Government

PRESIDENT BUHARI VOWS TO SANCTION CORRUPT PUBLIC SERVANTS, HONOURS THREE NIGERIANS FOR INTEGRITY, EXEMPLARY CONDUCT The Federal Government will sanction those who bring in personnel into the public workforce by illegal recruitment, pad their payroll and retain ghost workers, President Muhammadu Buhari said Tuesday in Abuja. Declaring open the 3rd …

Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in the 2011 elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, declared that the party is completely opposed to the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. He made the disclosure just as the Governorship candidate of the CPC in Adamawa State; General …

An FCT High Court presided over by Justice Hamza Muazu has sacked the All Nigeria Progressives Congress, APC exco loyal to the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje. Delivering the ruling on Tuesday, the judge granted all the reliefs sought by the Senator Ibrahim Shekarau faction, seeking a declaration that Ganduje-led group …

Hundreds of federal civil servants especially in Abuja are rushing to hospitals and designated centres to take the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of tomorrow’s deadline, Daily Trust reports. This is in the wake of the ravaging effect of another COVID-19 variant named Omicron, which puts the world on red alert as …

Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja has declared as illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional, the banishment of the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to Awe, a remote community in Nasarawa State. The court held that the restrictions placed on Sanusi after his deposition on March …

Aisha Yesufu, popular social media activist, has said that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, would claim responsibility for Jack Dorsey’s resignation as Twitter Chief Executive Officer. According to her, the government would soon tell Nigerians that Jack’s resignation was part of negotiations to return the social media …

Beautiful to see the finishing touches to the installation of the Production lines at the Coconut Refinery. We took young leaders from the 19 Northern states on a tour of projects executed by Governor Udom Emmanuel. A coalition made up of groups in the nineteen states of Northern Nigeria is …

Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has given its decision on the proposed plan by the federal government to remove fuel subsidy and as well increase the pump price of petroleum by 2022. The minister of finance, Zainab Ahmed, had announced a few days ago that the government would remove fuel subsidy …

The Northern Elders Forum, NEF has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to release Nnamdi Kanu from custody. Recall that Buhari after a meeting with the Southeast elders promised to consider a lighter resolution but worried that such would interfere with the principles of separation of power between the Executive and …

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has kicked against plans by the Federal Government to pay the sum of N5,000 to the ‘poorest of the poor’ in the country to cushion the effect of the proposed subsidy removal next year. In a statement by the PFN President, Bishop Francis Wale …