•Abdul Samad Rabiu The BUA Group has declined the recent purported appointment of its chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, to a standing committee of a political party – the All Progressives Congress, APC. The group, in a statement made available to this paper, stated that its chairman has consistently adopted an apolitical stance over the yea...
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has rejected over 30,000 applicants who applied as cadets of the 75th Regular Course of the prestigious military institution. NDA Commandant, Major General John Ochai, who made the disclosure at the matriculation of 441 cadets into the various degree programmes as members of the 75th Regular Course of the NDA...
European football governing body UEFA upheld a 500,000 euro fine ($537,000) on Spanish champions Barcelona on Friday for a breach of their financial control rules. UEFA’s club financial control body (CFCB) said in a statement the Catalan club wrongly reported profits “on the disposal of intangible assets” in the financial year 2022, reports AF...
•Etekamba Umoren The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the appointment of Etekamba Umoren as a Resident Electoral Commissioner. The Senate yesterday confirmed the appointments of seven out of the 10 RECs forwarded to it by President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, reports The PUNCH. The RECs whose appointments were confirmed are Umoren (Akwa Ibom)...
The Supreme Court has dismissed the application of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar to present fresh evidence to support his appeal at the court. Atiku had sought the leave of the apex court to submit Tinubu’s credentials obtained from the Chicago State University to prove the president forged the docu...