Stakeholders from the Niger Delta region have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari faulting the allegation of perjury against the Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, describing the petition as cooked, doctored, fake, frivolous and laughable. Describing it also as an open display of dangerous politics ahead of the 2023. According…
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, October 15, 2021, granted the application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, seeking to discontinue the matter in Suit No. FHC/L/ CS, 1086/2021 involving the N20bn Kogi State Salary bail-out loan. The application, according to the Commission’s counsel,…
Three Major Seminarians, who were abducted by armed persons from the Chapel of the Seminary at Christ the King Major Seminary, Fayit Fadan Kagoma in Jema’a Local Government Area, Kaduna State, on Monday 11 October, 2021 have been released by their abductors. The following is the text of a statement released by the Chancellor, Catholic…
Armed bandits on Monday night attacked Albert Institute of Philosophy/Christ the King Major Seminary, located at Fayit Fadan Kagoma, Southern Kaduna, of Kaduna state. It is reported that the seminary was attacked on Monday night by some yet to be identified gunmen, who took away five seminarians in the process. The gunmen, suspected to be…
Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCG, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday, announced the Nigeria for Nigerians, N4N, movement, saying it is time for Nigerians to take back their nation. He also declared that his state of the nation address will be the last he will deliver in the church. He said this…
2022 BUDGET SPEECH: Budget of Economic Growth and Sustainability Delivered By: His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja, Thursday, October 7, 2021. PROTOCOLS It is my great pleasure to be here once again to present the 2022 Federal Budget Proposals to this distinguished…
Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum David Umahi has decried the degeneration of what started as a cry against marginalisation into violence in the region. Umahi, who is also the Governor of Ebonyi State, said this when he appeared on Channels TV’s breakfast show Sunrise Daily on Wednesday. The governor was speaking about the security…
Okonjo-Iweala has described her purported resignation as WTO DG as fake news. reports that the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has described her alleged resignation last week as fake news. Okonjo-Iweala made the clarification on Tuesday during a virtual media briefing on the updated WTO’s Trade Forecast for 2021 and 2022,…
Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday awarded contracts to connect the two nation’s power grids, in a project that could allow the countries to exchange as much as 3 gigawatts of electrical capacity. Orascom Construction and Hitachi ABB Power Grids will undertake the work in Egypt, while a separate consortium of Hitachi ABB and SSEM will carry out…
Asare Asare, Calabar 13 Brigade of the Nigerian Army are conducting medical outreach in Bakassi LGA of Cross River State. Increasing numbers of persons from mostly Bakassi and nearby Akpabuyo LGAs of the state have already received treatment. Commander of the Brigade, Brigadier General Peter Malla said the medical outreach is part of their corporate…
