President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a special envoy to President Cyril Ramaphosa, to register his displeasure over the killing of Nigerians in South Africa. In a statement just released by the Presidency in Abuja, it said the envoy was expected to land in Pretoria by Thursday. The statement, which wasContinue Reading
The Nigeria High Commission in South Africa has responded to the recent attacks on foreigners including Nigerians and their businesses by South Africans. The High Commissioner, Ambassador Kabiru Bala in a statement on Tuesday urged all Nigerian victims in South Africa to come forward to report their situation to theContinue Reading
South Africa’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Bobby Monroe, has denied reports of Xenophobic attacks in his country. Monroe denied that the attacks in South Africa are xenophobic and targetted at Nigerians. The Commissioner made the comments at a media briefing with Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry headed by Geoffery Onyeama. HeContinue Reading
There appears to be uncertainty over the temporary delay suffered by the gubernatorial primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State over lingering court cases in a State High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Capital. Dailypost, gathered that the PDPContinue Reading
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state capital on Monday upheld the election of Governor David Umahi even as it struck out the suit filed by the People’s Democratic Movement (PDP) against the election. The PDP had dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court forContinue Reading
A rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), alongside 6,721 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to restrain, prevent and stop the National Assembly Service Commission from paying or releasing the sum of N5.550 billion budgeted for purchase of luxuryContinue Reading
Speaking on alleged non-performance of Governor Yahaya Bello in Kogi state, the former governor of Lagos state said: “If you don’t have complaints in politics, then there is no democracy, so we only pay attention to the noise in the market because we have so many apples, oranges and variousContinue Reading
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has lambasted his counterpart from Kano State, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje over plans to drag him to court, saying he is not a dollar bill which Ganduje can “pocket sheepishly and recklessly”. Ganduje was reported to have threatened to institute legal action against Wike, following claimsContinue Reading
A Chinese building materials company Sinoria FABCOM, has announced plans to float a fiber cement board manufacturing factory in Abuja. Deputy General Manager of Sinoria FABCOM, Mr. Jackie Dai Hui made this known to journalists in Abuja. He also noted that a few years from now many companies in ChinaContinue Reading
The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has vowed to expose and prosecute all the brains behind the contract whose alleged breach led to the $9.6billion British court judgment against Nigeria. Acting Chairman of the commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, said in Kaduna that the EFCC had gone far in its investigationContinue Reading
