The Senate has raised concerns over 1.5 billion dollars approved in 2021 for the turn-around maintenance of the Port Harcourt Refinery with little or no result. Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, Chairman of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Alleged Read more…
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Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has given details of Wednesday’s night invasion of its headquarters, the Labour House, Abuja by armed security operatives. A source said they carried various materials into their vans, claiming that the materials were used to incite Read more…
Men from the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested Michael Lenin, said to be one of the leaders of the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The activist, resident in Apo, was reportedly arrested in his Read more…
The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra has lashed out at the facilitators and purveyors of the “IgboMustGo” campaign in the South-Western part of the country, saying it was high time they convoked a referendum for the Igbo to Read more…
Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday granted bail in the sum of N50 million to two alleged hackers, Timothy Oluwabukola and Anthony Odemerho, who were accused by the police of allegedly hacking into MTN Nigeria Communication Read more…
If the rampant land grabbing in Anambra State is not urgently addressed, it could spiral out of control, creating a situation that no government can manage, stakeholders in the state have warned. According to landlords and land owners both at family Read more…
The Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has expressed concerns at the growing tendency of some people to sow seeds of disunity in the country. Writing against the backdrop of some persons threatening genocide against Read more…
The 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi ii, has decried the enormity of the destruction occasioned by the #EndBadGovernance# protest in Kano State. Speaking with journalists at his palace, Friday evening, the monarch regretted that the protest has reversed the Read more…
AS a result of their continued hostilities, banditry and kidnapping in the South-West zone of the country, the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has again issued a fresh eviction notice to armed Fulani herders in the zone. Read more…
The leader of the Hamas political wing, Ismail Haniyeh, has been assassinated along with one of his bodyguards in Tehran, the Palestinian group and Iranian authorities have confirmed. Hamas was quick to blame the killing on Israel, which has so Read more…
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s move to establish the Unclaimed Balances Trust Fund (UBTF) Pool Account, which will see the transfer of balances in dormant accounts and unclaimed balances to its custody, has sparked widespread reactions in various quarters. From seasoned Read more…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Tuesday, interrogated the Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Jalal Arabi, over alleged mismanagement of the 2024 Hajj exercise funds, among others. Our correspondent gathered that Arabi arrived at the EFCC’s Read more…