archiveSeptember 5, 2023

Mr Wale Adedayo, the suspended Chairman of the Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, has said that he remains unshaken and has no regrets for demanding that Gov Dapo Abiodun allow the local governments in the state to have access to federal allocations meant to develop the grassroots....

  President Bola Tinubu has arrived in New Delhi, the capital of India, for a six-day official visit, during which he will attend the G-20 Leaders’ Summit amongst other engagements. The Boeing 737 conveying the President and his entourage, touched down at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, at about...

  The Acting Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that the bank was making plans to clear the foreign exchange (FX) backlogs in the next one or two weeks. Shonubi, who disclosed this at a conference in Lagos on Monday, said the process will be facilitated with the...

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has vowed to overhaul the entire mass transit system in the nation’s capital, Abuja. Wike stated this on Tuesday when he received members of the House of Representatives Adhoc Committee to investigate failure of mass transit in Nigeria in his...

  Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has stated that the decision of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, (tribunal), is not final ahead of the judgment slated for Wednesday. Speaking on Channels TV’s programme, Politics Today, Falana explained that any party who is dissatisfied with the decision tribunal come Wednesday...

The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has revealed that the protest launched against the fuel subsidy removal during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 was mere politics. Fayemi stated this while delivering his keynote address at a national dialogue organised to celebrate the...

  The Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday, September 5, said it has received reports from some state governments relating to the diversion or sale of palliatives meant for their citizens. Consequently, the Nigerian secret police said it undertook investigations and recovered some of the items as well as...

A member of the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee, Tolu Bankole, has expressed strong conviction that the outcome of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to be declared on Wednesday will be in favour of President Bola Tinubu. Bankole’s vote of confidence was a reaction to viral reports in the...

  Former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, has said it would be unfair of him to criticise President Bola Tinubu over current economic hardship being faced by Nigerians. Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), spoke during a virtual religious event on Sunday. He said he...

  Nigeria is set to play host to 54 African nations and other continental Internet governance stakeholder blocs at the 2023 Africa Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF 2023) in Abuja from 18th to 21 September, 2023. This year’s event, being the 12th edition of the annual forum, is being hosted by...