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The First Lady of Nigeria Aisha Buhari yesterday presided over the 10th General Assembly of the Africa First Ladies Peace Mission at the State House in Abuja dedicated to peace, security, and mitigation of violent conflicts. In attendance at the gathering was the wife of the President-elect, Remi Tinubu; wives of Presidents and governors from other African countries as well as members of the diplomatic Corps. The wife of President […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP has filed a contempt suit against the Federal Government for failing to recover over 40 billion Naira double pay and life pensions from former governors who are serving as lawmakers and ministers. SERAP in a statement yesterday by its deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, recalled how Justice Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court, Lagos ordered the Federal Government in November 2019 to recover life […]
President Muhammadu Buhari will on May 22, 2023, inaugurate the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery expected to bring solutions to Nigeria’s perennial refining issues. The Special Assistant to the President on Digital Communications Bashir Ahmad who disclosed this in a tweet on his handle said efforts by the Federal Government to make Nigeria self-sufficient in local refining of crude oil to save the scarce foreign exchange used in the […]
The 9th Assembly yesterday approved the restructuring of the controversial 22.719 trillion naira ways and means advances, supposedly to ensure that the government does not shut down. The Senate gave the approval during the plenary session after considering a report from its ad hoc committee, which noted that the federal government repeatedly borrowed from the central bank of Nigeria in the process exceeding the five percent threshold of the previous […]
The Governor of Enugu State Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has announced a cash reward of 5 million Naira for any person or group that provides information to the Nigeria Police that would lead to the arrest of those involved in the murder of the former State Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party PDP and Governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA in the 2023 general election, Dons Udeh. Ugwuanyi, who […]
The Air Peace flight carrying over 270 Nigerian students from the Aswan Airport in Egypt landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, while the NAF C-130H jet conveying about 80 persons touched down moments later. After over a week of assurances by the Federal Government, the Nigerian evacuees were finally airlifted home, escaping the deadly conflict in Sudan which started on the 15th of April and has led to […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB has released the results of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME which was conducted between Tuesday, April 25 and Monday, May 1. The spokesperson for the examination body Fabian Benjamin yesterday in a statement said a total of 1,595,779 candidates registered to sit in 708 Computer Based Test CBT centers in 105 towns but the results excluded candidates who were rescheduled to […]
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM says the Nigerian Embassy in Egypt has successfully moved evacuees from the Sudanese side to the Egyptian side of the Arqeel Border following the ongoing conflict in Sudan. The commission yesterday evening stated further that the students were being prepared for their departure to Abuja through the Aswan Airport in Egypt and it was reported that as of 10:15 pm, Airpeace and the Nigerian […]
President Muhammadu Buhari Has reappointed Abike Dabiri-Erewa for a second term as the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM after she was first named in November 2018. The notice of her reappointment was contained in a letter written by the President to the 9th Assembly requesting the Upper Chamber to confirm her reappointment. Dabiri-Erewa was a member of the House of Representatives representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency in Lagos […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will commence afresh the prosecution of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, and three others at the Federal High Court, Abuja on alleged misappropriation of N4.6bn and money laundering. Counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo told Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court in Lagos that this move became necessary following last week’s judgment of the Court of Appeal, […]
