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Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, opened on Sunday, after a year of shutdown for rehabilitation following safety concerns the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria.   The airport was shut down on  August 24, 2019, after a series of complaints by Igbo leader who saw the airport as a threat to live because of its poor […]

Two days after Nigeria declared it would no longer tolerate the maltreatment of its national resident in Ghana by the government of that country, Ghana responded on Sunday, defending its actions and blaming Nigeria for taking provocative actions.   Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture had in his statement last Friday listed various […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it is interrogating some directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in connection with N5.474 billion meant for halting the spread of COVID-19 in the region, but was allegedly diverted.    The amount had been voted for the purchase of Personal Protective Equipment […]

Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano State, has said he would not hesitate to sign the execution warrant of the singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death by hanging by an Upper Shari’a Court in the state. Thirty-year-old Aminu was sentenced to death by the Court following his conviction of blasphemous remarks against Prophet Muhammad. […]

Two persons lost their lives and another injured Friday when a helicopter crashed into a building on Salvation Road, Opebi, Ikeja area of Lagos State.   The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said two people died, adding that one person had been admitted into the Intensive Care Unit of the Lagos […]

Over 16,000 people have signed a petition on Change.Org calling on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate All Progressives Congress leader, Bola Tinubu, Punch reported Friday.   The petition, which was started a week ago by Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, had garnered 16, 243 signatures as of 9.30 […]

www.www.aso.rocks search engine can disclose that some aggrieved northern members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) have pulled out of the group; alleging that the legal body is biased.   The lawyers say they have constituted a new group called New Nigerian Bar Association (NNBA), which huhuobline.com understands are sponsored by Gov. Nasir Elrufai of […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced plans to resume the sale of foreign exchange to Bureau de Change operators from Monday, August 31.   In a circular late Thursday signed by O.S. Nnaji, director of trade and exchange department, the bank fixed the rate at which BDCs will sell the dollar to end-users at […]

The Nigerian Government on Thursday shifted the resumption date of international flights in the country to September 5, 2020, from the earlier planned date of August 29, 2020.   At Thursday’s briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Musa Nuhu, declared that international flights would not resume […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved Prof Charles Dokubo of his post as the Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme in the Niger Delta.   Buhari also appointed Col. Milland Dikio (rtd.), as interim administrator of the programme.    Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, announced this on Thursday in a statement […]

Akinwumi Adesina was on Thursday re-elected President of the African Development Bank for the second term of five years.   This comes at the end of a long battle for Nigeria’s former Minister of Agriculture, who was first elected to the post in 2015.   The election was done electronically at AfDB’s virtual annual general […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an end to the practice of estimated billing for electricity consumption in the country through which the power provider rips off consumers.   He has also directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, to commence an immediate direct mass metering of consumers, the regulator said in a tweet.   “In addition, […]