Pro-democracy advocates, HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA), has supported the extensive clamour for local council elections to become free, fair, transparent just as the Rights group said the recent judgment of the Supreme Court of Nigeria granting full financial autonomy to the local councils in the country will …

THE security team of the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, has arrested eight suspected cultists and hard drug peddlers during the ongoing second semester examination of the institution. This is contained in a statement by the institution’s Director, Public Relations and Protocol, Uredo Omale, made available to the press in Lokoja …

THE United Kingdom’s new Labour government vowed Wednesday to axe nearly 100 hereditary lawmakers from the House of Lords, in what it called a first step ahead of wider reforms of parliament’s unelected upper chamber. “Measures to modernise the constitution will be introduced including House of Lords reform to remove …

  PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has urged the Senate to amend the 2024 Appropriation Act and the 2023 Finance Act. Tinubu’s request is contained in a letter addressed to President of Senate, Godswill Akpabio and read at plenary on Wednesday. Tinubu in the letter said,”Pursuant to section 58, sub section two …

THE Senator representing Borno North, Sen. Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno) has replaced Sen. Ali Ndume representing Borno South (APC-Borno) as the Chief Whip of the Senate. This was contained in a letter by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje to the President of the Senate …

  THE Police on Wednesday, arraigned a 30-year old man, Najib Umar, at a Kano Sharia Court over alleged breach of trust and cheating. Najib, who resides at Fagge Quarters, Kano, is facing a three-count charge of criminal breach of trust, cheating and mischief. The Prosecutor, Insp Abdullahi Wada, told …

… Urge him to respect judicial interpretation on party leaderships THE attention of the leadership of the Labour Party has been drawn to a statement purportedly written and disseminated by Chief Femi Falana and his chambers for the purpose of disparaging our organization and which we think was done deliberately …

THE Federal Government has said there is no plan to hand over public universities to private investors. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, made the clarification at the Second Quarterly Engagement of the ministry with Heads of units and Chief Executive Officers of parastatals and agencies under the ministry. …

THE University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has again, emerged as the “Most Subscribed Institution” by candidates in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Institutional Ranking for the 2022/2023 admission exercise. Mr Kunle Akogun, the Director of Corporate Affairs, UNILORIN, who spoke with newsmen in Ilorin on Tuesday, said the university …

  THE latest debt data report by the Debt Management Office (DMO) shows that Nigeria’s total debt stock stood at $91.46 billion in Q1 2024, an equivalence of N121.67 trillion at the exchange rate of N1,330 per dollar. In Naira terms, this is a 24.99 percent (N24.33 trillion) increase over …