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The Nigerian Senate has defended its decision to suspend Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan before the Inter-Parliamentary Union, stating that her suspension was not related to allegations of sexual harassment but due to gross misconduct. Speaking before the IPU on Wednesday, the Chairperson of the House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development, Kafilat Ogbara, dismissed claims […]

Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo, on Wednesday recalled the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Samson Osagie, five weeks after he was suspended from office over alleged corruption. His recall followed the consideration by the governor of the report of an Investigative Panel set up by Government to investigate allegations of financial infractions against […]

The House of Representatives has stripped the South West Development Commission of three percent of the total revenues derived yearly by the airports and seaports in the zone. It was gathered that the House will transmit the newly amended bill to President Bola Tinubu for assent today. This was part of the far reaching changes […]

Police Inspector General, Kayode Egbetokun has redeployed 25 top officers to various strategic formations nationwide. Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, announced this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday. He said the affected officers included seven Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs), and 18 Commissioners of Police (CPs) due […]

Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, seeking to overturn the Court of Appeal’s ruling that nullified the N20bn damages awarded to him against the Department of State Services and the Attorney General of the Federation. Igboho initially sued the AGF, the DSS, […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the N15.6tn Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway project as wasteful and corrupt. He equally slammed the President Bola Tinubu administration for spending N21bn on a new official residence for Vice President Kashim Shettima, calling it a misplaced priority and conduit designed to embezzle public funds. The ex-leader disclosed this in chapter […]

Aggrieved people of the Uduophori community in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State on Tuesday barricaded the East-West road in protest against the amputation of a 28-year-old resident by suspected killer herdsmen said to have besieged the locality. For several hours, the protesters halted vehicular movement from Bomadi and other neighbouring coastal communities as […]

Elder Statesman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, said on Wednesday that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has suffered grievously, restating his appeal to President Bola Tinubu to facilitate his release and the release of other prisoners of conscience in the country from further incarceration. He stated that since 2015, Kanu […]

The Rivers State House of Assembly has faulted claims by Governor Siminalayi Fubara that he was blocked from entering the House to re-present the state 2025 Appropriation Bill. The House said it never received any official communication from the governor indicating his interest in bringing the budget to the floor of the House, accusing him […]

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, was on Wednesday denied access to the official quarters of the state House of Assembly along Aba Road, Port Harcourt, where lawmakers loyal to his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, have been holding their sittings. Fubara, who arrived at the complex in the company of top government officials, including the Secretary to […]