An Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday, ordered a man, Jimoh Falola, to wash public toilets for 30 days for being rude to the court. In his ruling, the President of the court, Chief Henry Agbaje held that Falola Read more…
Month: March 2021
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has faulted the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Wase after a video emerged of him blocking Mark Gbillah, a Benue State lawmaker, from presenting a petition by a diaspora group. Ortom Read more…
THE NATION had reported the controversy started over three weeks ago when officials of Saint Anthony Secondary School prevented Muslim female students from gaining entrance to the school with hijab claiming it is a missionary school. Pandemonium broke out Wednesday in Read more…
•Lauds Nigeria’s COVID-19 response Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has promised that the body will work to reduce export restrictions among member states, especially with regards to medical supplies in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. Read more…
The European Union has written the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the Central Bank of Nigeria’s ban of official foreign exchange for milk import, saying it distorts the balance of payment protocol. The WTO Director General, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala dropped Read more…
The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Communications Commission has announced that Unstructured Supplementary Service Data services for financial transactions will be charged at a flat rate fee of N6.98 per transaction, starting Tuesday. This is according to a Read more…
Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, has been recalled to Moscow for in-person discussions on the country’s ongoing relations with Washington and Joe Biden’s administration, the Foreign Ministry has said. In a statement announcing the envoy’s recall on Wednesday Read more…
Earlier today, the First Female Governor in Nigeria and the Former Governor of Anambra State, Her Excellency Dame Virgy Etiaba OON paid a courtesy call to Prof Joe Ugboaja the A-CMD Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi. Mama Anambra Eulogised Read more…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation has expressed dissatisfaction over the audience granted by Mr. Femi Adesina to some impostors who use the name of Ohanaeze Ndigbo for self gratifications. This was contained in a press statement made available Read more…
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja has threatened to discontinue the trial of Senator Shehu Sani over alleged misrepresentation of proceedings by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Ekwo gave the threat shortly after Sani’s Read more…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Tuesday, says plans were underway to commence oil exploration activities in the Anambra platform and Dahomey Basins. This was even as it said exploration activities were expanded in inland basins covering Gongola, Benue, Read more…
A Cross River-based lawyer, Joseph Bassey Arikpo, on Tuesday, narrated his ordeals in the hands of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ibom Police Station for asking that a detainee in his station be allowed access to his relations. Arikpo Read more…