Beyond the Headlines
THE Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Audi, has condoled the families of seven personnel who were ambushed by bandits in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State. Addressing bereaved families at the NSCDC Kaduna Command Headquarters, on Thursday, during a condolence visit, the CG stated that the corps had in the […]
The candidate of the peoples Democratic Party in Aboh Mbaise/ Ngor Okpala federal constituency of Imo State, Albert Agulanna, has been sacked by a federal High court sitting in Abuja. The appellant court which delivered its verdict on Friday ordered that a fresh primary be held in the federal constituency within the next 14 […]
An appeal has gone to Nigerians, to “see the forthcoming general elections as most critical, as the outcome will determine the way forward for the nation”. The appeal was part of an eight-point communique issued yesterday, by the Catholic Bishops of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, after their two-day meeting at the Villa Assumpta, Owerri. […]
Friday 20 January 2023 Atiku under fire over ‘no vote, no contracts’ remarks Explosions rock South-South APC, PDP rallies Kano throat ailment kills 25, FG begins probe Slain NSCDC officers’ families get automatic employment FG increases petrol price to N185 per litre Presidency: Why we prefer Peter Obi — Obasanjo, Ortom APC Presidential Campaign […]
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at the State House, Abuja. This is Emefiele’s second meeting with the President since he “secretly” returned to the country on January 12, 2022. Earlier on Thursday, the embattled CBN chief was part of a delegation of the Arab Bank for […]
No fewer than three persons were injured, on Thursday, when a twin explosion rocked a rally of the All Progressiives Congress at the Rumuwoji Playground in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Two of those injured are women, all of whom were rushed to the hospital for medical attention. Publicity Secretary of the APC, […]
The Director of the Legal Services Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Kofo Salam-Alada, has said the agency will go tough on banks that continue to fill their ATM machines with old naira notes as the deadline to phase out the notes nears. He said the CBN was already monitoring banks that […]
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has filed his appeal against the ruling of a Federal High Court in Abuja, which compelled him to appear in a $53 million judgment debt suit. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the FHC had in his ruling last year summoned the CBN governor over his […]
As the petrol scarcity across the country continues to linger, oil marketers have accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited of politicising the supply process and making vain promises. The oil marketers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria claimed they had get fuel, despite the assurances from the Managing […]
There was pandemonium at the headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress on Wednesday as the National President, Ayuba Wabba, engaged in a rumpus fight with civil servants who demanded explanations over a failed housing scheme for public servants. The aggrieved civil servants had staged a protest in front of the NLC headquarters expressing their […]
