archiveDecember 2024

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has hailed Nigeria’s achievements at the 2024 CAF Awards, calling it a significant boost to the country’s international profile. In a congratulatory message signed by his special adviser on media and publicity, Musa Abdullahi Krishi, the Speaker noted that sports and entertainment...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has disclosed that staff shortage is limiting its operations. NAFDAC’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. She explained that while NAFDAC was often associated with regulating substandard and falsified...

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has disclosed that crashed Sikorsky helicopter operated by Eastwind Aviation Logistics Services Limited, on 24 October 2024 was not fitted with a Flight Data Recorder (FDR). It would be ecalled that the helicopter crash which occurred on October 24, 2024, took place off the...

A former National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has called on former President Olusegun Obasanjo to rally other former leaders to rescue Nigeria ahead of the next general election. Lukman in a statement entitled, Satanic Leadership and Nigeria’s Boiling Point: Open Letter to former...

The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has congratulated Nigeria’s Atalanta forward and Super Eagles striker, Ademola Lookman, for winning the CAF Men’s Player of the Year Award. In a statement on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, Senator Akpabio also celebrated Super...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja to strike out an application filed by former Governor of the Central of Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, challenging the jurisdiction of the court. Through its counsel,...

Special Offences Court has fixed January 7 to rule on an application filed by former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele challenging the court’s jurisdiction to try him for alleged abuse of office. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) filed a 26-count charge against the former CBN governor over alleged $4.5...

The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, December 12, 2024 arraigned the duo of Ekpe Anayaoha Okoronkwo and Umeonuoha Onyinye, staff of one of the new generation banks, before Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Independence Layout, Enugu...

  A political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has urged prominent British-Nigerian politician, Kemi Badenoch to move on from her fixation on Nigeria. Badenoch has sharply divided Nigerians with some of her recent comments about the country, with Vice President Kashim Shettima accusing her of denigrating Nigeria. In a fresh incident, the...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President Bola Tinubu at the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over failure to direct the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), to work with appropriate anti-corruption agencies to probe allegations that over N57 billion...