archiveMarch 2023

  The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has formally filed his petition to the elections tribunal to protest the outcome of the February 25 poll. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Chief Spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Yunusa Tanko. The statement read,...

  The Federal Government has concluded plans to arraign Tukur Mamu, a terrorist negotiator and a media aide to Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on a 10-count charge bordering on terrorism financing among others. According to a charge signed by M.B. Abubakar, Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation, Mamu will be...

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu has declared his intention to contest for Senate presidency in the 10th National Assembly, stressing “it is my turn”. Kalu, who has won re-election to represent Abia North in the Red Chamber, was the first aspirant to declare his interest in...

The European Union (EU) observers has knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for failing to live up to expectations in the electoral process of Nigeria. The Chief Observer, EU Election Observation Mission, Barry Andrews, in his preliminary statement of the EU EOM on the governorship and Houses of Assembly...

The public concourse at the Terminal C of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja is the first beneficiary of a Telecom Consumer Assistance, Resolution and Enquires (TELCARE) Centre unveiled by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) was as one of the series of events to mark the 2023 International Consumers Rights...

Nigeria’s Currency in circulation (CIC) in Nigeria dipped by 235.03 per cent to 982.09 billion at the end of February 2023 from 3.29 trillion announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in October 2022 on the heels of the Naira redesign policy. The latest figures from the apex bank...

Unilever Nigeria has disclosed that it will be exiting the home care and skin cleansing markets to reposition its business for sustained profitability. This was revealed in a corporate notice to the Nigerian Exchange Limited and signed by its Company Secretary, Abidemi Ademola. The company said that it was changing...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has set guidelines for the registration of the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) nationwide to check the high level of forgery of the A Level certificate used for the registration. In a press briefing on Monday in Abuja, JAMB’s Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede announced...

Legal luminary and respected elder statesman, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) has charged newly elected senators and members, House of Representatives from Ekiti State to use their new status to attract development to the state, using necessary connections and lobbying processes. Aare Babalola, who gave the charged in Ado Ekiti on...

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has likened attacks by thugs allegedly affiliated to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 18 governorship election in Lagos to war crimes. The PDP leader, in a statement on Monday, said the attacks were crimes...