archiveJuly 17, 2023

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the  resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdulahi Adamu, and the Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore. The Deputy National Chairman, North, Senator Abubakar Kyari, made the announcement after the meeting of the NWC held on...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has said it recovered N471.82 billion as cumulative repayment from the bank’s intervention programmes in the first half of 2022. According to the apex bank’s half-year report for 2022, the recovery rate rose by 67.3 per cent from N282.3 billion in the preceding half...

  The Nigerian Bar Association, human rights activists, and civil society groups have called on the Federal Government to uphold the principles of the rule of law, fairness, and justice in the case against the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. According to Vanguard’s report, they...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has increased the tenure of the Managing Director/Chief Executive of banks from maximum from 10 years of 12 years. This was disclosed in a circular on the new, “Corporate Governance Guidelines for Commercial, Merchant, Non-interest and Payment Service Banks in Nigeria.” The circular...

  The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed on Monday that Nigeria’s annual inflation rate rose by 0.38 per cent to 22.79 per cent in June from 22.41 per cent in May. The NBS said on a year-on-year basis, the headline inflation rate was 4.19 per cent points higher compared...

  BudgIT, a foremost civic-tech organization leading the advocacy for accountability, transparency, and effective service delivery in Nigeria, is set to host the second edition of the Active Citizens Awards. This year’s award, themed ‘Trailblazers of Change: Pioneering Solutions, Shaping the Future,’ is scheduled to hold on Saturday, September 16,...

Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, to drop plan to spend N40 billion on 465 bulletproof cars for members and principal officials, and N70 billion as ‘palliatives’ for new members. SERAP urged them to repeal...

  Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has said that age should not be viewed as a barrier to achieving educational goals, adding that one of the requirements he had to meet in order for his desire to become governor in 2022 to be approved was that he finish his...

The Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology has revealed that the Federal Government has approved 9,000 licensed filling stations for the co-location of Compressed Natural Gas or autogas fuel dispensers. Amid the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, rising to N500 per litre from N189, alternatives are...

A constitutional lawyer, Mr Kayode Ajulo, has urged President Bola Tinubu to align the salaries of judges in Nigeria with that of senators. Ajulo said this in a statement on Monday. He decried the disproportionate remuneration of the judiciary compared to the other two arms of government despite the significance...