archiveJuly 2019

Petitioners’ second witness at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Mr. Peter Uzioma Obi, on Monday, said it was wrong to say the results of the February 23, 2019 presidential election were not transmitted electronically. Obi took the witness stand at the instance of the Peoples Democratic Democratic Party and its...

  President Muhammadu Buhari in Niamey, Niger Republic signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, making Nigeria the 53rd state on the continent to append its signature to the document. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, the president signed the agreement at exactly 10.47...

    The Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC), on Saturday, said it had begun the withdrawal of the two batches of its 75 centilitre Eva table water produced between May 22 and 23, this year, following the detecting of a defect in the product. Following the discovery of the defect, NBC...

President Muhammadu Buhari in Niamey, Niger Republic signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, making Nigeria the 53rd state on the continent to append its signature to the document. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, the president signed the agreement at exactly 10.47 am...

  A civil rights organisation, Coalition of Public Interest Lawyers and Advocates (COPILA) has expressed concern over the verdict of the Supreme Court which affirmed the victory of governor Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to the organisation, by that action the apex court has “substantially spat...

    *Wants Kaduna-Kano rail line constructed     The new leadership of Nigerian National Assembly has been urged to revive and accelerate the passage of the Nigerian Railway Law Reform Bill which seeks to amend the outdated 1955 law establishing and regulating the Nigerian Railway Corporation. A continental railway...

    *FG, States collaborating to get over 10m out-of-school into classrooms *About N200B UBEC funds available this year * How Buhari administration is driving State, LG governments to take basic education more seriously “…we have with the collaboration of State governments, undertaken an ambitious programme to get the over...

The Northern Governors Forum has condemned the killing of 25 people in Agatu, Benue. The people were killed on Sunday at a Church service at Okokolo Village of Agatu Local Government Area of the state. The forum in a statement by its Chairman, Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau,described the killings...

  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has promoted 1,924 Junior Cadre personnel of the service, the Customs’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, disclosed in Abuja on Friday. Attah in a statement explained that 51 Assistant Inspector of Customs (AIC) were promoted to Inspector of Customs (IC) General Duty, while...

Manchester United’s Paul Pogba is ready to leave the English Premier League (EPL) side in the summer with a transfer “in the process”, the French midfielder’s agent Mino Raiola says. Pogba, who moved to Manchester United from Juventus in 2016 for a then-world record fee of 89.3 million pounds, has...