The leadership crisis rocking the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) escalated today, as the Bala Audu-led national officers firmly rejected the purported suspension of its president, describing the move as unconstitutional and void. At a press briefing held at the association’s national headquarters in Abuja, the Secretary-General, Benjamin E...
•Sheikh Alkali Abubakar Salihu Zaria The suspension of a cleric, Sheikh Alkali Abubakar Salihu Zaria by the leadership of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Jos faction, is generating reactions. Sheikh Alkali, who deployed to lead the Ramadan exegesis at Mokas Mosque in Damaturu, Yobe State, was suspended after he delivered ...
•Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, today, affirmed the decision of the Senate to suspend Senator Natasha Akpoti, holding that the red chamber acted within its powers. In a unanimous judgment delivered by a three-member panel in Natasha’s appeal against the Clerk of the National Assembly and three others...
•Hashimu Dungurawa The National Working Committee (NWC) of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has nullified the suspension of its Kano State Chairman, Alhaji Hashimu Dungurawa, describing the action as illegal, undemocratic and of no effect. In a statement issued from the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja yesterday, Tuesday, December 30...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed for ruling on Monday, an Exparte Motion seeking to suspend the implementation of the new tax law. The motion filed by Incorporated Trustees of African Initiative for Abuse of Public Trustees (plaintiff), alleged discrepancies in the newly gazetted tax laws, reports Daily Independent. The suit joined th...
•CNG logo and Tinubu The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has condemned what it described as rascality and a treasonable subversion of Nigeria’s democratic order over allegations that key provisions of the recently gazetted tax reform laws were altered after their passage by the National Assembly. The group warned that the alleged alteration...
•Tinubu and ADC logo The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has asked the federal government to halt the implementation of the 2025 tax laws over what it called a “forgery” of some provisions. ADC’s spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, accused the government of altering several parts of the tax laws, including some “criminal insertions” that grant the ...
•Suspended former Speaker Aondona Dajoh The political crisis in the Benue State House of Assembly is far from over, as the suspension of former Speaker Aondona Dajoh has been extended by another six months by the current Speaker, Alfred Berger. The motion for the extension was moved by Terna Shimawua, the lawmaker representing Kyan State [&hel...
•Senator Gbenga Daniel and APC logo The Ogun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has restated that the suspension of the Senator representing Ogun East, Otunba Olugbenga Daniel, remains in full effect, warning that any engagements with him as a member of the party are invalid. The party made this known in an […]
•Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to a devastated Gaza City, after an Israel-Hamas ceasefire The families of Israeli hostages today demanded that the next steps in the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire be put on hold until Hamas returns the remaining bodies of dead captives. “Hamas knows exactly where every one of the deceased hostages ...

