•Telecoms Telecom operators yesterday renewed their push for end-user tariff hike to reflect the cost of doing business. The operators, acting under the aegis of Association of Licensed Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ALTON) and Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) in a joint statement asked for a cost-reflective tariff of service...
•House of Representatives A bill seeking to grant five-month leave to persons who lose their spouse has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. Sponsored by Honourable Saidu Abdullahi, the bill seeks to enable the widow or widower mourn the deceased spouse and make immediate arrangements for the challenges ahead, reports Channel...
Lawyers, including two Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), have called for the reduction of the powers of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to accountability and public confidence in the nation’s judicial process. They expressed concern that the increasing challenge of accountability, lack of transparency, and corruption among others, contribu...
•Dr Ini Adiakpan The Dean, Commissioners of Women Affairs in Nigeria, Dr Ini Adiakpan, has called for a broader partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to address the challenges of gender-based violence in the country . Adiakpan, leading other Commissioners of Women Affairs from the 36 States of the Federation, spoke y...
•Bandits Students of Nasarawa State origin in tertiary institutions have decried the continuous kidnapping of their colleagues for ransom, and called on the federal and state governments to expedite action towards proffering a lasting solution to the matter. Students of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi; the state-owned Isa Mustapha Agwai P...
•New Naira notes Statutory allocations from the Federal Account Allocation Committee to the 36 states and 774 local government areas from July to December 2023, increased to N3.34tn post-fuel subsidy era. Figures obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics indicate an increase of N545bn or 19.5 per cent from the N2.79trn distributed to sta...
•Bode George and Tinubu Amidst high-security challenges in the country, former Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, today urged President Bola Tinubu to call a meeting of all Service Chiefs and former military leaders in Nigeria to fashion out a solution to the menace. George, who is also the Atona ...
A group, the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has alleged that over 5,000 Nigerian youths are illegally detained in the ReÂpublic of Benin and asked the Federal Government to investiÂgate it. At a press conference in Abuja, the group urged the federal govÂernment to investigate its claims, adding that its members had emÂbarked on month-long resea...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on Customs and Excise has called for the setting up of a tripartite committee comprising the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Ministry of Finance, and the Nigeria Customs Service to provide a framework for a coordinated platform on fiscal and monetary policies for the country. The Ch...