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A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi and his deputy, Eric Igwe, to vacate their seats as the sitting governor and deputy respectively, on grounds that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the election on March 2019 and not its candidate. Having defected to the All Progressives Congress […]

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on Wednesday demanding that Russia immediately end its military operations in Ukraine. Known informally as the world’s “town hall”, the Assembly is where all 193 UN Member States have a voice. A total of 141 countries voted in favour of the resolution, which reaffirms Ukrainian sovereignty, independence […]

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, says he is in the presidential to renew hope… Speaking in Ekiti, during a visit to the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe, on Thursday, Tinubu said  Nigeria needs a competent leader who can unite the people, tackle insecurity […]

  The House of Representatives has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to, in the public interest, introduce stringent regulations and guidelines including sanctions on the Point of Sale (POS) business operations nationwide. This followed the adoption of a motion moved by Jimoh Abdulraheem Olajide at plenary Thursday. Presenting the motion, Olahide said […]

The Senate is set to pass the 2022 amended budget next week as a bill seeking to amend the 2022 Appropriation Act scaled second reading yesterday. The bill seeks to amend the 2022 budget by making provision in the sum of N106,161,499,052 for Capital Expenditure and N43,870,592,044 for Recurrent Expenditure without increasing budget deficit. The […]

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a total sum of N3,523,592,079.60 for the procurement of security screening systems and the lighting of some airports in the country. Briefing newsmen after the weekly FEC meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, his spokesman, Laolu Akande, who stood in for the Minister of Aviation, said the […]

  The last may not have been heard about the controversy surrounding the proposed March 26 National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as South East leaders have rejected the position of deputy national chairman purportedly zoned to the region. At a well-attended meeting at the Imo Governor’s lodge Abuja, they opted for the party’s […]

It was gathered that the peace meeting of Yoruba leaders over reconciliation between Asiwaju Tinubu and Ogbeni Aregbesola was held at a private residence of the Alaafin of Oyo in Ibadan and it lasted about two hours. The primary objective of the monarchs was to resolve the minister’s rift with his benefactor. The meeting, it […]

  The Senate, yesterday, removed the railways, airports, electric power and Value Added Tax (VAT) from the exclusive legislative list and included them in the concurrent list. The Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution, had proposed a bill to put VAT in the exclusive legislative list but while voting on the report […]

The World Bank Group has said that around 2.4 billion women of working age are not afforded equal economic opportunity and 178 countries maintain legal barriers that prevent their full economic participation. This was highlighted in the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2022 report where its stated that in 86 countries, women face […]