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The Abia House of Assembly has sworn in Aaron Uzodike of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as lawmaker for Aba North State Constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly.  Recall that a Lagos state court of appeal had on November 27, 2023 declared Uzodike, winner of the March 25, 2023 Abia state Assembly election and further ordered the immediate withdrawal of the Certificate of Return earlier issued to Destiny Nwagwu of the Labour […]

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, has alleged that sponsors of the End Bad Governance protest were plotting to undermine the nation’s democracy.   Alake stated this yesterday shortly after the Council of State meeting, which was attended by former Chief Justices of the Federation, former Presidents and past Heads of State, including Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari who were physically present while Yakubu Godwin and Abdulsalami Abubakar joined […]

The Nigerian Senate has vehemently denied allegations that it is involved in determining its salaries and allowances or received special fiscal packages from the Presidency. The claim, which reportedly emerged during a recent visit by members of the House of Representatives to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has sparked widespread public debates. However, the Senate Spokesman, Yemi Adaramodu, in a statement released yesterday in Abuja, described the allegations as an attempt […]

The Federal Government has lifted the suspension on the operations of Arik Air, barely a week after the airline was grounded.  The Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), MICHAEL ACHIMUGU, disclosed this in a statement on X, saying that the dispute between Atlas Petroleum and Arik Air which necessitated the grounding of the airlines operations has been resolved.  He added that Arik Air passengers can now check-in […]

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General CHRISTOPHER MUSA, has charged ECOWAS Defense Chiefs to always uphold democratic values.  General MUSA, who gave the charge yesterdayat the 42nd Ordinary Meeting of the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff in Abuja,lamented military takeover in some West African countries, saying it has created unintended consequences and threatened democratic values in the region.  He also stressed the need to put an end to the threat of military […]

In pursuance of a peaceful atmosphere during the planned nationwide protest, the Commissioner of Police in Enugu state, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, has reiterated the need to shelve the plan due to the available intelligence that reveals the sinister plans of criminal elements to hijack the protest and unleash mayhem on innocent citizens, public and private property in the State.  Uzuegbu during interactive meetings with traditional and religious leaders, president-generals of communities, markets, […]

The Nigerian Senate has frowned at the 4.2 billion Naira allocated as personnel cost in the 2024 budget, for unverifiable workers at the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited. Allegation of unverifiable workers at the non-functional steel company was brought to bare during an investigative hearing yesterday on alleged incidences of corruption and inefficiency in Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited and National Iron Ore Mining Company from 2002 to date, by an ad […]

The federal government through the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Abubakar, has called on the organisers of the proposed protest to shelve the idea and come to a roundtable to dialogue with the Federal Government.  Abubakar, who made the call yesterday, in a statement signed by the Ministry's Director of Information and Public Relations, Henshaw Ogubike, said President Bola Tinubu's reforms as enshrined in the Renewed Hope Agenda, have started yielding […]