archiveJuly 2023

  Over one week after their resignation as members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu and Senator Iyiola Omisore were at the Aso Villa in Abuja on Tuesday. Both men, however, quietly left the Presidential Villa and did not brief...

Governor Ademola Adeleke has appointed 30 Special Advisers to strengthen state governance even as tommorow Wednesday has been fixed for the inauguration of Advisers, Board Chairmen and Vice Chairmen. The Governor has also secured approval for five more Special Advisers in addition to the previously approved 25 to make a...

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has criticized the Department of State Services (DSS) for the ill-treatment of the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday, July 25. The Federal High Court in Abuja had granted Emefiele bail of N20 million earlier on Tuesday following his...

Vice President Kashim Shettima has disclosed that Nigeria has mobilised more than half a billion dollars for an innovative, profitable, equitable and sustainable food system transformation initiative. Olusola Abiola, Director, Information, Office of the Vice President, in a statement, said that Shettima made this known while chairing a high-level meeting...

The Lagos State People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran popularly called Jandor has described the plan of the state government to conduct mass burial for 103 victims of the year 2020 End-SARS protest as a vindication of panel report on Lekki...

The House of Representatives in a resolution on Tuesday urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to order electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to discontinue extortive estimated/arbitrary billing with immediate effect. This comes the sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Afuape Moruf  (APC-Ogun) at plenary on Tuesday. Moruf...

  The Lamido of Adamawa, Dr. Muhammadu Mustapha, has commended the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on a range of its telecom consumer protection initiatives, including the recent Village Square Dialogue (VSD), which held at the weekend in Yola, Adamawa State. Kakakin Adamawa, Prof. Abubakar Tahir, who represented Lamido Adamawa at...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has rearrested Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), after a physical fight with officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS). The DSS operatives took custody of Emefiele after a scuffle with prison officials over the custody of Emefiele,...

The Sterling One Foundation and the United Nations Nigeria, co-conveners of the Africa Social Impact Summit 2023, have officially unveiled partners for the second edition of the Africa Social Impact Summit. The announcement made at a press conference held in Lagos, Nigeria, also featured an official announcement of the 10th...

  A panel is set to discuss the implications of digital culture for democracy during the public presentation of a book by the Head of Media Relations at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Omoniyi Ibietan, on Tuesday, 25 July 2023, the publishers of the book have said. The panel discussion...