archiveDecember 19, 2022

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed worries that if attacks on its facilities persist into January 2023, it could affect the conduct of the general elections. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC, Mr Festus Okoye, said this at a workshop on Political Violence and...

The Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has said that its embattled Director-General, Doyin Okupe has paid N13 million fine following his conviction by a Federal High Court Abuja on Monday. The PCC Media Officer, Diran Onifade made this known in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital ahead of the...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it recorded a total of 19,787 Road Traffic Crashes, RTCs, and 9,227 deaths in 2021 and 2022. The FRSC Acting Corps Marshal, Mr. Dauda Biu said this during a press briefing on Monday in Abuja. Biu said that a comparative analysis of RTCs...

  A group, Healing Heart Foundation, is to empower two widows with N50,000 each, and give food items to no fewer than 700 widows. The President of the foundation, Mrs Sophy Mbanisi, made this known during the “2022 Annual Mega Feast (Christmas party) for widows on Monday. The event was...

  The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, been drawn to comments credited to Olisa Agbokoba, SAN, in media reports of Monday, December 19, 2022, wherein he cast aspersion on the Commission’s commitment to rule of law and its investigation of the finances of the Kogi State...

  banks get guidelines to sell their 60% shares in DisCos to new investors VP receives RMAFC delegation, speaks at public presentation of “Musings of a Precant” in Lagos In a bid to provide succour and ensure the payment of the entitlements of ex-workers of aviation ground handling service provider...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reiterated its ban on smartphones at voting cubicles while participating in the forthcoming general elections. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said this on Monday at the commission’s Stakeholders Summit on Addressing the Influence of Money on the 2023 General Elections in...

    Justice Ijeoma Ojuwku of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Monday found Dr Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, guilty of receiving over N200 million cash from former National Security Adviser (NSA). Col. Sambo Dasuki. Justice Ojuwku in a...

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has tackled the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over what he described as an unwarranted media trial of the Kogi State government as regards the fresh case against a nephew of the Governor Yahaya Bello and the...

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday, disclosed that Twitter negotiated with the Nigerian Government in the wake of the suspension of the microblogging site. Mohammed made this clarification while reacting to the claim by a former senior Twitter official that there was no negotiation...