The screening of at least three ministerial nominees was put on hold for reasons of age forgery and age falsification, among others, as the Senate commenced the exercise yesterday. Of the 14 nominees listed on the order paper for screening, seven, including immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, were asked to […]
No fewer than 11 persons were shot dead, while another one sustained gunshot injuries when suspected members of Boko Haram terrorists ransacked Kawuri village in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State. Kawuri is located between Bama and Konduga expressway, which shares boundary with Sambisa forests, the hideouts of the terrorists. An elder […]
Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court on Monday sentenced three students to five years in prison each for conspiring and gang raping a cousin of one of them. The court found them guilty on a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and rape of the at the Adangba area of Ilọrin. The […]
The Senate on Monday commenced the screening of the first batch of 28 ministerial nominees forwarded by President Bola Tinubu, interviewing 14 of them. The screening commenced at the upper chamber during a plenary session that started around 12:41 pm upon the arrival of Senate President Godswill Akpabio. Among those screened were former governor […]
President Bola Tinubu on Monday said the Federal Government of Nigeria has saved N1tn in the two months since the removal of the petrol subsidy. Tinubu said these monies that would have been otherwise squandered by those he called “smugglers and fraudsters” will now be channeled into intervention programmes targeting families nationwide “In a […]
The Organised Labour says its nationwide strike to protest the removal of petroleum subsidy will proceed as planned. The strike is scheduled to begin on Wednesday. The unions, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), spoke after a meeting with government representatives at the presidential villa on Monday. The […]
The Judicial Service Commission in Uganda has sacked a grade one magistrate, Mr Ammaari Musa Ssemwogerere who was recently appointed, after he was remanded to Lira main prison on charges of impersonation and uttering a false document, Ugandan newspaper, Daily Monitor reports. According to the report published on Saturday, information from the director of […]
