archiveOctober 2023

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has said the Nigerian judicial system was hanging on a balance following the disparaging of the integrity of the courts. The group raised dust over the Enugu State Tribunal verdict, which it noted some ‘critical deficiencies’ in the court’s...

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said global headline inflation is expected to steadily decline from its peak of 8.7 per cent in 2022 (annual average) to 6.9 per cent in 2023 and that the Nigeria’s economic growth is projected to decline from 3.3 per cent in 2022 to 2.9...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Tuesday, October 10, that about 5,409,438 registered voters are expected to vote in the forthcoming off-circle elections in Kogi, Imo, and Bayelsa states. The Commission is however yet to release the number of Permanent Voters cards collected in the three states ahead...

An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure, has struck out the suit instituted by the deputy governor of the state, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, for lack of jurisdiction and abuse of court processes. Aiyedatiwa had approached the court to stop the Ondo State House of Assembly from impeaching him for alleged...

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Ms Betta Edu, has said the federal government would suspend the N-Power programme indefinitely. Edu, who announced this during an interview with TVC News on Saturday, also said the ministry is currently investigating alleged irregularities since the programme’s inception. According to her,...

The Chairman, Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Prof. Samuel Edoumiekumo, is dead, a source close to the family of the deceased confided in the Punch correspondent on Saturday evening. Edoumiekumo, who was the immediate past VC of the Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, was said to have died on...

  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration has proposed November 2023 to launch the $617.7 million Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (i-DICE) programme. The target was set on Friday when Vice President Kashim Shettima met with the i-DICE Steering Committee in his office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. To ensure...

The NGX All-Share Index and Market Capitalization appreciated by 0.11 per cent and 0.49 per cent to close the week at 66,454.57 and N36.510 trillion respectively. Similarly, all other indices finished higher with the exception of NGX CG, NGX Premium NGX Insurance, NGX Lotus ll, NGX Industrial Goods, NGX Growth...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, October 6, 2023 continued the trial of one Wilson Daphey (a.ka.a Jefrey Guiseppe) before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on nine-count charges bordering on obtaining money under false pretence and money laundering. Daphey allegedly manipulated...

  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has expressed its readiness to engage in negotiations with the Federal Government for the peaceful separation of Biafra from Nigeria, under the supervision of the United Nations through a referendum The pro-Biafran faction claims that their peaceful campaign for Biafra’s independence commenced in...