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The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the posting of 86 Deputy Commissioners of Police and 206 Assistant Commissioners of Police to various zonal commands, state commands and police formations, across the country. The senior police officers are to deputize other Senior Commissioners of Police and other most senior officers in the discharge of…
Fire gutted some shops in the popular Alaba International Market in the Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the fire incident started on Friday morning. Director, of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye confirmed the incident in a statement. However, she disclosed that the fire crew were confronted…
• Why North may outsmart South• Umahi: Southeast deserves No.3 seat• Adopt Northwest for Senate President, group gives Tinubu condition for second term After some lull in political intrigues since the completion of the general elections in March, next month’s inauguration and election of principal officers of the 10th National Assembly is another crucial contest…
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The Federal government on Tuesday, accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), of not “showing good cause” in the pursuit of its suit before the National Industrial Court. Mr J.U.K Igwe SAN, counsel to the Minister of Labour and Employment and Minister of Education who are the claimants in the suit made the accusation…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the postponement of the 2023 Population and Housing Census, earlier scheduled for May 3-7 2023, to a date to be determined by the incoming administration. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this in a statement, yesterday, in Abuja, said the President gave the approval after meeting…
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission over its failure to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offences including bribery against some state governors and their deputies during the 2023 elections. According to reports, the recently concluded presidential, national assembly, and governorship elections in some…
Read More “SERAP sues INEC over failure to probe govs on election violence” »
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has advised the opposition to stop their endless griping over the 2023 presidential election which they lost woefully, saying they know very well that they deserve to lose the election because of their overconfidence and complacency. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, the Minister argued that…
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The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba has ordered the deployment of 12 Commissioners of Police to various state commands across the country. The THTV reports that this follows the approval of Baba’s recommendation by the Police Service Commission for the posting of the CPs to various state commands. The IG also tasked the senior police…
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, on Wednesday, lashed out at the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), saying his alleged ‘sins’ against Nigerians would never be forgiven. The separatist group, in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, was reacting to Buhari’s recent appeal that “all those that I have hurt,…
The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, departed his Asokoro residence for Defence Guest House in the Maitama District of Abuja, from where he will function until May 29 inauguration. Recall that the current President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), also lodged at the same base months before his May 29, 2015 inauguration, from where…
Read More “Tinubu receives Adamu, Okorocha, others at Defence House” »
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, in Abuja said it has spent $1.2m to deploy 40 buses to evacuate at least 2,400 stranded Nigerians out of Sudan. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed this to State House correspondents shortly after this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by the President, Major General Muhammadu…
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The governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the just concluded 2023 general election in Enugu State, Chief Dons Udeh, has been reportedly found dead. Udeh, who was said to have got missing on Saturday, was reportedly found dead on Wednesday at the 9th Mile area of the state, barely four days after….
