archiveJune 4, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, the new Appropriation Bill recently passed into law by the National Assembly. Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Umar I. El-Yakub, who made this known in a statement, said the new law repeals the Appropriation Law...

The Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has slammed Presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu over his recent outburst in Ogun State. Addressing the All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates in Abeokuta on Thursday, Tinubu claimed to be behind the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as the President in 2015. He also revealed how he...

The Nigerian Exchange’s NGX All-Share Index and Market Capitalization depreciated by 2.18 per cent to close the week at 52,908.24 and N28.523 trillion respectively. Similarly, all other indices finished lower with the exception of the NGX-Insurance, NGX AFr Div Yield and NGX Growth index which appreciated at 0.83%, 0.58% and...

  President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday travel to Accra, Ghana to attend an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government on the political situation in Mali and other parts of the sub-region. The president’s spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this via a statement on...

The Ogun State Governmrnt has clarified that a social media post by Governor Dapo Abiodun was not a reaction to the statement made by the National Leader and presidential aspirant of All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinub, during his recent visit to party delegates in the state. Tinubu while speaking on...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the 2023 general election regulations and guidelines. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at a special meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security ICCES, called to review the security arrangements for the Ekiti state governorship...

The ruling All Progressives Congress presidential aspirants from the South-West are expected to hold a final meeting in Abuja today (Saturday) to decide on the way forward. This is according to Saturday PUNCH report. The seven presidential aspirants from the South-West are Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; APC stalwart, Bola Tinubu; Governor...

  The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) might disqualify 10 out of its 23 presidential aspirants ahead of its national convention starting on Monday, June 6, 2022. The Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led presidential screening panel made this revelation when it submitted its report to the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee...

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said that when he opposed the plan to foist a Muslim-Muslim presidency on Nigeria in 2014, he acted in the national interest with the belief that Nigeria is bigger than anybody’s ambition, including that of Bola Tinubu. Saraki was responding to Tinubu’s speech in...

    The Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital Yaba, Lagos, has partnered with the University of Maryland Psychiatric Research Centre (MPRC) US, to research on the safety of ‘clozapine’ therapy among black people. The Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Olugbenga Owoeye, made this known at a news conference organised by the...