archiveMarch 2024

  The Spokesperson to Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State, Mallam Olawale Rasheed has approached the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo seeking for the protection and enforcement of his fundamental human rights against the State Security Service, Director General of the State Security Service, the Osun State Director of...

  The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Mr Ola Olukoyede has called for a change in some institutionalized ways of doing things in the country, stressing that Nigerians are not innately corrupt and would fare better in integrity with some positive systemic changes. He disclosed...

  The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the results of the first-ever Computer-Based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (CB-WASSCE) for Private Candidates, 2024–First Series, on Friday. The council recently commenced migration from traditional paper-based examinations to Computer-Based Examinations for its private candidates’ examinations. A statement by the...

  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has initiated a 90-day window, effective from 4th March 2024 to 5th July 2024, for the regularisation of import duties on specific categories of vehicles. Abdullahi Maiwada, spokesperson of the NCS, said in a statement on Friday that the directive is from the Honourable...

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has oppsedthe lifting of the foreign exchange restrictions placed on the importation of milk and dairy products by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), warning that it could result in the decline of local production. Dele Oye, NACCIMA’s...

The Chairman of the United Bank for Africa and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Tony Elumelu, has said that he was not interested in becoming the President of Nigeria. Elumelu said this on Friday while answering questions at the unveiling of the beneficiaries of its prestigious Entrepreneurship Programme...

  The Presidency on Friday said that President Bola Tinubu-led Federal government would save N5 billion quarterly from the ban of foreign trips for ministers, chiefs of government agencies, and other official travels paid with public funds. Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this while addressing...

  The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi, has expressed sadness over the death of three students of Nasarawa State University (NSUK) in a stampede while struggling for food palliatives. The incident was to have happened on Friday at the convocation square in Keffi, where the...

  The  Minister of Defence, Muhammed Badaru Abubakar, has assured that the abducted students of Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State will soon be rescued. He also said the killers of military officers and soldiers in Okuama community of Delta state will be fished out to face...

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on state governors that pay pension to former governors to emulate their Abia State counterpart, Alex Otti, and stop paying. He described payment of pension to former state governors and their deputies as outrageous. Obasanjo also described the pension as “a daylight robbery.:...