The President, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has observed that the continued abduction of schoolchildren and others going on in the country is an abuse on the sensibility of Nigerians. He called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to rise up to the task and save theContinue Reading
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has said that the level of borrowing being made by the Buhari- led administration is not unreasonable and is equally not high. Speaking at a media briefing at the State House Abuja on Thursday while reacting to criticism regarding high levels of borrowing byContinue Reading
The Commissioner of Police, Rivers State, Eboka on Friday dissolved a special police team codenamed the Eagle Crack Squad. The squad recently came under scrutiny following allegations of extortion and professional conducts against its members. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni, said the commissioner of policeContinue Reading
A former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark has addressed Nigeria as a failed state, stating that the 1999 constitution Nigeria is currently operating is a scam. The South-south leader disclosed this during a National Restructure Actualisation Summit (RAS) in Abuja. According to Clark, the peopleContinue Reading
A High Court sitting in Owerri presided over by Justice F. Njemanze has granted an application filed by Louis Alozie (SAN), seeking interim forfeiture of all properties allegedly illegally acquired by immediate past Governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha. The suit, with case No. HOW/191/202, had the former Governor’s wife, Mrs. NkechiContinue Reading
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has refused to grant Abdulrasheed Maina, a former Chairman of defunct Pension Reformed Task Force Team (PRTT) bail. Recall that the court, on November 18, 2020, revoked Maina’s bail and ordered his arrest after he jumped bail. The court also granted the EFCC’s request thatContinue Reading
The funeral of the seven Nigerian Air Force officers who died in the Sunday air crash has commenced at the National Cemetery, Lugbe, Airport Road, Abuja. The men died in the Beechcraft King Air B350i which crashed a short distance from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, after reporting engineContinue Reading
The hope of Nigerians having early access to the use of vaccines for the prevention of COVID-19 pandemic appears dashed as federal government has claimed it cannot be specific when the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines will arrive the country. Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, told journalists at theContinue Reading
At last, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has officially met with the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, where it handed over the affairs of the opposition in the House of Representatives to him. The National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDPContinue Reading
Members of the House of Representatives were, on Tuesday, divided over a bill seeking to allow states to individually determine the minimum wage suitable for them. Presently, the Federal Government maintains the exclusive powers to negotiate and determine the national minimum wage for workers across the three tiers of governmentContinue Reading
