Thursday, 16 May, 2024

Month: July 2023


It is clear from the excellent results for the first half of 2023 that Seplat has put its recent travails behind it, delivering against its strategy despite the distractions faced as a handful of shareholders orchestrated jumped-up allegations against the Read more…


In a significant victory for retired civil servants in Nasarawa State, the Industrial Court sitting in Markurdi, Benue state on Friday has ruled in favor of the pensioners, ordering the immediate disbursement of over One Billion Naira from three commercial Read more…


The Transition Chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Council, Hon. Chris Obiorah, has assured Corp members posted to Nnewi North of their safety as they embark on their one-year mandatory service because the government of Soludo has prioritized security in Read more…


The Ukrainian legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, approved on Thursday a new request from President Vladimir Zelensky to extend the state of martial law and the total mobilization in the country. The emergency measures, first introduced on February 24, 2022, after Read more…


Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, has named Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu as Chairman of the House Committee on Petroleum Resources Downstream. Ugochinyere, who represents Ideato North, South Federal Constituency of Imo State, is among Read more…


Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has described as fake, a photo of him and Finland-based pro-Biafra agitator,  Mr. Simon Ekpa. Expa is the mastermind of several sit-at-home orders in the South-East region,  which had  allegedly resulted in loss Read more…


Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), yesterday, condemned what it called disrespect for judicial process and sanctity of court premises by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, had been granted N20 Read more…


A former senator representing Bauchi North senatorial district, Sen. Adamu Bulkachuwa, has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, the Department of State Services and others of colluding with his political enemies to harass him. Bulkachuwa said Read more…


Members of the dreaded Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have beheaded 27 herders for trespassing in the banned axis of the Kukawa area of Borno State. A counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, told newsmen on Read more…


Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has pledged to pay adequate compensation to families of two policemen who were killed by gunmen at Samek area, near the Ariaria International market, Faulks road, Aba. The gunmen had shot dead the two policemen Read more…


A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Maitama, on Thursday, rejected a fresh application the Department of State Services, DSS, filed for an order to further detain the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Read more…


Russian troops have stopped an “intensive” effort by the Ukrainian military to break their defensive lines near the village of Orekhov in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region. The village and its surroundings have been the scene of fierce fighting for weeks, as Ukraine’s floundering Read more…