archiveJanuary 5, 2022

Olisa Agbakoba, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has the power to regulate electoral processes in the country. The national assembly had transmitted the electoral amendment bill to President Muhammadu Buhari on November 19, with recommendations on the electronic transmission of results and direct...

The Federal Government has gazetted a court judgement that ordered it to declare bandits as terrorists. The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), gazetted the court judgement on Wednesday. It will be recalled that Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had...

The mother of the deceased 12-year-old student, Sylvester Oromoni, has called on higher spiritual powers to avenge the death of her son. Sylvester was a student of Dowen College, Lekki before his untimely death. Reports that he was bullied and made to swallow a “chemical stuff”, went viral after his...

  The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has reacted to a press statement from the South-West Governors Forum condemning the alleged humiliation of Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwoolu by a Chief Superintendent of Police. On Tuesday, the CSP openly defied the order of Gov. Sanwo-Olu, to vacate the...

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has criticized the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a new economic adviser. President Buhari on Tuesday approved the appointment of Dr. Doyin Salami as his Chief Economic Adviser. This online news platform reports that Dr. Salami was the Chairman of the Presidential...

Kingmakers of Ibadan known as the Olubadan-in-Council have endorsed the nomination of a former senator, Lekan Balogun, as the next Olubadan of Ibadan land. However, only 10 out of the 11 members of the council appointed Balogun.The council has also denied that a legal tussle could scupper the succession to...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the Board and Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, in accordance with the power vested in him under Section 59(2) of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021. The Chairman of the Board is Senator Margret Chuba Okadigbo (South East), Mele Kolo Kyari,...

The Okaa Omee Youth Club of Nigeria is to honour Maureen Chigbo, publisher of Realnews Magazine Online along with Ike Oligbo, a lawyer and politician, and others with its Merit Award on January 8. Among those to also receive the merit award at the ceremony, which will take place at...

  The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) is getting ready to publish the names of 7,912 debtors owing it a total of N4.4 teillion, as the 30-day ultimatum given by the National Assembly to debtors to regularise their debt status with the bad debt manager expires. The one-month notice...

Even as the world is grappling with the highly infectious Omicron, strain of Covid, scientists in France have identified a potentially worrying new variant, which it said to have 46 mutations. Named IHU, the new B.1.640.2 variant has so far infected 12 people living in southeastern France, according to independent.co.uk....