NATIONAL NEWS

The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has said that over 137 students sponsored abroad by the fund absconded. He stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc committee investigating the alleged mismanagement of N2.3tn tertiary education tax by TETFund on Tuesday. Echono said the scholars, who […]

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has directed union members to go to work twice a week in view of the current hike in petrol prices occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy. The President of the Union, Smart Olugbeko, in a statement on Wednesday, said the union members could no longer survive […]

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmoud Yakubu and his National Commissioners on Wednesday, met with members of the various transport unions which the commission had engaged during the 2023 General Elections. The meeting which had as its main objective, the review of the conduct of the 2023 General Elections, was also […]

The House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected an amendment to a motion seeking to suspend the recent increase in the pump price of petrol. Members voted against the amendment after Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu who presided over plenary questioned if it was in the place of the House to take such a position since pump […]

The Senate has set up an adhoc committee chaired by Senator Francis Fadahunsi to investigate the abuse of firearms by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service in Katsina State and at border communities in the country. The committee would probe the incidents in Katsina including the alleged killings of residents by Customs officials during border […]

A group of Point of Sales operators in Nigeria have protested against the increased service charges in the country which took effect on Monday. The Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria announced new service charges for operators in June. The association had said the increase in service charges was to ensure Point […]

The suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has spent 33 days in the custody of the Department of State Services. The secret police arrested Bawa on June 14, hours after his suspension by President Bola Tinubu. The Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, […]

The Federal Government has confirmed the first case of Anthrax in Nigeria after disclosing on Monday that the disease was detected in a farm in Niger State. Making this known in a statement on Monday, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that it “is deeply concerned to announce the confirmation of an […]

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says oil marketers have commenced the importation of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol). This comes seven full weeks after President Bola Tinubu’s May 29 inaugural address, during which he declared that “fuel subsidy is gone”. With this latest development, the monopoly of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company […]

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Monday, faulted Russia’s decision to halt its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative. In a tweet on Monday, the former Minister of Finance expressed disappointment, saying the stoppage of the deal would be felt most severely by poor countries. “Deeply disappointed at the […]