At least 5,392 people have been displaced from their homes, and businesses disrupted following flood incidents that grounded the Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State and the Lamurde Local Government Area of Adamawa State. This was revealed in a statement by the National Emergency Management Agency, shared on its X page on Wednesday. According […]
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The Federal Government has approved the increase of corps members’ monthly allowance to N77,000 with effect from July 2024. According to a statement signed by the NYSC’s Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Caroline Embu, on Wednesday, the approval was contained in a letter from the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, dated September […]
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu The Federal Executive Council is proposing an amendment to the National Identity Management Commission Act No. 23, 2007 to allow for foreigners living in the country to be issued the National Identification Number. The FEC, on Wednesday, also proposed the Economy Stabilisation Bill to pave the way for the taxing of […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed fresh charges against the wanted former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, accusing him of N110bn fraud. The EFCC had initially filed 19 charges against the former Kogi governor, along with his nephew Ali Bello, Dauda Suliman, and Abdulsalam Hudu, for money laundering offences amounting to N80,246,470,088.88. […]
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The Senate, on Wednesday, screened and confirmed Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced her confirmation during the plenary after she was cleared by voice votes. The 66-year-old jurist becomes the 23rd substantive CJN and the second female to occupy the office in Nigeria’s history. The […]
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Oil marketers are seeking to deal directly with the Dangote Petroleum Refinery instead of buying the company’s Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. Dealers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria and the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria said they had […]
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Cabinet rejig will be based on ministers’ performance – Presidency Political bigwigs, ministers intensify lobbying The Presidency stated on Wednesday that President Tinubu would soon rejig his cabinet, which confirmed Sunday Punch’s September 1 report that a cabinet shakeup was imminent. This happened as presidential aides said that some ministers had started frantic lobbying to […]
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By Eric Ikhilae With Justice Binta Nyako’s withdrawal from the treason trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the end of the case, which began in 2015 may be far from sight. This is because the case will be reassigned to a new judge by the Chief Judge John Tsoho within a time to be determined by him. […]
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By Opeyemi Bamidele Let me most sincerely welcome all my colleagues back from our annual recess, a period we, as a tradition, suspend plenaries for dispassionate field engagements. It was no doubt a period of wider consultations in preparation for the tasks ahead. It was also a period of intense engagement with critical stakeholders nationwide […]
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A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has said that the 2027 elections may never come to fruition, as the All Progressives Congress has destroyed and buried democracy in the country. He also accused the APC of orchestrating a plan to ground Nigeria through misgovernance. Secondus made this known in […]
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