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Suspended Accountant-General released from EFCC custody The suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has been released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a N174 billion fraud. Idris was released on bail from the custody of the anti-graft agency on Wednesday night in Abuja and … [Read more…]
Like Niger Delta, bandits, herdsmen should get their own ministry: Sheik Gumi Islamic cleric Sheikh Gumi has called for the establishment of the Ministry of Nomadic Affairs to address the grievances of bandits and herders terrorising the country. The event was jointly organised by Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) and Northern Consensus … [Read more…]
Enugu 2023: Mbah, Enugu PDP guber candidate, meets former PDP gubernatorial aspirants, promises inclusive government The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Enugu State 2023 gubernatorial election, Mr Peter Mbah, has promised to run an all-inclusive government. He made this known while holding reconciliatory meetings with governorship aspirants of the party and former aspirants … [Read more…]
Less than one week to the presidential primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), many aspirants have been gripped with anxiety over the outcome of the exercise as against the camp of the Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello which has been upbeat ahead of the exercise. The development followed the outcome of President Muhammadu … [Read more…]
Mr Kabiru Musa, Charge d’ Affairs of the Nigerian Mission in Libya said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. Musa said that the 166 evacuees departed Mitiga International Airport, Tripoli and were expected to arrive in Nigeria via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. … [Read more…]
The Federal Government said, yesterday, it has put measures in place to address rising cost of food across the country, and plans to convene a meeting of the National Food Security Council shortly. The government also disclosed that it has lined up concrete actions to ensure the growth of some sectors of the nation’s economy … [Read more…]
Breaking News: APC govs’ meeting deadlocked as search for consensus candidate begins Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have begun the search for a consensus presidential candidate. A source privy to the first meeting of the governors told our correspondent that the meeting ended in a deadlock. “No agreement yet. Meeting … [Read more…]
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged governors of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to avail him the privilege of picking the next president as they were allowed to pick their successors. He said this when he had audience with the 22 governors and the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, yesterday. In a part … [Read more…]
It is mixed blessing for the Nigerian economy as prices of crude oil further soared on Tuesday, 24 hours after the leaders of the European Union (EU) countries reached an agreement to ban 90 per cent of Russian energy imports by the end of the year. The 27-nation organisation has spent weeks haggling over a … [Read more…]
Bruce Fein, the United States-based lawyer of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has written to the Ohanaeze Ndigbo. He warned the group not to sit on the legal fence, noting that Nigeria plans to imprison Kanu indefinitely without trial. In the letter, Bruce Fein of Bruce Fein Law Firms, Washington … [Read more…]
As part of its contribution to address insecurity in Nigeria, the United Nations, UN, yesterday charged Nigerian leaders to intensify their approach towards taming insecurity in the country. This is even as the UN advocated that one of the best approaches to address issues bordering insecurity in Nigeria was to adopt a preventive security deployment … [Read more…]
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has explained why the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr Samuel Uche; the Methodist Bishop of Owerri, Rt Rev Okechukwu Michael and the Prelate’s Chaplain were released within 24 hours after their kidnap by unknown gunmen suspected to be herdsmen along the Lokpa axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. … [Read more…]