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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]