Judgment in a suit seeking disqualification of the governor-elect and deputy governor-elect for Anambra State in the November 6 governorship election, Prof Charles Soludo and Onyeka Ibezim has been shifted by 24 hours. The judgment was initially fixed for today, November 30, by Justice Taiwo Oladipupo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja. A […]
An aide to Senator Muhammad Danjuma Goje, Muhammad Adamu Yayari, was on Tuesday remanded in police custody by a Chief Magistrate’s Court for posting the resignation of some ward executives of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from Yamaltu/Deba LGA, on his Facebook page. Yayari, who is the Special Assistant to the senator on New […]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Mohammed has vowed that the judiciary would not rest on its oars until corruption is stamped out of the country. The CJN said this on Tuesday during the third National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector in Abuja, the nation’s capital. According to him, between 2020/2021, over […]
The Nigerian Army personnel and some gunmen are having a heavy shootout at Mgbidi and Akata in the Oru West Local Government Area of Imo State. The Sun reports that a source from the area explained that the gun battle started as early as 6am on Tuesday when the gunmen allegedly enforcing the partial lockdown […]
Former Director-General of the Lagos State Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Muda Yusuf, has backed the removal of fuel subsidy, saying the move is necessary for the nation’s economy to stand. Last week, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, had announced that the government would remove fuel subsidy and replace it […]
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, has spoken for the first time about the report of the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality. The report of the panel was leaked shortly after it was submitted to the Lagos state government on November 15. The findings and recommendations of the panel further deepened the controversy over […]
A fresh crisis has engulfed secessionist agitators in Southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt as one of the arrowheads of the self-determination coalition, Prof Banji Akintoye, resigned as the Chairman of the group known as the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination. Until his resignation, NINAS was the umbrella body of self-determination groups in the […]
An Abuja High Court has nullified the congresses of the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s faction of the All Progressive Congress (APC). In his ruling, Justice Hamza Muazu upheld the congresses conducted by the Senator Ibrahim Shekarau-led faction of the party. There is currently a crisis between Ganduje and Shekarau over the control of APC in the […]
Bolaji Owasanoye, chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), says 257 projects amounting to N20.138 billion were duplicated in the 2021 budget. The ICPC chairman while speaking at the third national summit on diminishing corruption in the public service with the theme “Corruption and the Cost of Governance: New Imperatives […]
Nigerian Singer, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has given more information about the disbursement of N250M to orphanage homes across the country. Ina social media post, the music star said only government approved orphanages are qualified to apply for the fund. The artiste had raised over N200 million within two days after he […]
