Beyond the Headlines
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding a closed door meeting with governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The meeting is taking place at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa in Abuja. In attendance are Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and 18 governors, including those of Yobe, Kano, Kogi, Ekiti, Nasarawa, Kwara, Ebonyi, […]
The United Kingdom (UK) says it is sanctioning five Russian banks and three wealthy individuals. The development is coming after Moscow ordered troops into two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Addressing parliament on Tuesday, Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, said the sanction was the “first tranche” and “first barrage” of measures in response to […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that the Federal Government will not be involved in any dialogue with bandits. The Minister disclosed this in an interview with Daily Trust on Monday. The minister said due to the complexity of the issue, state governments should be allowed to decide on whether […]
A federal high court in Abuja has fixed March 28 for the arraignment of Rochas Okorocha, senator representing Imo west, over allegations of fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on January 31, filed a 17-count charge against the former Imo governor before a federal high court in Abuja. The charge against Okorocha […]
The Ebonyi State House of Assembly has elected and sworn in a new Deputy Speaker, Hon Kingsley Ikoro, who is representing Afikpo North West. But the dismissed deputy speaker, Hon Obasi Odefe, representing Onicha East, described the action as madness. The election of Ikoro followed a motion by Hon Onu Nwonye representing Ohaozara West […]
Only a fraction of the apartments in Anna Velichko’s shell-scarred high-rise are fit for habitation after years of a war in Ukraine that could turn yet more brutal should Russia invade. The 39-year-old lives in one of them up on the ninth floor. From her rickety perch overlooking the frontline of eastern Europe’s festering […]
Bauchi State government, through the Hisbah Department of the Bauchi State Shariah Commission, has rolled out a skill empowerment training to rehabilitate 575 commercial sex workers operating in the state in a bid to discourage them from prostitution and make them self-reliant. According to findings by Vanguard, 48 of the commercial sex workers in […]
The Federal High Court Jos Division has sentenced a former Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe as well as Raymond Dabo and Evangelist Leo Sunday Jitung to three-month imprisonment each. The trio had been standing trial for four years on charges bordering on conspiracy and money laundering. The sentence however has an option of […]
THE Senate will lay the report of the Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution Wednesday and begin to vote on the recommendations on Tuesday next week. Disclosing this Tuesday, Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on the Alteration to the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the request by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for permission to further detain for 14 days the two alleged drug couriers named in the case involving suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Justice Zainab Abubakar gave the order for the detention of Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and […]
