NATIONAL NEWS

Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a resolution urging Governor Chukwuma Soludo to direct the Commissioners of Police and Homeland Affairs, to increase surveillance in Onitsha metropolis with special reference to Onitsha Owerri Road. The House passed the resolution following a motion sponsored to that effect by the member representing Ogbaru One Constituency, Honourable […]

The House of Representatives has urged the National Universities Commission (NUC) to suspend the implementation of an increase in the tuition fees of universities. This was contained in a motion by Aliyu Sani Madaki, who noted that the universities that hiked their fees included Bayero University, Kano; the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; the University of […]

Policemen attached to Tolu Division, Lagos State Police Command, have arrested five suspected cultists while attempting to initiate their victim into their cult group. The suspects identified as Peter Odumola, 19; Promise Benjamin, 20; Emmanuel Ikechuckwu, 19; Richards Adu, 18 and Abdullahi Nasiru, 20 were arrested on July 9, 2023 about 2a.m., following receipt of […]

The Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, on Monday, vowed a heavy clampdown on oil thieves, insisting that the nation cannot “afford to let saboteurs take over our economy.” Adeniyi, who said there were still cases of smuggling of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, at Nigeria’s border stations despite the removal […]

Justice James Omotoso of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered an investigation of the Prosecution Counsel, Ibrahim Mohammed, who filed an eight-count charge against Senator Stella Oduah. The court is inquiring how the charge sheet which was filed in June by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is being prosecuted by the police. […]

The President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has written to the Senate requesting the confirmation of the newly appointed Service Chiefs. Senate President Godswill Akpabio, who read the letter at the resumption of the plenary session on Tuesday, said the service chiefs would be screened by the entire Senate in its chamber at a yet-to-be-announced date. Akpabio […]

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, returned to Abuja after a two-day trip to Guinea Bissau for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in Bissau. At the summit, which is the President’s first meeting with the sub-regional authority, Tinubu emerged […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail at N50million to suspended DCP Abba Kyari in a charge in which he and two of his siblings are accused of failing to declare assets to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The NDLEA had filed the 24-count charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/408/2022 against Kyari and his […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has said that a total of 798 confirmed cases of diphtheria have been recorded in Nigeria with one death since December 2022. In an official press statement signed by the Director General of NCDC, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa also disclosed that 654 cases of the 798 confirmed […]

Following the growing concerns that tertiary institutions might increase tuition fees on the heels of the recently passed Students Loan Act, the House of Representatives has warned against such a move. It also resolved to convene a legislative summit on student loans and access to higher education with all stakeholders in the education sector. This […]