archiveFebruary 2022

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa on Friday, February 25, 2022, commended the EFCC Community Development Service Anti- corruption Group of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, for their support in the fight against economic and financial crimes. Bawa offered the commendation through...

  another batch of about 200 expected in Budapest The Nigerian Government has announced that its embassies across Eastern Europe have started receiving Nigerians from Ukraine following the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war. This was disclosed in an updated statement by Ambassador Gabriel Aduda, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The...

  By Ola Awoniyi The happy ending of Electoral Act No.6 2010 (amendment) Bill 2022, which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on February 25 after much apprehensions, reminds one of the Petroleum Industry Bill, aka PIB. For almost two decades, the PIB was at the National Assembly,...

  calls for Youth Voter Registration   One of the initial advocates of Anap Foundation, Tomiwa Aladekomo, National Chair, Youth Party informed that this initiative is expected to encourage the youths to register and pick up their voter’s card to participate and vote in the 2023 general elections, which has...

Liverpool has won the Carabao Cup, for a record ninth time, after dramatic 22-penalty shootout against Chelsea. The decider was when Kepa, brought on by Thomas Tuchel late in extra-time to replace Mendy, sent his kick sky high. Kepa Arrizabalaga, considered Chelsea penalty specialist-keeper, did not save one of Liverpool’s...

The Presidency said on Sunday the National Assembly and the Executive would reach a consensus on the contentious Section 84 of the newly signed Electoral Act. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, stated this in a statement titled: “Assent into Law of the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that Nigeria’s social safety net, which was created to support poor and vulnerable people in the country, suffers from limited coverage and weak targeting. The IMF said this in its ‘Nigeria Staff Report for the 2021 Article IV Consultation’ report. According to the...

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Grace Most Revd. Ignatius Kaigama has called on Muhammadu Buhari to listen to the cries of Nigerians and intensify action to resolve the problem of lingering fuel scarcity and the one-month warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The eminent cleric...

  Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Goeffrey Onyeama, said the Federal Government was coordinating with foreign missions both in Russia and Ukraine to evacuate Nigerians from Ukraine back home for safety. Aside from Russia and Ukraine, Onyeama said that the government was also coordinating with Nigeria’s foreign missions in Poland,...

  The United States, United Kingdom and European Union, on Saturday, have agreed to cut off some Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. This new sanction, contained in a joint statement, is expected to cripple the Russian financial sector, as Russia is heavily reliant on the...