The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, has admitted collecting N100 million from a governor. Governor Nyesom Wike had accused the party national chairman of corruption, saying aside the N100 million taken from the governor, Ayu also collected N1 billion from a Presidential aspirant in Lagos. Answering questions from journalists … [Read more…]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed the candidacy of Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party for the positions of President and Vice President respectively in the coming 2023 elections. Jonathan revealed this when a PDP delegation led by Okowa as well as Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State visited him in … [Read more…]
The Federal Government, on Thursday, gave an indication that it will approach the Supreme Court to challenge the Court of Appeal judgement that quashed the terrorism charge it preferred against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. Reacting to the judgement, FG, through the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister … [Read more…]
At last, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action conditionally, paving way for immediate resumption of academic activities. The decision was taken in the early hours of Friday during a meeting of its leadership that began on Thursday night. The meeting was called by the union to determine its … [Read more…]
The Kaduna State Police Command has ordered a full investigation on the rescued 65-year-old man who was locked up in a room for 20 years in Kaduna by yet to be identified offenders. It was gathered that environmental health officers under Kaduna North Local Government Area, who had earlier visited the scene of the incident … [Read more…]
…assures of free education from primary to secondary schools The 2023 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu state, Mr. Peter Mbah has dispelled rumors that he was investigated by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, or any anti-corruption agency for fraud, stating that he has a clean slate. Disclosing this … [Read more…]
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Thursday, quashed the terrorism charge the Federal Government preferred against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. It discharged and acquitted him of the seven-count charge pending against him before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The appellate court, in a decision by … [Read more…]
The Federal Government has failed in the oil and gas business and should get out of the sector, Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said. He said this on Thursday while speaking at KADINVEST, an annual event organised by the Kaduna State Investment Promotion Agency. Speaking on the theme of this year’s KADINVEST, ‘Building a … [Read more…]
A member of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, Tolu Bankole, on Wednesday said it would take someone with grits and strong will like the Presidential Candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu, to revive the power sector and ensure Nigerians enjoy steady electricity. Bankole made the bold claim in a statement issued … [Read more…]
The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has shifted hearing to March 7, 2023 in an application filed by the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, seeking to be joined in the appeal challenging the proscription of the group by the Federal Government. Kanu had, on September 5, 2022, filed … [Read more…]
The Federal Government has lined up 32 witnesses as it expressed readiness to prosecute the former minister of aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, and eight others accused of complicity in money laundering offences to the tune of N5 billion. Already, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court has ordered an accelerated … [Read more…]
Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has slammed levies of up to N100,000 on bereaved families who may want to paste obituary posters in any part of the state. Soludo, in a memo issued through the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Anambra State Signage and Advertisment Agency, Mr Odili Ujubuon͂u, said that the levies … [Read more…]