The Nigerian Bar Association has set up a fact finding team over the alleged killings in Oyigbo which has triggered a controversy. NBA President Olumide Akpata who made the announcement, said that while the Presidents of the professional association of lawyers in Ukwa and Port Harcourt expressed concern over the current situation, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers […]
Members of the Senate Committee on Federal Character have asked State House officials to restrain President Buhari from making any further medical trips abroad so as to ensure that the State House clinic becomes functional this year. The Committee gave the warning when the State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar, appeared before the panel to defend the 2021 budget estimates […]
A public affairs company, Gatefield Nigeria Limited, has sued Access Bank Plc for N100m for “unilaterally” freezing its account. The firm said the money that was frozen in its account was meant for mobilising independent journalists during the #EndSARS protests. The case was instituted before a Federal High Court in Abuja on October 28, 2020. […]
Democratic Presidential candidate, Joe Biden took significant strides towards winning the presidency on Wednesday. But the Trump campaign team vowed to reverse them at the vote count and in the courts, ushering in a potentially prolonged endgame to the election and sparking tension across the United States. Biden was called the winner in the critical […]
The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government ended in a stalemate for the third time on Wednesday, as the parties again failed to resolve the issues around the payment platform for salaries and other benefits. Besides, ASUU was insisting that the N30bn Earned Academic Allowances offered by the Federal […]
President Buhari has pledged his administration’s determination to end the estimated billing regime in electricity supply. President Buhari made the pledge via his Twitter handle today November 4. The President said the first phase of one million free meters distribution in some parts of the country is already underway. According to him, 6.5 million meters, which would […]
DEMOCRATIC candidate Joe Biden surged ahead as results of the United States Presidential election trickled in this morning. As of 5:00am, Biden had secured 209 Electoral College votes to President Donald Trump’s 118. For a candidate to win, he must secure 270 Electoral College votes. Results from battleground states with 96 Electoral College votes that […]
The CCTV cameras at the Lekki Toll Gate, where people were shot while protesting in Lagos, Nigeria, two weeks ago, didn’t capture the whole evening, according to the boss of the company that runs the gate. Abayomi Omomuwasan, the managing director of the Lekki Concession Company, told a judicial panel which is investigating the events […]
The West African Examinations Council, Nigeria, has relocated its Calabar, Cross River State branch office to the zonal office in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. A statement signed by acting Head of Public Affairs, WAEC, Demianus Ojijeogu, said the development was as a result of the vandalism, looting and burning down of the Calabar branch office […]
The Edo Government has relaxed the curfew imposed in the state following the violence that erupted in the state. Governor Obaseki’s Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie said the curfew will now hold from 10pm to 6am daily as against 6pm to 6am. The statement read; “The state government has further reviewed the curfew […]