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THE Visitation Panel to the University of Lagos, UNILAG, has ordered the management to close all its accounts in commercial banks. The panel also said it discovered cases of financial abuses by top officials of the institution, noting that it found the university in continuous breach of the directive on …

THE vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, Peter Obi, has faulted the latest National Bureau of Statistics report which stated that the country’s economy has recorded a five per cent growth to Gross Domestic Product growth. He added that growth with rising poverty …

The Executive Governor of Abia State, Victor Okezie Ikpeazu has forwarded some names as Commissioner Nominees to the Abia State House of Assembly for Screening. Ojigwe (born 11 December 1976) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a defender or defensive midfielder. Ojigwe started and ended his footballing …

Some other states such as Edo, Ondo, Oyo and Taraba say they are still studying the ruling of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt on the matter, while Delta State says it is consulting before it will take a position on the issue. This is in spite of the …

Battle for the office of the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has commenced, with heavyweight politicians throwing themselves into the ring. This is especially as the party has commenced congresses at the ward, local government, state and zonal levels, at the end of which a national …

Hon. Bosun Oladele, a former member of the House of Representatives and chieftain of the ruling All Progres­sives Congress (APC ) has said he will queue behind Asiwaju Bola Tinubu if the APC primaries is between him and the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo. Oladele who is the Secretary of …

Confronting harassment by Kenyan Twitter influencers – recently revealed to have been paid to promote misinformation – is akin to dealing with guerrilla warfare, admits an activist involved in a legal battle to stop a change to the constitution. “It is waged against you until it tires you out,” Daisy …

Five northern states, two south-western states, two south-south states, and one south-eastern state collected a total of N373.84bn of the N836.51bn Value Added Tax allocation available for states in 14 months. This is according to the latest FAAC allocation data available from the National Bureau of Statistics for the months …

Lack of consensus among the major blocs in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is responsible for the delay in fixing a date for the national convention of the party, Newsextra24 has gathered. Stakeholders had predicted that the convention will hold in June, this year, but that date did not …

The federal government is considering dragging some medical doctors through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for illegally collecting medical training allowances meant for House Officers on residency training programme in 2020, to the tune of N540 million. …