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to file fresh proceedings against former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, over money laundering. Femi Fani-Kayode and Nenadi Usman were arraigned by on a 17-count charge in June 2016. Aside Fani-Kayode and Usman, also listed as defendants in the case are Danjuma Yusuf and Joint Trust Dimensions…
Read More “EFCC to file fresh charges against Femi Fani-Kayode, others over money laundering” »
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday, sued for calm from all parties involved in the board chairmanship tussle of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, saying due process would take its course. This comes barely 24 hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja, reinstated Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as the non-executive Chairman…
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, restored Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as the non-executive Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. The court set aside his removal by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), which happened on January 17, 2023. Senator Ararume had dragged Buhari before the court praying it to declare his…
Read More “[BREAKING] NNPCL: Court reverses Ararume’s sacking, awards N5bn damages against Buhari” »
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday refused to vacate an interim order which restrained the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, the National Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim, and two others from parading themselves as leaders of the party. Alex Ejieseme SAN, counsel for Abure, had prayed the court to…
Read More “LP crisis: Court refuses to lift suspension order on Abure, others” »
Barely one month after the reintroduction of old N200, N500 and N1,000 notes, some residents of Anambra have decried the unavailability of the new notes in many banks in the state. Some of them told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Monday that they hardly complete transactions with new naira notes because…
According to Plato in his metaphoric and poetic way of expressing higher reality, he told a story about Er, a warrior who came back to life on the funeral pyre, after having been believed dead. Er according to Plato, was said to have seen many things in the afterlife, but he was told that he…
The inability of the Federal Government and ASUU to come to a compromise, even after President Muhammadu Buhari gave members of his team a clear implementation timeline underscores the point that has been long emphasized. Which is that Nigeria’s tertiary education funding model has to be revisited. I agree with ASUU that their working conditions…
The fintech has gained significant traction with its payment’s app and nationwide agency banking network LAGOS, Nigeria, August 31, 2022/ — PalmPay (https://PalmPay.com/), a fintech innovator aiming to make digital payment more accessible and flexible, announced that it has reached 10 million users in Nigeria. This represents a doubling in its user base within just six…
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THE DUMB APC AND BATSHIT MEDIA PROPAGANDISTS, USING THE CRIMINALLY ENFORCED MONDAY SIT AT HOME ORDER BY ALLEGEDLY GOVERNMENT ENABLED/ ALLOWED UNKNOWN GUN MEN THAT IS DESTROYING ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN THE SOUTH EAST TO PLAY CHEAP POLITICS. ✍These dumb and unenlightened APC social media urchins, are not aware that the use of terror in the…
Read More “APC government has criminally failed to protect the lives and properties of Nigerian” »
My support for PO is mainly from an economic growth potential than any primordial sentiment. Nigeria is BROKE & by extension 89million Nigerians are ‘very’ poor while 53millions are “on God”. So how does PO holds the 🗝️ to unlock wealth? Pls walk with me To start with, let’s explore the strategy the two APC…
The Nigerian Academy of International Affairs is a body of eminent and retired professionals and scholars in diplomacy and International Affairs. The Academy is scandalized by the clownish gathering of some members of our political elite in London recently following similar meetings in Paris and Dubai. It is most unfortunate and heartbreaking that some Nigerian…
The National Chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Prof Rufai Alkali has explained why alliance talks between their presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, collapsed. According to Alkali, the talks about a merger fell apart because the LP camp insisted that NNPP concedes the presidency to…
Read More “NigeriaDecides2023: NNPP reveals why merger with Peter Obi’s Labour Party collapsed” »
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has asked the Nigerian electorate not to vote for any of the presidential candidates speaking through proxies. Recall that at the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference (NBA-AGC) in Lagos last Monday where most of the leading presidential candidates unveiled their programmes for 2023…
The fact that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike brought the next president of Nigeria and a previous president of Nigeria to London for decisive meetings last week, accompanied by his political allies, is a reflection of his current political influence. Bredda Bola Tinubu, the All-Progressives Congress’ (APC) presidential candidate, was the first person he met….
Read More “Nyesom Wike advises Atiku Abubakar and the PDP to act honorably” »
Workers of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) under the auspices of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions NASU) have announced the suspension of the unions’ strike actions for the next two months. Briefing newsmen after the unions’ meeting on Wednesday at…
Read More “FUTO SSANU and NASU Members Resume Work After Suspension of Five Months Strike” »
Today, I’m on a political voyage to discuss political justice and fair play as it concerns the Executive Governor of Rivers State Chief Nyesom Wike. All my readers should read this article with a mind bereft of political resentment, rancor and bias. It’s only by so doing one can appreciate the inherent reality. The science…
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National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke on Monday stated that the union would meet with the Federal Government today (Tuesday). According to Osodeke, the union and the Federal Government are meeting to address its demands which led to the ongoing strike. The ASUU President speaking on when the…
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Chimaroke Nnamani, a senator for Enugu East and a former governor of Enugu state, has pleaded with the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reach an agreement and #EndASUUStrike so that students can return to class. At the same time, the federal lawmaker praised the outstanding performance of Mea Mater…
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