archiveJune 2020

The Senate is probing over N1.8 trillion Federal Government interventions in the Power Sector since privatisation of the sector from 2012 to date. Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Sen. Gabriel Suswam made this known at a meeting with members of the Committee on Thursday in Abuja. The meeting was on...

   Kaduna State Government says it's working out modalities on safe reopening of the state. The state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftancy Affairs, Jafaru Sani, said this shortly after a closed door meeting with traditional rulers chaired by Gov. Nasir El-Rafa’i in Kaduna. He said the meeting was aimed...

Manufacturers have praised efforts of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on planned disbursement of N93.2 billion out of N1 trillion intervention fund targeted at manufacturing and agribusiness sectors for economic recovery, post COVID-19. Dr Muda Yusuf, Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), in an interview with News...

Two police officers have been suspended after attacking two Australian journalists, who were covering the George Floyd protests in Washington D.C., the U.S. Park Police (USPP) said on Thursday.On Monday, 7NEWS U.S. correspondent Amelia Brace and cameraman Tim Myers were attacked by police officers during their coverage of riots near...

The Lagos State Government will soon unveil a reform that will include the reversal of the Land Use Charge (LUC) to the pre-2018 rate, Commissioner for Finance, Dr Rabiu Oluwo has said. Olowo disclosed this on Wednesday, during the 2020 Ministerial Press Briefing to mark the first year in office...

Ebonyi Governor David Umahi has directed the shutting down of all government offices in the state with immediate effect to pave way for decontermination. He said the order became imperative followed the contraction of COVID-19 by some Executive Council members. Umahi gave the directive in a statement by the Commissioner...

The former governor of old Ondo State, Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua is dead. The elder statesman was 80-years-old. It was gathered that the second civilian governor of the State passed on in the early hours of Thursday in his country home, in Ikere-Ekiti. A close member of the family in Ekiti...

  The Senate committee on public accounts, on Wednesday, queried the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over an alleged missing $3.3 billion (approx. N1.2 trillion). The amount was said to be unaccounted for from the $21.3 billion remitted to the apex bank by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) as...

Justice Mathias Agboola of the Osun State High Court sitting in Oshogbo, on Wednesday ruled that the name State of Osun is strange to the Nigerian Constitution. According to the judge, Constitutionally, the State of Osun does not exist as it not known to the nation’s Constitution. The judge made...

  For those who were familiar with Chief Alex Akinyele during his life time, the mention of his name, naturally evoked different meanings and feelings at different times and settings. When the news of his passage hit the airwaves last week, my mind raced back to the encounter I had...