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Yahaya Bello, the Kogi Governor who is gunning to be Nigeria’s president in 2023, has criticized the demand by the Southern Governors for the presidency to be zoned to their region.   Speaking in Abuja on Friday, Yahaya, whose presidential campaign posters once flooded the nation’s capital, said the call by the governors was “unconstitutional”. […]

The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja on Friday “ordered the Federal Government to pay journalist Agba Jalingo N30m as compensation for ill-treating and torturing him while in detention in Cross River state.”   The court said, in a judgment, “Agba Jalingo was arrested and chained to a deep freezer for about 34 days without […]

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has given its nod to the promotion of 24 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police, (AIG, it said in a statement.   The PSC however declined promotion of former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Commissioner of Police (CP), […]

The Nigerian government has wielded the big stick against airline operating in the country with a directive that they must refund the full cost of travel tickets to passengers after a two-hour delay.   This directive was given on Thursday by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, at the weekly State House Briefing in Aso […]

The Senate on Thursday began the screening of Lauretta Onochie, an aide of President Muhammadu Buhari, and other nominees for National Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission.   Onochie is President Buhari’s Special Assistant on Social Media. She arrived for her screening in the company of the Special Adviser to the President on National […]

  The Senate on Wednesday approved a request of $6.1 billion by President Muhammadu Buhari.   The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly also passed  a supplementary budget of N982.72bn presented to it by the President.   Approval for the loan followed the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign […]

  Presentation of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificate is not necessary for holding a political office in the country a Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled.   The court made the pronouncement Wednesday as it cleared a former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adosun, of the allegation that she did not […]

The Presidency has defended the security crackdown on Sunday Igboho, the leader of the clamour for Yoruba Nation, as well as what it termed the ‘interception’ of Nnamdi Kanu.   Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was intercepted from a yet to be named country where he travelled to from Britain and repatriated […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered a former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde, to be remanded in prison custody.   Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a ruling on Tuesday, refused a bail application brought by Ojerinde’s counsel,  Peter Olorunnishola (SAN).   Justice Egwuatu instead ordered that […]

The recent pronouncement by the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere; the Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum; the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo; and the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) that they have thrown their weight behind the demand by southern governors for the next president of Nigeria to come from the South, deserves a careful attention […]