archiveDecember 16, 2022

The Executive Director, Corruption Observatory and Public Awareness Initiative, Richard Ivie, has said that President Mohammadu Buhari is not fighting corruption according to global standards. Ivie made the assertion while speaking on Channels Television on Friday, December 16, saying that the Buhari administration has failed to protect whistleblowers. “The problem...

FIFA chief Gianni Infantino announced plans on Friday for a 32-team Club World Cup from 2025, despite reported opposition from Europe’s biggest clubs. An expansion of the competition has long been a pet project of Infantino’s. A 24-team event, featuring eight sides from Europe, was planned for 2021 in China...

  The Federal High Court, Abuja has granted an order stopping the National Assembly from screening and confirming the nominated chairman and Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Ms. Lauretta Onochie and Chief Samuel Ogbuku. It urged that all actions on the matter be suspended pending the...

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has ordered the arrest of the caterer who allegedly served poor quality food during the Christmas party for widows and the aged in the state. Umahi, who gave the order on Thursday did not disclose the name of the caterer, said it was terrible...

  gives assurance for a hitch free end of the year trips   The Federal Road Safety Corps has announced the commencement of its end of the year special patrol operations code-named 'Operation Zero' and assured the public of adequate mobilisation of personnel and logistics that will engender hitch free...

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has advised that the deployment of monetary tightening tools should be put on pause by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a means of galloping inflation ravaging the country. The advice is conained in a statement by Dr. Muda Yusuf,...

Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, Ademola Seriki, has died at the age of 63 years. According to a statement signed on Thursday by Seriki’s children, the diplomat died “peacefully surrounded by his family in Madrid, Spain.” “It is with heavy hearts and profound gratitude to Almighty Allah that we announce the...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has urged the Nigerian doctors and medical practitioners to leverage on the opportunities abound in brain drain syndrome to improve themselves. Abayomi gave the advice at the 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Association Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital...

The World Bank’s Nigeria Country Director, Shubham Chaudhuri has disclosed that in the last 30 months, Nigeria has borrowed $9 billion from the World Bank at highly concessionary rates. He made this known in Abuja on Thusday at the launch of the World Bank’s Nigeria Development Update (NDU) and Country...

The Army Council on Thursday approved the promotion of 122 senior officers from the ranks of Brigadier General to Major General and Colonel to Brigadier General respectively. The number comprises of 52 Brigadier Generals and 70 Colonels. Director Army Public Relations Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu who disclosed this in a...