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It is a difficult task to have to pen a tribute and sing a dirge for a departing soul. It is a more difficult job in our African culture when one is compelled to do so for a younger person. Here am I having the difficult job of singing a dirge for Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, […]

Searchng.ng nigerian search engine understands that the  ailing Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), is dead. He died at the age of 67 after a protracted illness.   Family and top government sources confirmed his demise on Wednesday morning.   The governor died after a protracted battle with an undisclosed illness, though reports said […]

Insists N’Assembly will pass 2023 appropriations bill on Dec. 30   The Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele has revealed that the federal government will, from next year, go after economic saboteurs who made lives difficult and unbearable for Nigerians.   Bamidele, also Chairman of the Southern Senators Forum in the ninth National Assembly, […]

President Bola Tinubu strongly condemns the heinous and brutal attacks in Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State, which resulted in the tragic loss of many lives.   President Tinubu directs security agencies to immediately move in, scour every stretch of the zone, and apprehend the culprits.   The President also directs immediate […]

  The Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu has accused the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, of opening 593 foreign bank accounts without approval of either President Muhammadu Buhari or the apex bank’s board of directors, documents obtained by Daily Trust have shown.   Details in the […]

The Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu to probe the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has summoned the Chairman of Titan Trust Bank (TTB), Tunde Lemo, and two other shareholders of the bank over the controversial acquisition of Union Bank of Nigeria.   This comes after Lemo, a former deputy governor of the CBN, […]

The French parliament has passed legislation prohibiting Nigerian students and others from bringing their families to France.   After a revised version was approved, this measure won backing from President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance party and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally.   The revised immigration policy tightens controls on family reunion, restricts migrants’ access […]

After more than four months of investigation, the Special Investigator probing the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jim Obazee, says former CBN Governor Mr Godwin Emefiele and others embezzled billions of naira and committed other gross financial offences.   According to a report by the online newspaper Premium Times, Obazee’s findings and recommendations were contained in […]

The Federal Government has made good its transportation waiver promise to Nigerians this festive season and has listed participating companies and routes for the scheme.    Solid Minerals Minister Dele Alake in a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday said the presidential intervention of a 50 percent slash on road transport is a demonstration of […]

The Federal Government has appointed 46 new Directors for agencies under the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development.   This is coming a week after the Federal Government sacked Chief Executives of Aviation agencies followed by directors in the ministry.   A statement from the ministry said, “In line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of […]

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said it has slashed public transport fares for Nigerians by 50 per cent. This was disclosed by the Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake, during a press conference on the presidential intervention in public transportation to celebrate the Yuletide season in Abuja, the nation’s capital. According to Alake, the intervention […]

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday, vowed to take disciplinary measures against the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and other members of the PDP who worked against the party at the appropriate time.   PDP National Chairman, Umar Damagum, stated this at a news […]