NATIONAL NEWS

The suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday approached the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, challenging his detention by the Department of State Services (DSS). In his originating motion on notice, Emefiele is praying for the court to enforce his right to liberty and freedom of movement, […]

Owing to regular occurrenc­es of floods in some parts of the country, the Federal Gov­ernment has directed states yet to submit reports on their vulnerability status to do so within one week. The directive was handed down to the affected states on Thursday, at the National Economic Council NEC meet­ing chaired by Vice President Kashim […]

The Independent Cor­rupt Practices and Other Related Offences Com­mission (ICPC) has again re-arraigned the former registrar of the Joint Ad­mission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde over allegations bordering on official cor­ruption, abuse of office and forgery. According to a press statement issued by the ICPC spokesperson Azuka Ogugua on Thursday, Mr Ojerinde was […]

President Bola Tinubu has met with elder statesmen Alhaji Tanko Yakasai and Chief Bisi Akande. He met the two statesmen separately at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday. The President also met separately with former Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi II. Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, Yakasai revealed that prior to Tinubu’s […]

In what is  seen as a major legal blow to former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, a Kaduna High Court has dismissed his libel and defamation suit against former Senator Shehu Sani who represented Kaduna Central senatorial district. The suit was thrown out by the trial judge, Justice H. Balogun, on the grounds that […]

The Nigeria Customs Service, on Thursday, destroyed 96 containers of various illicit and expired drugs worth N12.8bn in Lagos State. Addressing journalists in the Epe area of the state during the destruction of the contrabands, the Assistant Comptroller General of Customs, Adonye Dappa-Williams, said the goods were brought for destruction after court condemnation. Dappa-Williams said […]

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the appointment of Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) Frank Mba and Bala Ciroma as Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs). This was contained in a statement by the PSC spokesperson, Ikechukwu Ani, on Friday. According to him, DIG Ciroma will replace DIG Ali Janga who has retired […]

The National Economic Council (NEC) has set up an ad hoc committee on how to alleviate the suffering faced by Nigerian workers, following the removal of fuel subsidy. The council, according to a statement by the Office of the Vice President, on Friday, gave the committee two weeks to look into two scenarios suggested by […]

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday named eight persons as special advisers, said State House Director Information, Abiodun Oladunjoye. In a statement on Thursday, Oladunjoye said the President appointed Dele Alake as his Special Adviser of Special Duties, Communications and Strategy and Yau Darazo as Special Adviser on Political and Intergovernmental Affairs. Tinubu also named Nuhu […]

Labour Party (LP) and its candidate, Peter Obi, yesterday, accused the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmood of refusing to accept a subpoena issued on him to produce some vital documents used for the February 25 election before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC). The accusations which did not go down well […]