Government

Newly inaugurated Anambra Cargo Airport has recorded 142 flights with 3,865 passengers landing and taking off after one month of its opening. The airport was opened for commercial services on December 7 last year. The Anambra Commissioner for Works, Marcel Ifejiofor, made the disclosure on Sunday in Umueri, near Awka, …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has assented to a bill to establish the Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo State. The bill was sponsored by the member representing Ondo East and West Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Peter Abiola Makinde. With the president’s assent, it repeals the law establishing …

Another budget padding scandal is quietly rocking the National Assembly following complaints by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), before signing the 2022 Appropriation Bill into law penultimate Friday. Some members across the two chambers, who were visibly angry about the development, told Sunday PUNCH on record that members were …

Nigerians on social media have reacted to a poster with the inscription “GEJ Is Coming Back” which suggests the ambition of former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest for presidency in the 2023 elections. The poster done by a faceless group known as the National Agenda for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. It …

Buhari to visit Ogun January 13 …to inaugurate multiple infrastructural projects President Muhammadu Buhari will embark on a state visit to Ogun State on Thursday, January 13. During the visit President Buhari will inaugurate some of the infrastructural projects executed by Governor Dapo Abiodun. According to a statement by Kunle …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila over “their failure to probe, and to refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies fresh allegations that N4.1bn of public money budgeted for the National Assembly …

Many senators, whose governors are completing their second terms in May 2023, have commenced moves to take over in their respective states. Since the beginning of the Fourth Republic, it has been a common practice among Nigerian politicians to switch from the legislature to the executive, and vice versa. Bala …

Inspite of overtures by some Northern governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to fly the flag of the party in next year’s election, there is no commitment yet from President Muhammadu Buhari or key party leaders on the matter, The Nation can now report. It …

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has advised those residing in southwest states to consider killing chickens for ceremonies instead of cows in order to prevent capital flight. According to the governor, the region has been losing nothing less than N2.5 billion daily to the consumption of cows. Akeredolu stated …

Ekweremadu Visits Nnamdi Kanu, Says Political Solution Over IPOB Leader’s Release Still Possible Former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has said that he visited leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in the custody of the Department of State Services. Though he did not specify …