archiveJuly 2022

    The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the leasing of three aircraft by the country’s national carrier, known as ‘Nigeria Air’ to enable it to commence operations. Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation, said this on Wednesday while briefing journalists after the federal executive council meeting presided over by...

The Nigerian Army has said it found and rescued two women who were part of the female students abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibiok, Borno State, more than eight years ago. In a statement on Wednesday, the army disclosed that troops of 202 battalion...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has told security agencies in the country to be alert and do more to stop the heightening spate insecurity across states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) perpetrated by terrorists. This was even as he charged political leaders to be alive to their responsibility...

  Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has written off statements credited to terrorists in a recent viral video threatening to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and the Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El Rufai as laughable. Mohammed who briefed State House correspondents shortly after the Federal Executive Council...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has apologized for a post he made on social media on Tuesday depicting him taking classes in a university in the United States of America, while universities in his home country, Nigeria, have been shut for about five months due to the...

Justice A. O. Adeyemi Ajayi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama Abuja, on Wednesday reserved ruling on the bail application of suspended Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) Ahmed Idris and his co-defendants: Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Kudu Usman till Thursday, July, 28, 2022. The trio were arraigned alongside...

Senators mainly of the minority block and one All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker on Wednesday called for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari over the alleged worsening insecurity in the country. They gave President Buhari six weeks to curb insecurity or face a formal notice of impeachment from them. The...

    as World Bank tasks FG on data protection   No fewer than 250 stakeholders, Wednesday, unanimously gave their nod to the steps towards enacting a principal Data Protection law for Nigeria. Rising from a two-day Policy Dialogue on Nigeria’s Data Protection law, held in Abuja, the participants were...

The National Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has nominated Senator Ibrahim Gobir representing Sokoto East as the new Senate Leader and Chairman of the APC caucus in the Senate. The party’s decision was contained in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and signed...

  proceeds on annual recess till Sept. 20   The Senate, on Wednesday, resolved to summon the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, to educate and inform senators in a closed session on the reasons for the rapid depreciation of the value of the naira. It...