quoted the vice-chancellor as asking all students to vacate the camp...
The ongoing conflict between the Nigeria Labour Congress and the leadership of the Labour Party escalated today, as the labour union instructed its state councils and political commission to picket Labour Party secretariats across the country. This was contained in a letter obtained by this paper today and signed by the chairperson of the NLC ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Binance Holdings Limited to provide the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with comprehensive information on all persons from Nigeria trading on its platform. The court handed down the order in an ex-parte motion filed by the EFCC demanding information about Nigerians trading on Binance, reports ...