archiveAugust 21, 2023

THE Kano State Police Command has banned all protests in the state with immediate effect. The command, in a statement on Monday, August 21, signed by the Commissioner of Police (CP) Mohammad Usaini Gumel, said intelligence received by the command indicates that two dominant parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC)...

To help parents and wards cope with the economic hardship that attended the Federal Government’s removal of the petrol subsidy, the Kaduna State government has decided to reduce the tuition fees of some tertiary institutions in the state. The state Governor Senator Uba Sani who gave the directive stressed that...

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe has called on the Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum, NeFF to come with solutions to the challenges posed by electronic fraud to financial system. According to a report published in Vanguard Newspaper, she made this call in Lagos while speaking at...

  Author: Dr. Omoniyi P. Ibietan Publisher: Premium Times Books Year: 2023 Pages: 460 Reviewer: Azu Ishiekwene Date: July 25, 2023, Abuja, Nigeria   My job today is to review the book, and not the man. But since the man made the book, I would, to slightly paraphrase Oscar Wilde,...

The Nasarawa State government and the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) are set to partner on a lithium processing policy that would ensure that Lithium mined in the State is processed locally instead of exporting it raw. According to press statement signed by Mr. Olusegun Ayeoyenikan, Director,...

  President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, charged the 45 newly sworn-in Ministers of the country to prioritise the interests and welfare of the entire nation and its diverse population, above any regional or state-specific considerations. Speaking at the inauguration of new members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the...

The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) raised alarm on Sunday over alleged attempts by some politicians to undermine election tribunal cases through corrupt practices. The TMG Chairman, Mr Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani) who expressed the concern via a statement also condemned in strong terms the Federal Government for pulling down the...

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has said that petrol consumption in the country dropped to 52 million litres in July 2023. According to a Vanguard report, the Authority reported that petrol consumption in the country dropped by 16.8% last month to 52 million litres daily compared...

Legal luminary, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has called on the newly appointed Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, to urgently carry out reforms in the nation’s judiciary. According to him, “Major reforms of the criminal justice system with particular reference to the utter confusion in the duplicated work...