•Ousmane Sonko Senegal’s Constitutional Council yesterday rejected jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s candidacy for next month’s presidential vote, his lawyer said, after a long-running judicial saga around the firebrand politician. The 49-year-old, who came third in the 2019 presidential election, has been at the centre of a bitter stan...
•CBT centre The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), has passionately called for the cancellation of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) format in the forthcoming West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exams. The forum believes that such mode of examination to be introduced will result in massive failure for students, particularly in rural state...
•Emefiele Embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has faulted allegations of stolen funds against him in the recently released report of the Special Investigator on the CBN and Related Entities. He explained his stance in a statement on Sunday titled, ‘Re: Emefiele, others stole billions, illegally kept Niger...
The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreation Services Employees (AUPCTRE) has rejected a plan by the management of the Lagos Water Corporation (LWC) to sack more workers at the LWC. AUPCTRE said the plan came to light on Monday during a meeting of the union leadership with the LWC’s Managing Director [&h...
•Yakubu and Tinubu The Budgetary aggregate of 40 Billion naira allocated to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has been turned down by the commission as they described the sum as grossly inadequate to fund the affairs of the electoral body. While rejecting the amount proposed by the office of Budget and National Planning of [&...
•Labour leaders and Tinubu (center) The Organised Labour has rejected the planned privatization of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, as announced by the federal government, warning that among others, it would worsen the socio-economic conditions of Nigerians. President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, said the planned priva...
•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)...
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