archiveJuly 2021

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Mr. Bello Hassan has expressed the readiness of the Corporation to partner with the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) towards enhancing innovation in the delivery of services to depositors and its other stakeholders. The MD/CE made this...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that presiding officers of both chambers of the National Assembly are not in any position to determine the outcome of amendments to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill under consideration. Lawan made this known against the backdrop of insinuations and misgivings by some...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Kaduna Zonal office has arraigned one Matthew Adamu before Justice M. T. M Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna on a one count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence. The charge reads: “that you Mathew Adamu ‘M’ sometime in...

...tasks opposition party not to disrupt Oyo's peace with planned congresses A socio-political group in Oyo State, the Oyo Kajola Group (OKG), has warned the state's chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop fuelling insecurity and lies in its bid to take over the state by all means....

  Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has described the invasion carried out on the Ibadan residence of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, last Thursday by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) as a “nocturnal coup”. Falana made his view on the attack known on Channels Television’s...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that there would be an uproar in Nigeria if the truth of how Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu was arrested is made known. In an interview with BBC Pidgin on Monday, Soyinka said that he thinks Kanu was kidnapped and...

The Federal Government has insisted that the five National Integrated Power Plants (NIPPs) put up for sale will go on as planned. This follows the determination of the government to resuscitate these power plants and put them to full use for the benefit of Nigerians. According to a statement by...

The Ogun State government said it has postponed its investment summit which was scheduled to hold between July 13 and 14 2021 till further notice. In a release signed by the honourable Commissioner for Finance and Chief Economic Adviser, Hon Dapo Okubadejo, the state did not state the reason for...

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has asked the Federal Government of Nigeria to apologise to Sunday Igboho after officials of the Department of State Services (DSS)invaded his home and killed two of his associates and destroyed his belongings. The DSS invaded Igboho’s house in Ibadan, Oyo State, Thursday last week based...

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has hailed and told Southern Governors Forum to stand their ground and resist any attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari to take away lands belonging to Nigerians for private cow businesses. HURIWA said this while throwing its weight behind the decisions reached by the...