There are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari is not fully decided on the reassumption of some of his cabinet ministers who recently withdrew from the Presidential race to finish their term as ministers. Recall that owing to the Electoral Act amendment, Buhari had directed all ministers interested in contesting the …
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Family Faults Ex-Speaker Etteh’s Arrest, Blames EFCC
Patricia Etteh’s family has criticized the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s detention of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives. In a statement issued by its spokesman, Femi Alabi, headed ‘Mrs Patricia Etteh’s detention: Setting the record right,’ the family also accused the EFCC for the ex-imprisonment. lawmaker’s According …
Read More »NPC Launches 2023 Census Situation Room
National Population Commission (NPC) on Wednesday launched Census Situation Room, in line with its commitment to conducting digital census in 2023. The Chairman of the commission, Alhaji Nasir Kwarra, who declared the 2023 Population and Housing Census Situation Room open in Abuja, said that the room will be a communication …
Read More »BREAKING: Finance Minister Suspends Accountant-General, Ahmed Idris Indefinitely
Ahmed Idris, the Accountant General of the Federation, has been suspended indefinitely. Idris was suspended by the Minister of Finance, budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Wednesday. His suspension followed his indictment for fraud worth N80 billion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. EFCC’s spokesman, Wilson Uwajaren, …
Read More »Court Adjourns Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial To May 26
Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu till May 26, 2022 for continuation of trial, Newsextra24 reports. The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako had announced the adjournment date after dismissing application for bail brought …
Read More »2023 Presidency: No PDP Candidate Can Contest Against Me – Tinubu
All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Senator Bola Tinubu has urged delegates of his party to give him the presidential ticket in the coming 2023 general elections assuring that there would be no contest between him and whoever emerges as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Senator …
Read More »Police Rescue Kidnap Victim In Anambra, Arrest Two Suspects (Photos)
Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have rescued a kidnapped victim, Jideofor Attama and arrested two suspected kidnappers. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday May 18, said the kidnappers abducted Attama last week along Nnewi road and demanded N10m ransom …
Read More »Osun 2022: Court Rules In Favour Of Adeleke As PDP Guber Candidate
The Federal High Court in Osogbo has ruled that Senator Ademola Adeleke is the duly recognised gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Osun 2022 gubernatorial election. In the judgment, which was delivered early on Wednesday by Justice Nathaniel Ayo Emmanuel, Dotun Babayemi did not participate in …
Read More »Journalist Renounces Studentship Of ABU Over Murder Of Deborah (See Photo & Details)
The Vice Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State, 13th May, 2022, Dear Sir, RENOUNCEMENT OF MY STUDENTSHIP IN PROTEST OF THE GRUESOME MURDER OF SOKOTO COLLEGE STUDENT I, Oyeniyi Oyewole Iwakun, a Political Science postgraduate student with the admission number: P21SSPS8018 wishes to inform you of my decision …
Read More »FG Amends Charge Against Kanu, Lists His Lawyers As Accomplices
The Federal Government is set to re-arraign the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on an amended six-count treasonable felony charge. The amendment came on a day trial Justice Binta Nyako fixed to hear an application Kanu filed to be released on bail, pending the …
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