suspended all flights due to an air traffic control system problem which caused lengthy delays for airline passengers. Incoming flights were diverted to other airports across the county, according to information on the Gatwick website. “We are working with ANS, our air traffic control provider, to rectify this issue as quicklyContinue Reading
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has said that he cannot speak on the decision of the Muhammadu Buhari-led government to drop the prosecution of Gombe Central senator, Danjuma Goje, because he did not have details of the matter. Sagay said this during an interviewContinue Reading
The Adara people in Kajuru local government area of Kaduna State have alleged that the state government did not do enough to handle the killings that claimed lives and unimaginable amount of property in the area. They alleged that from the beginning to the end of the killings, the stateContinue Reading
Senate President Ahmad Lawan says the upper legislative chamber will be in receipt of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list before the end of the week. Lawan said this on the floor of the senate on Wednesday after Albert Bassey, senator representing Akwa Ibom north-east, raised the issue. Bassey said thereContinue Reading
The Nigerian Senate has issued a warning to President Muhammadu Buhari over the delay in the submission of ministerial list. The Red Chamber said the President’s action will not disrupt its planned annual vacation billed to kick off by end of this July. President Buhari took oath of office sixContinue Reading
A federal high court in Lagos has ordered the forfeiture a plot of land in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, belonging to Diezani Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources. Chuka Obiozor, the presiding judge, made the forfeiture order following an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The anti-graftContinue Reading
Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State on Tuesday described Nigeria’s democracy as “embarrassing and insulting”. Ishaku stated this in Jalingo while answering questions from journalists shortly after he received a former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan, who paid him a congratulatory visit at Government House.Continue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has rewarded two senior military officers and a subaltern of the Nigerian Army for gallantry in the fight against insurgency in the North-east as he approved their accelerated promotions. A statement yesterday in Abuja by Army spokesman, Col. Sagir Musa, said the president endorsed the promotion ofContinue Reading
Bola Tinubu, a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to insinuations of him contesting for the presidency in 2023. Tinubu distanced himself from reports of him running for the highest political office in the country in 2023. He made this known while renouncing a group knownContinue Reading
H Ross Perot, a Texas billionaire who ran for the US presidency twice, has died according to a family spokesman. He died early on Tuesday morning, at the age of 89. The statement said: “Ross Perot, the ground-breaking businessman and loving husband, brother, father and grandfather, passed away early TuesdayContinue Reading
