Beyond the Headlines
Tuesday 18 July 2023 Audit report nails Adamu, Omisore as Tinubu, govs shop for new chair Suspended EFCC chair spends 33 days in custody Nigeria at high risk of anthrax outbreak, FG warns PoS operators divided as new charges commence Economists decry high production costs as inflation hits 22.79% Subsidy Removal: Oil Marketers Have […]
Finland-based Biafran separatist leader, Simon Ekpa has absolved his group, the Auto-pilot and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, of being responsible for the killings and destructions in the southeast and blamed politicians instead. He said sit-a-home is a civil disobedience but politicians are the ones sponsoring thugs to cause the mayhem in the […]
Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu has threatened that traders in Enugu who observe next Monday’s sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will lose their shops and licenses. Mbah stated this when he toured various parts of the state capital on Monday to monitor the level of compliance with his ban […]
The Labour Party (LP) has told President Bola Tinubu that his removal from office by the court will not cause anarchy in the country. Tinubu had asked the presidential election tribunal to dismiss the petition filed by LP seeking to nullify his victory on the grounds that he did not secure 25 percent of […]
Two members of the House of Representatives have defended the National Assembly in the wake of the controversy trailing its N70 billion allocation in the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Act. The funds will cover renovations in the new chambers, according to the member for Obanliku/Obudu/Bekwara Federal Constituency in Cross River State, Peter Akpanke, and his […]
Some constitutional and human rights lawyers have filed a contempt charge and commenced committal proceedings against the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi. The move against Bichi, according to the lawyers, is a result of a violation of multiple judgements and orders of court directing the release of the […]
The Abia State Government says it has saved over N200 million on the monthly wage bill, following an ongoing verification of civil servants and other public workers that eliminated over 2,300 ghost workers from the state’s payroll. According to a Monday statement by Kazie Uko, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Alex Otti, the […]
The Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun, has arrested no fewer than 28 people for their involvement in various crimes in some parts of the state. Among the suspected criminals were two secondary school girls who were arrested by the men of the corps for allegedly faking their kidnap and demanding […]
One Prophet Segun Philip, 42, and Owolabi Adeeko, 23, have been sentenced to death by hanging by an Osun State High Court, sitting in Ikire, for killing Favour Daley-Oladele, a final year student of Lagos State University for ritual purposes. Justice Christiana Obadina while delivering judgement on the case in Ikire on Monday, also […]
The Federal Government, on Monday, confirmed the first case of anthrax in Nigeria, stating that the disease was detected in a farm in Niger State. On June 13, 2023, The PUNCH reported that the Federal Government alerted the general public to the outbreak of anthrax disease in some neighbouring countries within the West African […]
