Kano State Government has vowed to institute a legal action against Rivers State Government over the demolition of Rainbow Town Central Mosque located at the Trans-Amadi Area of Port Harcourt. A press statement by Abba Anwar, Chief Press Secretary to Ganduje described the “sad story of Mosque demolition in RiversContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday assured international investors that bureaucratic bottlenecks militating against business in Nigeria are now being removed by his administration. Buhari, speaking at a meeting with top officials of the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation, and Toyota Group, on the sidelines of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference onContinue Reading
Explosion on Friday rocked the Abura Crude Trunkline purportedly operated by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC in Otu-Jeremi Community, Headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. The cause of the explosion, which happened around 4pm is still sketchy at the time of this report. Daily PostContinue Reading
The new US reciprocity visa fee for Nigerians will be in force for now. Nigerian Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, had announced reduced visa fees for Americans in response to reciprocity fee imposed on Nigerians by the US Embassy. However, a reliable source at the American embassy in Abuja saidContinue Reading
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from its South East Zonal office in Enugu State on Friday morning stormed Owerri, the Imo state capital arresting a number of cybercrime suspects. This is coming less than six days the anti-graft agents swooped on boys suspected to be into cybercrimeContinue Reading
The Queen has approved Boris Johnson’s request to suspend parliament from the middle of next month, which will restrict MPs’ ability to block a no-deal Brexit. In a move prompting a furious political row, parliament will be prorogued in the week beginning 9 September until 14 October. This is theContinue Reading
The Federal Government has approved the reduction of visa charges payable by US citizens in line with the reciprocity policy. This comes after the United States increased the cost of visa application for Nigerians. Nigerians are required to pay a fee called visa ‘issuance fee’, or ‘reciprocity fee’, for allContinue Reading
A human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) has advised the federal government to immediately appeal the order of a British court, seizing Nigeria’s foreign assets to satisfy a $9 billion judgement debt. In a press statement, titled “The recent British court order of seizure Nigeria’s foreign assets to satisfy a $9 billion judgement debt:Continue Reading
A bloody clash on Wednesday at Abakpa Main Market in Ebonyo State left one unidentified person dead. The person was allegedly killed by the task force working for the state government for an alleged refusal to pay taxes to the government. The market is located at the centre of theContinue Reading
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted the date for the Bayelsa governorship primary from Thursday, August 29 to Saturday, August 31, 2019. This was contained in a terse statement on Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu. “The party has also adopted the Direct mode of primary inContinue Reading
