Beyond the Headlines
Following the lingering crisis between the people of Umuobor-Akaeze and Ogwor-Ishiagu both in the Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Governor Francis Nwifuru has declared the disputed land a buffer zone. The two neighbouring communities have been engaged in communal clashes for over five decades, leading to loss of lives and destruction of properties […]
South Korea’s opposition leader warned his ruling party colleagues on Friday that “history will remember” if they do not back the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, with just over 24 hours until a vote to remove him from office. Yoon’s short-lived imposition of South Korea’s first martial law in over four decades plunged the […]
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation says for the second consecutive year, conflict zones have proven dangerous for journalists and media workers, with 2024 seeing at least 68 deaths in the line of duty. More than 60 per cent of these killings occurred in countries experiencing conflict – the highest percentage in over a decade, […]
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has cautioned local government chairmen across the country against mismanaging or looting public funds. The AGF stressed that the autonomy granted to local governments by the Supreme Court is to empower the grassroots and not for carting public funds into private pockets as […]
Friday 13 December 2024 Tax reform: APC govs may meet N’Assemby, ACF raises panel Tinubu presents 2025 budget to N’Assembly Tuesday LG autonomy: FG threatens contempt suit against errant govs World Bank may approve $500m loan to Nigeria today Senate orders Wike to halt Abuja house demolitions Senate orders Julius Berger MD’s arrest over abandoned […]
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna, says 36 state governments have submitted their reports on the creation of state police to the national economic council (NEC). Sani spoke in Abuja on Thursday after the NEC meeting presided over by Vice-President Kashim Shettima. Sani stated that many states support the plan to establish state police, noting that […]
A chief magistrates’ court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Thursday, remanded a 30-year-old woman, Mercy Michael, in a correctional facility for allegedly killing her daughter with rat poison. Michael was charged by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp, NSCDC, with culpable homicide, contrary to Section 189 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law. The […]
The Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has announced a major reshuffle of the state executive council to effect the pragmatic political realignment of his administration. In a statement issued by the governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Dawakin-Tofa, on Thursday, Yusuf disclosed that the first major rejig of his cabinet will take immediate effect. According to the statement, […]
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike has defended the demolition of properties in the nation’s seat of power, saying he won’t be swayed by blackmail. Wike said the structures being demolished by the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) are properties illegally built on government lands. “Let me use this opportunity to […]
President Bola Tinubu will present the 2025 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly on Tuesday, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has disclosed. Akpabio made this known during the announcement at the Thursday plenary on the floor of the Senate. He said, “The president has made his intention known to the National Assembly to present the […]
