The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has lauded the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for releasing $64.44 million in blocked airline funds, but said $700 million remains blocked in Africa’s most populous nation. The group disclosed it was in consultations with airline members to verify the release of these revenues, reports Channels...
•Dr Nnimmo Bassey A renowned Nigerian environmental organisation, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has condemned unequivocally, the planned commercial release of TELA maize in the country by the federal government. Recall that the federal government on Thursday, January 11, 2024 openly approved the open cultivation and commercial rel...
•Buhari The former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina, has revealed why the ex-president refused to release his WAEC result during the 2015 and 2019 presidential elections. Adesina revealed in his book, titled, ‘Working with Buhari: Reflections of a Special Adviser, Media and P...
•Sulaimon Argungu (right) and Umar Bature The All Progressives Congress, APC, and the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have released timetables and schedules of activities for the February 3, 2024 bye-elections. The APC bye-election timetable was released yesterday. It was signed by the party’s National Organising Secr...
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) yesterday ordered the immediate release of Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s president who has been held captive since the coup that overthrew him on July 26, and that of his family. The Court “orders the defendant (the military authorities in Niamey, editor’s note) to [&hell...
•Nnamdi Kanu The Supreme Court will tomorrow, Friday December 15, deliver judgment on the appeal seeking to compel the federal government to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. A five-member panel led by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun had in October fixed the date after counsel for both the [...
•Tinubu and Bazoum The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has stated that Nigeria will continue to engage with the government of the Niger Republic to ensure the release of the country’s deposed President, Mohamed Bazoum. Former Nigeria’s Military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), said in August that Bazoum told the del...
•Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo The federal government, yesterday, said it had raised N585m towards the settlement of fines for inmates in a bid to decongest correctional centres across the country. The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, represented by an Assistant Director in the ministry, Dr Anayo Romanus-Nzekwe, disclosed this yesterday in K...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till tomorrow, to hear the application option by a man in the custody of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mr. Obiora Samuel, seeking to enforce his right to freedom. Samuel, in the court paper, told the court that he has been in the anti-narcotics […]
•Emefiele Justice Adegbola Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, has ordered the unconditional and immediate release of the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice Adeniyi made the order after Emefiele filed a Motion Ex-parte, seeking his release from the custody of the Economic and...
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